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Gigantic Chinese telescope opens to astronomers worldwide

FAST has superior sensitivity to detect cosmic phenomena, including fast radio bursts and pulsars.
  1. Elizabeth Gibney
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The world’s largest single-dish radio observatory is preparing to open to astronomers around the world, ushering in an era of exquisitely sensitive observations that could help in the hunt for gravitational waves and probe the mysterious fleeting blasts of radiation known as fast radio bursts.

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Nature 574, 16-17 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02790-3

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