[HN Gopher] China's FAST telescope reveals unprecedented details...
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       China's FAST telescope reveals unprecedented details of Milky Way
       (2022)
        
       Author : xrayarx
       Score  : 113 points
       Date   : 2023-02-20 08:16 UTC (14 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (english.news.cn)
 (TXT) w3m dump (english.news.cn)
        
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       | trvz wrote:
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         | natpalmer1776 wrote:
         | I would imagine (purely speculation) that anything of substance
         | coming from chinese research institutions would be kept from
         | western circulation, or at the very least heavily altered or
         | redacted to retain any competitive advantage the research might
         | possibly have.
         | 
         | Given how 'vertically integrated' the government is with the
         | entire economy, it would make sense to see similar behavior
         | from them as you would a corporate entity. The odd whitepaper
         | may surface saying "We have this cool new thing" but technical
         | details necessary to _implement_ that cool new thing will be
         | sparse or missing entirely. Everything is kept under lock and
         | key as trade secrets.
        
           | qikInNdOutReply wrote:
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             | natpalmer1776 wrote:
             | Sure that's possible, but the problem lies in the fact that
             | to the casual outside observer the two situations are
             | indistinguishable.
             | 
             | Any party with the resources and cause to dig deeper than
             | that (e.g. national agency) will usually also have their
             | interests aligned in keeping any discovered knowledge of
             | chinese proficiency a secret from the layman.
        
       | SiempreViernes wrote:
       | Man, I wish the Chinese were better at publishing their results!
       | We just get two low resolution images and there isn't even a
       | title of the article this was supposedly published in :(
       | 
       | I tried scanning through the issues from this year of "Science
       | China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy" but nothing looked like it
       | was an actual FAST result paper (only one mentioned FAST in the
       | title, and that was an instrumentation paper).
       | 
       | Funny to see that "Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy"
       | is actually an English language Springer publication, as the
       | title makes it sound like something they'd put out locally.
        
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         | defrost wrote:
         | Peering into the Milky Way by FAST: I + II + III + IV
         | 
         | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11433-022-2040-8
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         | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11433-022-2039-8
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         | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11433-022-2033-2
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         | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11433-022-2031-7
        
           | perihelions wrote:
           | https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11299 ( _" I. Exquisite HI
           | structures in the inner Galactic disk from the piggyback line
           | observations of the FAST GPPS survey"_)
           | 
           | https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11301 ( _" II. Ionized gas in the
           | inner Galactic disk revealed by the piggyback line
           | observations of the FAST GPPS survey"_)
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           | https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11302 ( _" III. Magnetic fields in
           | the Galactic halo and farther spiral arms revealed by the
           | Faraday effect of faint pulsars"_)
           | 
           | https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11408 ( _" IV. Identification of
           | two new Galactic supernova remnants G203.1+6.6 and
           | G206.7+5.9"_)
        
             | loa_observer wrote:
             | Thanks!!!!!!!!!
        
             | defrost wrote:
             | Nice one!
             | 
             | I looked to Sci-Hub and forgot about the obvious - thanks
             | for adding in downloadable links and full titles.
        
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