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FarView: An in-situ manufactured lunar far side radio array concept for 21-cm Dark Ages cosmology

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العنوان: FarView: An in-situ manufactured lunar far side radio array concept for 21-cm Dark Ages cosmology
المؤلفون: Polidan, Ronald S., Burns, Jack O., Ignatiev, Alex, Hegedus, Alex, Pober, Jonathan, Mahesh, Nivedita, Chang, Tzu-Ching, Hallinan, Gregg, Ning, Yuhong, Bowman, Judd
المصدر: Advances in Space Research, 74(1), 528-546, (2024-07-01)
بيانات النشر: Elsevier
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Caltech Authors (California Institute of Technology)
الوصف: FarViewis an early-stage concept for a large, low-frequency radio observatory, manufactured in-situ on the lunar far side using metals extracted from the lunar regolith. It consists of 100,000 dipole antennas in compact subarrays distributed over a large area but with empty space between subarrays in a core-halo structure.FarViewcovers a total area of ∼200km2, has a dense core within the inner ∼36km2, and a ∼power-law falloff of antenna density out to ∼14km from the center. With this design, it is relatively easy to identify multiple viable build sites on the lunar far side. The science case forFarViewemphasizes the unique capabilities to probe the unexplored Cosmic Dark Ages – identified by the 2020 Astrophysics Decadal Survey as the discovery area for cosmology.FarViewwill deliver power spectra and tomographic maps tracing the evolution of the Universe from before the birth of the first stars to the beginning of Cosmic Dawn, and potentially provide unique insights into dark matter, early dark energy, neutrino masses, and the physics of inflation. What makesFarViewfeasible and affordable in the timeframe of the 2030s is that it is manufactured in-situ, utilizing space industrial technologies. This in-situ manufacturing architecture utilizes Earth-built equipment that is transported to the lunar surface to extract metals from the regolith and will use those metals to manufacture most of the array components: dipole antennas, power lines, and silicon solar cell power systems. This approach also enables a long functional lifetime, by permitting servicing and repair of the observatory. The full 100,000 dipoleFarView observatory will take 4–8 years to build, depending on the realized performance of the manufacturing elements and the lunar delivery scenario. ; © 2024 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Under a Creative Commonslicense. ; The development of this lunar observatory concept was supported by theNASAInnovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program via grant80NSSC21K0693and internal LUNAR funding. This work was also ...
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
العلاقة: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2024.04.008Test; oai:authors.library.caltech.edu:91kt9-0n449
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2024.04.008
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2024.04.008Test
حقوق: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcodeTest
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.D05BB27E
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