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Study of central control system for FAST

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FAST(The Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope) is an under-building radio telescope which will be the largest single dish in the world. Through the study of the central control system, in accordance with the actual operation of the telescope and observation process, this article introduces the physical models for engineers and observers, the central control system architecture design, basic support modules and the necessary interfaces. We simulated observation control process and telescopes monitoring and control process, and took Active Reflector System as a subsystem example to complete the control system design and implementation using EPICS (Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System). The Central control system, with active reflector systems, feed supporting system has been taken to an integration test at Miyun model. In the case of the normal operation of the various sub-systems of the Miyun model by the central control system, a coordinated control is achieved.

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We acknowledge the financial support from FAST project under contract No: FASTHT-013-2011-CK-004, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, National Natural Science Funds of China under Grant No: 11178020, 11275197, The CAS Special Grant for Postgraduate Research, Innovation and Practice.

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  1. Anhui Key Laboratory of Physical Electronics, Modern Physics Department, University of Science and Technology of China, State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China

    Jian Wang, Ming-Cheng Luo, Wen-Qing Wu, Jia-Jing Liu, Peng-Yi Tang & Ge Jin

  2. National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China

    Li-Chun Zhu

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Wang, J., Luo, MC., Wu, WQ. et al. Study of central control system for FAST. Exp Astron 36, 569–589 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-013-9345-2

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