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FAST, the Five-hundred meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, will become the largest operating single-dish telescope in the coming years. It has many advantages: much better sensitivity for its largest collecting area; large sky coverage due to its innovative design of the active primary surface; extremely radio quiet from its unique location, etc. In this work, I will highlight the future capabilities of FAST to discover and observe both galactic and extragalactic masers.
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This work was supported by China Ministry of Science and Technology under State Key Development Program for Basic Research (2012CB821800) and the Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos 11043012 and 11178009), the Bureau of Education of Guangzhou Municipality (No. 11 Sui-Jiao-Ke (2009)), Guangdong Province Universities and Colleges Pearl River Scholar Funded Scheme (GDUPS) (2009), and support for Astrophysics Key Subject of Guangzhou City.
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Zhang, J.S. FAST Maser Surveys. J Astrophys Astron 35, 219–222 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12036-014-9198-8
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