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Former PhD Student at PKU awarded 2019 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in AstrophysicsThu, 2019-04-25 On April 24th 2019, Siyao Xu（徐思遥）was awarded the 2019 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in Astrophysics. This award was established by the Division of Astrophysics (DAP) of the American Physical Society (APS) and is funded by Heising-S |
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An X-ray transient as New Signal of Neutron Star MergersWed, 2019-04-17 A bright X-ray burst within a galaxy 6.6 billion light years from Earth has been detected by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. This event is likely to be the emission from a neutron-star-merger-produced magnetar – a new, heavier, highly magnetized neutron st |
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Discoveries by Dong and Jiang awarded as top-10 Achievements in Chinese Astronomy in 2018Fri, 2019-04-12 |
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Former PhD Student Feige Wang Awarded the 2019 Hubble FellowFri, 2019-04-12 . |
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Vice President of the Kavli Foundation Kevin Moses visits KIAA, meets with Vice President of Peking University Dr. GaFri, 2019-03-22 |
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An intuitive 3D map of the Galactic warp’s precession traced by classical CepheidsTue, 2019-02-05 Astronomers from KIAA-PKU and National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences have used 1339 ‘standard’ stars to map the real shape of our home galaxy in a paper published in Nature Astronomy. |
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Gregory J. Herczeg Awarded Peking University Friendship AwardFri, 2018-12-28 . |
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A Team in KIAA Joined the KAGRA Gravitational-Wave Scientific CollaborationWed, 2018-12-19 Three members, Lijing Shao (leader), Kohei Inayoshi and Yong Gao (1st-year PhD) have joined the KAGRA collaboration. |
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Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Astrophysics visited KIAATue, 2018-12-11 Prof. Mats Carlsson visited KIAA on December 10, 2018. Prof. Carlsson is a well-known solar physicist from the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway. He is a Fellow of Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (NASL) and a Fellow of |
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Unknown Treasure Trove of Planets Found Hiding in DustThu, 2018-12-06 "Super-Earths" and Neptune-sized planets could be forming around young stars in much greater numbers than scientists thought, new research by an international collaboration of astronomers suggests. |
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