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Fri, 2020-09-25 On September 25, the winners of the 2020 "XPLORER PRIZE" are announced. Subo Dong, an Associate Professor at KIAA is listed among the 50 awardees this year.
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Thu, 2020-09-24 Astronomers have found that the key to understanding galaxies with "extreme" sizes, either small or large, may lie in their surroundings. In two related studies, an international team found that galaxies that are either "ultra-compact" or "ultra-diffuse" relat
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Thu, 2020-08-06 "This new study is a great example of how flexibility in observation scheduling allows NASA and ESA missions to study objects that evolve relatively quickly and look for longer-term changes in their average behavior," said Michael Loewenstein, a coauthor of th
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Sat, 2020-06-27 Astronomers have discovered the second most distant quasar ever found, using the international Gemini Observatory and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), Programs of NSF’s NOIRLab. It is also the first quasar to receive an indigenous Hawaiian name
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Thu, 2020-06-18 In June 2020, a new Max Planck Partner Group is established, headed by Prof. Lijing Shao at KIAA.
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Tue, 2020-06-09 Dr. Anupam Bhardwaj was selected as one of the two 2020 recipients of the Gruber Fellowship, sponsored by The Gruber Foundation and the International Astronomical Union.
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Tue, 2020-06-02 Within a hierarchically evolving Universe, binary black holes (BBHs) are expected to form through galaxy mergers. How these BBHs merge is, however, still under debate. Xian Chen and collaborators show that Poynting–Robertson (PR) drag, a radiative process who
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Fri, 2020-05-29 The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics for 2020 to Andrew Fabian (University of Cambridge, UK).
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Wed, 2020-05-06 Prof. Gregory Herczeg was named Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), one of three Extremely Large Telescopes planned for the next generation of optical/infrared telescopes.
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Mon, 2020-05-04 Mon, 2020-05-04Using state-of-the-art radiation-hydrodynamic simulations, KIAA postdoctoral fellow Dr. Yu Qiu and collaborators proposed a new framework for cold gas filament formation, shedding light on how cold gas exists immersed in the hot, X-ray-emitting
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