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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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Mon, 2020-05-04 Yingjie Peng(彭影杰), Assistant Professor at KIAA, Peking University, was interviewed by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Journals.
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Fri, 2020-04-10 Lijing Shao, Assistant Professor of the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University, was invited to the Advisory Panel of Classical and Quantum Gravity.
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Mon, 2020-01-13 Gregory Herczeg, Associate Professor at Peking University and Associate Director for Science of the KIAA, was appointed as the newest Science Editor for the AAS Journals, which includes the flagship Astrophysical Journal.
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