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Mon, 2024-04-29On 26 April 2024, the opening ceremony of the "Peking University 60-centimetre Telescope and Astronomy Teaching Practice Base" was held at the Xinglong Observatory of the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Mon, 2024-04-29KIAA announces an advancement in cosmic exploration with the release of the CatNorth quasar candidate catalog, as recently published in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. The international collaborative study, led by Dr. Yuming Fu and Prof. Xue-Bing Wu, presents an enhanced set of over 1.5 million reliable quasar candidates, building upon the initial Gaia DR3 quasar candidate catalog noted for its substantial size but low purity.
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Mon, 2024-04-08An international research team led by Gregory Desvignes from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, used the Effelsberg and Jodrell Bank radio telescopes to observe the precessing magnetar XTE J1810-197 — a highly magnetised and ultra-dense neutron star — shortly after its X-ray enhanced activity and radio reactivation. The study was co-authored by Dr. Yong Gao and Professor Lijing Shao from the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University. This precession damped on a timescale of a few months challenging some models used to explain the origin of the mysterious repeating fast radio bursts.
The results are published in this week’s issue of Nature Astronomy.
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Tue, 2024-03-12Combining ALMA observations and single-dish observations including Atacama Pathfinder Experiment telescope (APEX) in Chile and James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii, Fengwei Xu, a fourth-year Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Ke Wang at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University, proposed a comprehensive evolutionary picture of how massive protoclusters are assembled. The series of works have been accepted for publication by Monthly Notice of the Royal Astronomical Society and The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.
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Fri, 2024-03-01On 29 February 2024, the Signing Ceremony of the Peking University (PKU)- China West Normal University (CWNU) Expandable Aperture Segmented Telescope (EAST) Project Collaboration Agreement and the Workshop on the Scientific Objectives of EAST were held at KIAA.
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Fri, 2024-01-19On January 18, 2024, the summary meeting of the "Galaxies and Quasars" NSFC Innovative Research Group Project was held at KIAA. More than 40 leaders, experts, project members and faculty from NSFC, PKU, and other universities and institutes attended the meeting.
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Fri, 2023-12-08On December 6, 2023, NAOC and KIAA signed a Collaboration Agreement to strengthen research ties. The Signing Ceremony and first meeting of the Advisory Expert Group were both held at NAOC.
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Mon, 2024-01-08The 2023 Annual Conference on Molecular Clouds and Star Formation (SF2023) was held in Chongqing during October 26-31, 2023. The conference was hosted by KIAA at Peking University, and co-hosted by Chongqing University and Chongqing Astronomical Society.
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Thu, 2023-11-09An international team of astronomers using the Canada-France-Hawaiʻi Telescope (CFHT), Gemini North telescope (Gemini North), Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and Case Western Reserve University's Burrell Schmidt Telescope, have captured the eroding remains of more than 100 galaxies in an elusive state of transformation. These findings confirm that some of the densest galaxies in the Universe, dubbed “ultra-compact dwarfs” (UCDs) are likely the fossil remains of normal dwarf galaxies that have been stripped of their outer layers. The results were reported in a recent article, entitled, “An evolutionary continuum from nucleated dwarf galaxies to star clusters,” and was published on 9 November 2023 in the journal Nature. This research was led by Kaxiang Wang, a Ph.D. student at Peking University, and Eric Peng, a former professor at PKU.
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Tue, 2023-09-19In order to express our gratitude to Dr. Shu Qi’s strong support to PKU astronomy, KIAA decided to rename the newly renovated first meeting room as the Shu Qi Meeting Room.
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