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3 Postdocs Won China Postdoctoral Science GrantTue, 2019-05-07Dohyeong Kim, Kai Wang and Ravi Joshi. |
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Former PhD Student at PKU awarded 2019 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in AstrophysicsThu, 2019-04-25 |
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An X-ray transient as New Signal of Neutron Star MergersWed, 2019-04-17A 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 star. It is a totally new signal from neutron star binary mergers, which suggests that the merger of two neutron stars could result in a long lived neutron star rather than a black hole. |
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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....Fri, 2019-03-22 |
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An intuitive 3D map of the Galactic warp’s precession traced by classical CepheidsTue, 2019-02-05Astronomers 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, 2018-12-19Three members, Lijing Shao (leader), Kohei Inayoshi and Yong Gao (1st-year PhD) have joined the KAGRA collaboration. |
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KIAA Work Shift in Winter BreakMon, 2018-12-17 |
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