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Mon, 2023-06-19In an article in Nature Astronomy published on June 19, a team of international astronomers, led by Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) and Kavli Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University (PKU/KIAA), reported the highest resolution images ever obtained of the wind from one of these disks. The physical scale of 3.5 AU is small enough to measure the physics in regions where terrestrial planets form. Interpreting the images with state-of-the-art simulations led to surprising results that alter our view of the physics that determines how disks evolve.
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Mon, 2023-05-29Dr. Kai Wang and five other presenters from other institutes were selected for best oral presentations at the 25th Chinese Astronomical Society Guoshoujing Symposium on Galaxies and Cosmology.
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Sun, 2023-05-07A one-day workshop on the topic of compact objects and gravitational waves was recently held on 2023 April 19. Over 30 undergraduates, PhDs, postdocs and faculty members participated in the event, with a special guest, Prof. Ian Jones, visiting from the University of Southampton,UK.
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Thu, 2023-04-20Luis C. Ho, Director of KIAA and Chair Professor of Peking University, has been elected as a new member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).
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Fri, 2023-03-24The postdoc science day was held on Wednesday, Mar. 22. This annual event provides an opportunity for postdocs to communicate their research interests, recent advances, and future plans, while also promoting discussions and potential collaborations among postdocs in different research fields.
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Mon, 2023-02-20Dr. Jiang obtained his PhD from Yale University in 2016. He was a Troesh Scholar at California Institute of Technology and a Joint Theory Fellow at the Carnegie Observatories from 2020 to 2023, and an Israeli Planning-and-Budget-Committee Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 2016 to 2019.
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Mon, 2023-01-09Peking University PhD student Zhuokai Liu won the inaugural Vision of Science contest, awarded by the Kavli Foundation to five images from researchers at the 20 Kavli Institutes.
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Tue, 2022-12-13Recently, Peking University PhD student Jinping Zhu, advised by Prof. Zhuo Li, showed that a peculiar class of long-lasting gamma-ray bursts, like GRB 211211, which lack bright supernova counterparts but are associated with candidate kilonova, can indeed originate from black hole-neutron star mergers. Most long-duration gamma-ray bursts (duration longer than about 2 seconds) are typically thought to be derived from core collapses of massive stars, which produce also bright supernovae.
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Mon, 2022-10-31This fellowship is awarded to Prof. Shao for his contributions in proposing new tests of gravity theories, leading to significant advances in our understanding of the fundamental physical laws.
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Thu, 2022-09-22Using a simple gravity model that breaks Lorentz symmetry in the Standard-Model Extension framework, Rui Xu, Yong Gao, and Lijing Shao from KIAA, found an imprint that deviates from the prediction of general relativity (GR) in the continuous GWs from freely precessing, rapidly rotating neutron stars.
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