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An intuitive 3D map of the Galactic warp’s precession traced by classical CepheidsTue, 2019-02-05 Astronomers 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, 2018-12-19 Three members, Lijing Shao (leader), Kohei Inayoshi and Yong Gao (1st-year PhD) have joined the KAGRA collaboration. |
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Chair of the Kavli Prize Committee in Astrophysics visited KIAATue, 2018-12-11 Prof. Mats Carlsson visited KIAA on December 10, 2018. Prof. Carlsson is a well-known solar physicist from the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway. He is a Fellow of Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (NASL) and a Fellow of |
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Unknown Treasure Trove of Planets Found Hiding in DustThu, 2018-12-06 "Super-Earths" and Neptune-sized planets could be forming around young stars in much greater numbers than scientists thought, new research by an international collaboration of astronomers suggests. |
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The 2018 KIAA-PKU Astrophysics Forum Held at KIAAWed, 2018-12-05 The 2018 KIAA-PKU Astrophysics Forum was held on Dec. 3-4, 2018 with the topic “China’s Future Ground-Based Astronomical Facilities”. More than 100 participants attended the forum. |
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A Monograph of Pulsar Physics by PKU-AstronomersSun, 2018-11-25 Recently, a monograph titled Pulsar Physics has just been published by Peking University Press in Chinese. The authors (Xinji Wu, Guojun Qiao and Renxin Xu) are three astronomers from Peking University. |
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PKING (PKU-KIAA Innovation NSFC Group) Project Held its Kick-off MeetingWed, 2018-11-14 On November 12, 2018, the kick-off meeting of the PKING (PKU-KIAA Innovation NSFC Group) project was held at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA), Peking University, with the goal of introducing an overview of the project and launching its |
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3 Postdocs Won the 64th China Postdoctoral Science General GrantTue, 2018-11-13 The awardees at KIAA and DoA take 3 out of 10 in the field of astronomy in China. |
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Astronomers Unveil Growing Black Holes in Colliding GalaxiesFri, 2018-11-09 A team of researchers led by Michael Koss (Eureka Scientific Inc.), and including Claudio Ricci, long-term visiting professor at KIAA, performed the largest survey of the cores of nearby galaxies in near-infrared light, using high-resolution images taken by NA |
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