Thu, 2022-09-22 Using 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 pr
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Thu, 2022-09-22 In a Nature paper published on 21 September 2022, the FAST FRB team reported using FAST to monitor FRB 20201124A for about 2 months. They analyzed 1,863 bursts of FRB 20201124A detected by FAST in totally 84-hour observations obtained across 54 days, which is
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Thu, 2022-09-15 On September 15, the winners of the 2022 "XPLORER PRIZE" are announced. Kejia Lee, an Associate Professor at Department of Astronomy and Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University is listed among the 50 awardees this year.
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Mon, 2022-08-08 An international research team led by astronomers from Peking University has identified 204 quasars behind the Galactic plane, 191 of which are new discoveries, using five optical telescopes in China, USA, and Australia. The new research, recently published in
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Fri, 2022-07-22 PKU Astronomy Postdocs Juan Molina and Masafusa Onoue organized a 2 day hackathon on July 19-20 at Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics to learn about data from the powerful new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
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Fri, 2022-07-15 KIAA and DoA hosted Summer Science Day on Thursday, July 14 to discuss recent results. The Science Day featured presentations from 19 different postdoctors and PhD students, on topics that included gravitational waves, fast radio bursts, galaxy formation, and
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Mon, 2022-07-11 Prof. Dong, an assistant professor at the University of Victoria in Canada, is a global leader in research of planet formation. He combines simulations of the observational signatures of planet formation with real observations from leading observatories, incl
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Fri, 2022-07-01 The 2022 Commencement Ceremony of the School of Physics was held in the Centennial Hall of Peking University on June 27. From the Department of Astronomy, 19 students were awarded a bachelor’s degree and 14 students were awarded a PhD. The list of outstandi
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Mon, 2022-06-27 The summer school is mainly for graduate students, senior undergraduates, postdocs and young scholars. Some experts will be invited to talk on CSST data, Extragalactic photometry and image processing, spectral analysis and slitless spectroscopy. Hands-on train
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Fri, 2022-06-17 A team of astronomers, led by Professor Linhua Jiang at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics and School of Physics at Peking University, has revealed that distant quasars or galactic nuclei with actively growing supermassive black holes made a ne
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