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2021.03.25
Analytical Solution of Magnetically Dominated Astrophysical Jets and Winds: Jet Launching, Acceleration, and Collimation
Jets/winds are ubiquitously in association with different celestial objects. However, most of previous theoretical studies of them rely on numerical calculations, not being able to provide a more conv...
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2021.03.18
Recent Progress in Understanding Tidal Disruption Events
When a star falls sufficiently close to a supermassive black hole, it is disrupted by the enormous tidal forces and then the debris feeds a sudden burst of accretion. Such tidal disruption events (TDE...
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2021.03.16
A new vocabulary for patterns and its cosmological applications, or, a CNN without training
Textures and patterns are ubiquitous in astronomical data but challenging to quantify. The speaker will present a novel statistical tool, called the “scattering transform”. It borrows ideas from con...
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2021.03.11
Highlights of Recent Results from Insight-HXMT: China's 1st X-ray Astronomy Satellite
Insight-HXMT is China’s first X-ray astronomy satellite and was successfully launched on June 15th, 2017. It carries three sets of collimated X-ray instruments with large effective areas, covering en...
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2021.03.04
Reverberation mapping black hole accretion flows
Sitting at the heart of nearly all galaxies is a massive black hole, that, while typically 1000 times less massive than the galaxy in which it resides, has the potential to release enough energy via a...
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