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...
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...
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...
In the past 30 years, astronomers have discovered thousands of planets orbiting stars outside the solar system. Most of the exoplanets we know of today orbit stars that will eventually exhaust their n...
Ionized plasmas are ubiquitous in the Universe: from stellar coronae to cosmic web filaments. Characterizing ionized plasmas is critical to address many astrophysical questions, for instance, the inte...