Research
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2023.05.12
The Evolution of All Stable Isotopes within Galaxies Across Cosmic Time
In the past decade, Galactic Chemical Evolution (GCE) has flourished due to surveys like Gaia, LAMOST, and Galex, which have enabled detailed investigations of stellar abundances. Stellar nucleosynthesis has also made strides in calculating both stable and radioactive isotopes, including the heavy isotopes produced by rapid neutron-capture (r-process). However, the astrophysical sources of r-p...
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2023.05.11
Physical Mechanisms Regulating Gas Supply to Galaxies
I will first present an overview of the problem of galaxy formation. I will then turn my attention to some important and robust physical mechanisms that regulate the supply of cold gas to galaxies. I will in the end try to convey the message that the field of galaxy formation simulation would benefit by turning to more physics, rather than parameter, based approach, through exploring additional...
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2023.05.11
Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies lacking dark matter: from properties to formation
The formation of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) is not well-understood. UDGs have large sizes (several kpc) for their dwarf-galaxy-like stellar mass and have a wide range in dark matter content and other observed properties. In particular, NGC1052-DF2 and NGC1052-DF4 are two puzzling UDGs: they have low-velocity dispersions indicating little to no dark matter content, as well as overly luminous ...
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2023.05.10
A dynamical model and structure decomposition of barred galaxies
Galaxy structures are fossil records of their assembly history. Modern IFU spectrographs offer the ability to map the spatial distribution of the motions, ages, and chemical abundances of stars in galaxies, which provide unprecedented detailed view of galaxies structures. But the information are still blended along the line-of-sight. Decomposition of galactic structures in a physical way is cha...
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2023.05.10
cosmological tests on fundamental physics
The precision measurements from current observational cosmology have established the Lambda-Cold-Dark-Matter (LCDM) model as the standard cosmological model. However, the LCDM model as a pure phenomenological model with six base parameters still calls for a theoretical understanding of underlying mechanisms for the early and late accelerations as well as the nature of dark matter. In this talk,...
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