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2025.02.28
First Euclid High-z Quasars In the Wide Survey
Luminous high-z quasars provide direct probes of the buildup of supermassive black holes, the primeval massive galaxies hosting them, and the intergalactic medium during the epoch of reionization. Despite its extraordinary capabilities, a significant challenge remains: the lack of quasar samples at redshift larger than 7. The Euclid space telescope offers a promising avenue to enrich our quasar...
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2025.02.27
Probing Active Galactic Nuclei with unprecedented precision — insights from VLTI/GRAVITY(+)
The inner structures of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are essential for probing the fundamental parameters of the central supermassive black hole (BH), understanding accretion physics, and investigating the physical connection between the BH and its host galaxy. The reverberation mapping (RM) technique has been widely used to study the broad-line region (BLR), the dust torus, and the accretion ...
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2025.02.20
What is left for astronomers to do in the era of Artificial Intelligence?
In this area of rapid development of AI, astronomers' work is also evolving. What should we focus in training our students and our computers? In this talk I will present some of my thoughts on the subject and hope the audience will share in the discussion.BIOCharling Tao is an Emerita Director of Research in CNRS CPPM (Centre de Physique de Particules de Marseille) where she co-created the cosm...
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2025.02.18
面向天文观测和深空探测的光电探测技术 [中文报告]
天文及深空科学是主要由实测驱动的学科。观测设备的实测精度和能力的显著提高会大大促进人类对宇宙的认知，包括21世纪所面临的几个重大挑战包括暗物质、暗能量研究，高红移宇宙，以及外行星和生命起源。这些重大科学问题的攻克、前沿研究的突破性进展，已经越来越依赖于观测设备能力的不断提升，包括提高观测的灵敏度、谱分辨率、时间分辨率、角分辨率以及拓展波段覆盖区域。这些观测设备就需要功能强大性能卓越的焦面仪器系统...
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2025.01.10
The Misty and Mysterious Low Surface Brightness Universe Imaged by Dragonfly
The faint, diffuse side of the Universe is largely unexplored, with numerous interesting low surface brightness (LSB) phenomena awaiting to be mapped and understood. With state-of-the-art instruments such as Euclid, Rubin and Roman, we are starting to access a wealth of unprecedentedly deep datasets that are ideally suited for LSB science in the next decade. To fully unlock the potential of the...
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