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2023.09.21
Thermal convection in rapidly rotating oblate spheroidal planets
Motivated by its applications to the interior dynamics of planets, the problem of thermal convection in rapidly rotating, self-gravitating fluid bodies has been widely modeled in spheres or spherical shells, which implicitly neglects the flattening effect due to the centrifugal force. However, recent Juno and Cassini missions have measured the gravitational fields of Jupiter and Saturn with ext...
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2023.06.08
Structure and dynamics of the local group galaxies
As the expansion of the universe continues to accelerate, the internal secular evolution of galaxies becomes more important as the distance between galaxies generally increases. The largest galaxies in the local group provide an ideal laboratory due to their proximity to study the secular evolution processes driven by internal dynamical structures, such as a bar and spiral arms. I will review t...
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2023.06.01
Feeding and feedback of the supermassive blackhole in brightest cluster galaxies
The intracluster medium (ICM) is the largest reservoir of the hot baryons. The centers of the ICM often feature a sharp X-ray surface brightness peak. AGN mechanical feedback from the brightest cluster galaxy is likely preventing the hot ICM from the catastrophic cooling, although the exact feedback process remains poorly understood. A growing number of kiloparsec-scale multiphase filaments hav...
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2023.05.25
A multi-band, multi-resolution view of hot Jupiter atmospheres
With the rapidly increasing number of newly discovered exoplanets, the characterization of their atmospheres is becoming the new frontier, crucial for distinguishing between different planetary populations and bearing the imprints of planet formation and evolution. To this end, transit spectroscopy has been the most fruitful technique, revealing the atmospheric species for dozens of exoplanets,...
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2023.05.18
A Minimalistic View of How Galaxies Live, Breathe, and Die
Despite the diversity in the histories of individual galaxies, most of them live slow and die fast. I will firstly introduce a systematic exploration of the galaxy-halo connection, aiming to search for deviations in the spatial distribution of galaxies from the simplest halo model prediction. The null detection paves the way for us to identify the key driver of galaxy quenching within the same...
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