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...
Gravitational waves (GWs) from binary neutron stars (BNSs) offer valuable understanding of the nature of compact objects and hadronic matter. However, the analyses accompanied require massive computational power due to the difficulties in Bayesian stochastic sampling. The third-generation (3G) GW detectors are expected to detect BNS signals with significantly extended signal duration, detection...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is transforming our understanding on galaxy formation and evolution, revealing distant galaxies deep into the epoch of reionization and uncovering red sources that were simply unknown pre-JWST. In this talk, I will discuss two key areas, with a focus on the challenges in modeling the spectral energy distributions in the JWST era. First, a central science go...
The variations in the size of galaxies, and consequently, the formation of Low Surface Brighntess Galaxies (LSBGs) could be followed from one of two different effects: variations in the spin parameter of the halo (λ) or variations in the density of dark matter halos (McGaugh 2021). We test both scenarios by employing a simulated sample of galaxies drawn from the TNG100 run of the IllustrisTNG ...
Numerical integrations of Kepler-like tightly packed planetary systems show that they are chaotic, with fairly short Lyapunov times, but that they can be stable against planet-planet or planet-star collisions for billions of years. Recent work by Petit et al. showed that this behavior was due to the overlap of three-body mean motion resonances. Caleb Lammers, Sam Hadden and I recently showed th...