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2023.12.20
The three regimes of atmospheric evaporation for super-Earths and sub-Neptunes
A significant fraction of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes are thought to experience an extreme loss of volatiles because of atmospheric evaporation in the early stages of their life. Though the mechanisms behind the extreme mass loss are not fully understood, two contenders have been widely discussed: photoevaporation from X-ray and ultraviolet irradiation and core powered mass loss. In this talk...
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2023.12.15
Bridging the gap between luminous red novae and common envelope evolution with radiation hydrodynamic models
Luminous red novae (LRNe) are relatively new transients that have the luminosity between classic novae and supernovae, initially classified as "gap transients". Even though many more "gap transients" have been observed by telescopes such as ZTF and Keck, their origin and physical processes remain mysterious. To initiate the study of the nature of LRNe, I built a 1D and 2D radiation hydrodynamic...
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2023.11.29
The UV luminosity function at 0.6 < z < 1 from UVCANDELS
UVCANDELS is a HST Cycle-26 Treasury Program awarded 164 orbits of primary ultraviolet (UV) F275W imaging and coordinated parallel optical F435W imaging in four CANDELS fields: GOODS-N, GOODS-S, EGS, and COSMOS, covering a total area of ～426 arcmin^2. This is ～2.7 times larger than the area covered by previous deep-field space UV data combined, reaching a depth of about 27 and 28 ABmag (5 \si...
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2023.11.23
Directly detecting dark matter and neutron stars with gravitational waves
The third observing run of advanced LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA brought unprecedented sensitivity towards a variety of quasi-monochromatic, persistent gravitational-wave signals. Continuous waves allow us to probe not just the canonical asymmetrically rotating neutron stars, but also different forms of dark matter, thus showing the wide-ranging astrophysical implications of using a relatively simple ...
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2023.11.10
Robust detection of the hot phase WHIM emission with eRASS
The highly ionized warm/hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) permeating the vast space of the cosmic filaments is one of the least explored baryon contents in the local Universe. The properties of the WHIM in long cosmic filaments with lengths reaching up to 20-100Mpc, which account for >80% of the total filament volume and 50% of the baryonic mass, remain to be explored. In this work, we examine th...
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