科学研究
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2021.03.31
Stormy weather on brown dwarfs and isolated young giant planets
Brown dwarfs and relatively isolated young extrasolar giant planets occupy an important parameter space to understand planetary atmospheres. Recent observations of these worlds have provided unprecede...
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2021.03.25
Analytical Solution of Magnetically Dominated Astrophysical Jets and Winds: Jet Launching, Acceleration, and Collimation
Jets/winds are ubiquitously in association with different celestial objects. However, most of previous theoretical studies of them rely on numerical calculations, not being able to provide a more conv...
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2021.03.18
Recent Progress in Understanding Tidal Disruption Events
When a star falls sufficiently close to a supermassive black hole, it is disrupted by the enormous tidal forces and then the debris feeds a sudden burst of accretion. Such tidal disruption events (TDE...
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2021.03.16
A new vocabulary for patterns and its cosmological applications, or, a CNN without training
Textures and patterns are ubiquitous in astronomical data but challenging to quantify. The speaker will present a novel statistical tool, called the “scattering transform”. It borrows ideas from con...
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2021.03.11
Highlights of Recent Results from Insight-HXMT: China's 1st X-ray Astronomy Satellite
Insight-HXMT is China’s first X-ray astronomy satellite and was successfully launched on June 15th, 2017. It carries three sets of collimated X-ray instruments with large effective areas, covering en...
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