科学研究
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2021.06.10
Probing stellar initial mass function with CNO isotopes
All measurements of cosmic star formation must assume the stellar initial mass function (IMF) to extrapolate from the star-formation rate (SFR) measured for massive stars to the total SFR. Traditional...
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2021.06.03
1000 days Around the Earth - the Planets discovered by TESS
Since the launch of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) three years ago, the exoplanet field had a new boom of discoveries. In this talk, the speaker will review the main exoplanet result...
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2021.05.27
Discovering other Earths while sustaining our unique home in the Cosmos
Observations show that exoplanets are ubiquitous. For the first time, we have the technological capability to discover planets with similar bulk properties to Earth by monitoring the radial-velocity o...
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2021.05.20
Chaos and the time-reversibility paradox
During the Great Plague of London in 1965, Isaac Newton went for a 2 year quarantene in his home in Woolsthorpe, where he layed down the faundation of his later theories on calculus, optics and the la...
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2021.05.18
Testing General Relativity with black hole X-ray data: recent progress and future developments
The theory of General Relativity has successfully passed a large number of observational tests. The theory has been extensively tested in the weak-field regime with experiments in the Solar System and...
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