科学研究
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2024.08.23
Role of dark matter halo angular momentum distribution on bar formation, evolution and dynamical friction
In this study, we investigated the role of the inner halo's angular momentum distribution on bar formation and evolution processes. We performed a series of high-resolution N-body experiments with Milky Way-type disk galaxies. These models were initiated with similar disks but with varying inner halo angular momentum in the surrounding dark matter halo. The bar triggered earlier in the model wi...
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2024.08.19
Beyond Summary Statistics: Leveraging Generative Models for Field-Level Weak Lensing Analysis
Current and future weak lensing surveys contain significant information about our universe. However, their optimal cosmological analysis is challenging, with traditional analyses often resulting in information loss due to reliance on summary statistics like two-point functions. While deep learning methods offer promise in capturing the complex non-linear features of these cosmological fields, t...
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2024.08.16
Unveiling the Milky Way Dust Extinction Curve in 3D
Despite the vital importance of interstellar dust to many areas of astronomy, its composition and properties are highly uncertain. The dust extinction curve (the relation of extinction vs. wavelength) depends on both the grain-size distribution and the chemistry of the dust, and is therefore a probe of dust properties. The dust extinction curve is typically characterized by R(V) ≡ A(V)/E(B − ...
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2024.07.08
Damping Obliquities of Hot Jupiter Hosts by Resonance Locking
When orbiting hotter stars, hot Jupiters are often highly inclined relative to their host star equator planes. By contrast, hot Jupiters orbiting cooler stars are more aligned. Prior attempts to explain this correlation between stellar obliquity and effective temperature have proven problematic. We show how resonance locking—the coupling of the planet's orbit to a stellar gravity mode (g-mode)...
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2024.07.03
Exoplanet atmospheres with high-resolution spectroscopy: chemistry, isotopes, and dynamics
Exoplanet atmospheres with imprints from their history open an important avenue to trace the origin and evolution of planets. With high-dispersion spectroscopy, we can resolve atomic and molecular spectral features into unique forests of lines that serve as fingerprints for identifying different species and probing structures and dynamics of exoplanet atmospheres. I will talk about high-resolut...
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