Since the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the universe in the 2000, dark matter and dark energy have been the main drivers of research in observational cosmology. At the same time, gravitational lensing, boosted by the Hubble Space Telescope observations, has become a key probe of the dark sector. In this talk, I will review this topic and focus on my research in Euclid and in DESI. I...
The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) opens a new window to map magnetic fields in regions of freshly accelerated high-energy particles. By capturing the first spatially resolved X-ray polarization images of supernova remnants—including Cassiopeia A, Tycho, SN 1006, Vela Jr., RX J1713.7−3946, and RCW 86—IXPE probes the turbulent magnetic fields shaped by the Galaxy’s fastest shocks....
The Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) 80cm infrared telescope is designed for near-infrared time-domain observations. It’s primary scientific objectives include follow-up of transients such as supernovae, gamma-ray burst afterglows, tidal disruption events, and monitoring of brown dwarfs, AGNs and variable stars. The telescope has an 80cm diameter with f/8, and is capable of observing in J and K b...
Host: Hui L
Using the data from the Spitzer Space Telescope in the Deep HSC fields, we have found a mysterious population of objects that are detected at SNR>5 in the 3-5 micron (IRAC ch1 and ch2) but are either very red with Y-ch1>3.5 or totally invisible in the much deeper optical. Their median magnitudes are 23.95 and 23.68 AB in ch1 and ch2, respectively; 6% of the objects are also detected in IRAC ch3...