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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2021.03.16
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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2021.01.12
High-resolution spectroscopy of ionized plasmas in the Universe
Ionized plasmas are ubiquitous in the Universe: from stellar coronae to cosmic web filaments. Characterizing ionized plasmas is critical to address many astrophysical questions, for instance, the inte...
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2021.01.11
The radio-bright future of studying black holes
In recent years we witnessed tremendous progress in high frequency very long baseline radiointerferometry (VLBI). These developments were most notably marked by the first image of a supermassive black...
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2021.01.08
Bridging the Gap Between Galaxy and Star Formation with Star Clusters
Over the past decades, the discovery of a large number of young massive clusters (YMCs) in the local Universe and giant clumps in high-z galaxies suggests that clustered star formation is the dominant...
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