Host: Cheng Zha
Host: Song Huan
In the standard formation models of terrestrial planets in the solar system and close-in super-Earths recently discovered by exoplanet observations, planets are formed by giant impacts of protoplanets or planetary embryos after the dispersal of protoplanetary disk gas in the final stage. This study aims to clarify a fundamental scaling law for the orbital architecture of planetary systems forme...
Host: Junjie Ma
AGN feedback is widely invoked to regulate hot gas in galaxies and clusters, yet most existing models remain phenomenological and lack predictive power. I will present results from the MACER framework, a physically grounded model that self-consistently links black hole accretion to radiative and mechanical feedback. Across both cluster and galactic scales, MACER achieves predictive, parameter-f...
Galactic microlensing is the only known method for detecting dark objects ranging from isolated stellar-mass black holes (BHs) to low-mass free-floating planets (FFPs). Our success in the interferometric resolution of microlensed images with the VLTI has opened a new avenue for identifying isolated stellar remnants. I will discuss how VLTI-GRAVITY+ can potentially discover a large sample of BHs...
The detection and study of potentially habitable exoplanets is a cutting-edge topic in contemporary astronomy. The National Medium- and Long-Term Development Plan for Space Science (2024–2050) has been officially released, identifying “Nearby Habitable Exoplanets” as one of its key scientific frontiers. The Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey (CHES) (http://www.ps.pmo.cas.cn/CHES/)) aims to s...
Dust grains are fundamental constituents of diffuse matter throughout the universe, mediating key processes from interstellar chemistry to planet formation. Yet their microscopic behaviors, presumably governed by interactions at surfaces, has traditionally been treated through empirical and semi-quantitative prescriptions in most astrophysical models. In this report, we present a series of bott...
Globular clusters are massive star clusters that formed in high-redshift galaxies and remained gravitationally bound until the present. They serve as tracers of most active episodes of galactic star formation and allow us to reconstruct the assembly history of the Milky Way and nearby galaxies. I will describe a long-term program to model the formation and disruption of globular clusters throug...
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration, high-energy radio transients of unknown origin, whose large dispersion measures indicate extragalactic, and possibly cosmological, distances. With the rapid advancement of radio telescope capabilities, the number of detected FRBs has increased dramatically, greatly advancing studies of their physical origins and cosmological applications. Howev...