人类在宇宙中是否孤独?行星系统与生命如何交织成和谐乐章?旗舰级航天任务中有哪些重大的基础问题与应用基础问题?在上述问题背景下,我国学者提出“觅音”——宜居行星搜寻计划。通过分阶段实施“觅音”计划,预期...
Dwarf galaxies play a fundamental role in our understanding of galaxy formation and cosmology. The LCDM has been proven successful in reproducing many observational properties, especially at large sca...
The circumgalactic medium and feedback processes significantly affect galaxy evolution and are an interesting and hot topic in contemporary astronomy. I will talk about our recent work on this topic i...
In the Milky Way there exists a significant population of old and metal-rich stars on highly eccentric orbits, most likely born in-situ. It is not 100% clear how this in-situ halo population came abou...
Dark matter halos are approximately virialized condensation of dark matter and serve as the building blocks of large scale structure and galaxy formation. These structures, however, are not fully in e...
At high redshift most of the baryons reside outside galaxies, in an intricated network of sheets, filaments and knots, also known as the Cosmic Web. The direct detection of this large-scale gas struct...
Spicules are rapidly evolving fine-scale jets of magnetized plasma in the solar chromosphere. It remains unclear how these prevalent jets originate from the solar surface and what role they play in he...
The galaxy intrinsic alignment (IA) is both a major source of systematic errors in weak lensing cosmology, and an emerging tracer of the large scale structure of the Universe. Separating IA from weak ...
The link between the intergalactic medium (IGM) and galaxies is a key to understand the evolution of baryonic matter and galaxies. Although several observations have identified the presence of IGM-gal...
Planetary nebulae (PNe) are descendants of the low- and intermediate-mass stars (about 1-8 solar masses), which account for the absolute majority (>90%) of stellar populations in the universe. As an ...