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2024.12.04

Imaging Giant Planet Formation [EN]

<p>The new generation of infrared high-contrast imagers and sub-mm interferometer has been revolutionising our view of planet formation for the last decade. Protoplanetary discs have now been imaged at a high level of detail, revealing a wealth of structures including cavities, annular gaps, spiral arms, shadows and asymmetries. In order to connect these structures to forming planets and provide t...</p>

2024.12.04

Emulating Extended Lyman Alpha Halos Around Star-Forming Galaxies [EN]

<p>The detection of the extended Lyman-alpha emission (or Lyman-alpha halos) around star-forming galaxies opens a new window for probing the circum-galactic medium (CGM) at high redshifts. With IFU observations (e.g., through MUSE), we are already capable of measuring the spatially resolved Lya spectra around individual galaxies, revealing a diverse population of the Lya emission. However, interpr...</p>

2024.11.27

Five parameters are all you need [EN]

<p>The standard cosmological model (ΛCDM) relies on six free parameters, five of which have direct cosmological origins, while the sixth, the optical depth (τ), is an ad hoc parameter used to model the scattering effects experienced by cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons. CMB photons decoupled from the primordial plasma at z ~ 1100 when neutral hydrogen formed, reducing the abundance of fr...</p>

2024.11.29

The research of dark matter halos with galaxy-galaxy lensing method

<p>In the standard LambdaCDM cosmological framework, cosmic structures grow through a hierarchical process. As fundamental building blocks of the dark matter universe, halos are believed to follow a self-similar structure distribution. Thus, we could stacking the weak lensing signal of multiple halos with the galaxy-galaxy lensing (gglens) method, and obtain the average profile of halos. (A.) With...</p>

2024.11.22

On the Role of Structural Bimodality on Galaxy Quenching in Local Universe [EN]

<p>Observations have shown that the termination of the star-forming activity in galaxies (quenching of star formation) is closely related to the structure of the galaxies, in the sense that passive galaxies tend to possess more compact structure. The surface mass density in the core region effectively describes the compactness of galaxies, and therefore have served to be one of the most sensitive ...</p>

2024.11.20

Estimating and Studying Dust Attenuation From Galactic Spectra [EN]

<p>In the past few years, we develop a method to estimate the dust attenuation curve of galaxies from full optical spectral fitting. One important advantage of this method is that the estimated dust attenuation curve is independent of the shape of theoretical dust attenuation curves. Based on the method, we investigate the dust attenuation in both stellar populations and ionized gas in kpc-scale r...</p>

2024.11.21

On the Formation, Evolution and the Environment of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies [EN]

<p>The variations in the size of galaxies, and consequently, the formation of Low Surface Brighntess Galaxies (LSBGs) could be followed from one of two different effects: variations in the spin parameter of the halo (λ) or variations in the density of dark matter halos (McGaugh 2021). We test both scenarios by employing a simulated sample of galaxies drawn from the TNG100 run of the IllustrisTNG ...</p>

2024.11.14

Highlights of the MeerTime Key Science Project with MeerKAT [EN]

<p>Using a novel new teaching tool that uses a game engine to create an interactive astronomy universe Professor Matthew Bailes will talk about the highlights of the MeerTime program at MeerKAT. These include the discovery and timing of many new pulsars in globular clusters, giant pulse studies, many new pulsar masses, insights from the eclipses of the double pulsar and a tantalising Hellings and ...</p>

2024.11.15

Halo Responses to Baryonic Mechanisms at Small Scale [EN]

<p>The Voids-within-Voids-within-Voids (VVV) project developed a series of extremely high-resolution N-body simulations to study haloes over the entire range of ΛCDM halo masses, from Earth mass to the largest clusters. In this talk, I will present our latest results about how baryons could modify these results for haloes with masses between 10^4 and 10^7 M_sun, below the threshold for galaxy for...</p>

2024.11.13

Two Bridges in Galaxy Ecosystem: Star – InterStellar Medium Interaction and Observation – Theory Connection [EN]

<p>The increasing sophistication of research and data quality has revealed a complex interplay between the internal and external environments of galaxies. While galaxies are demonstrably connected to their cosmic ecosystems, their interiors are also comprised of diverse components with intricate interactions, forming a &quot;galaxy ecosystem&quot;. Stars and the interstellar medium (ISM) are two crucial con...</p>