<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>
<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>
<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>
<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>
<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 "galaxy ecosystem". Stars and the interstellar medium (ISM) are two crucial con...</p>
<p>Numerical integrations of Kepler-like tightly packed planetary systems show that they are chaotic, with fairly short Lyapunov times, but that they can be stable against planet-planet or planet-star collisions for billions of years. Recent work by Petit et al. showed that this behavior was due to the overlap of three-body mean motion resonances. Caleb Lammers, Sam Hadden and I recently showed th...</p>
<p>Massive galaxies usually observed as symmetric stellar motions and can be fitted well by the commonly used symmetric dynamical models. However, the stellar kinematics of many low-mass galaxies typically contain lots of small patches, causing the stellar second moment of velocity distribution to be non-smooth in small-scales and far from symmetry, we call these patches kinematical small-scale fl...</p>
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<p>Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are indispensable components of galaxy ecosystems. Their origin, growth, and feedback to the host galaxies are among the most fundamental questions in galaxy formation. In this talk, I will introduce a theoretical framework that coherently describes the formation of SMBHs from their seeding epoch to the present within the cosmological context. I will show that t...</p>
<p>QPE(Quasi Periodic Eruptions) is new type of X-ray transient event first observed in 2018. It's characterized by the periodic X-ray outbursts in contrast to its quiescent radiation. One of the proposed model for QPE events involves a secondary body orbiting around the central massive black hole, generating periodic flares as the mass of the secondary object accretes onto the BH. These systems ...</p>