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Welcome to my home page! 

I study the hot universe, mostly the interstellar and intergalactic media with temperatures of million degrees or so. Here you can have an overview of my astronomical research

Current brief CV

Current and Recent Projects

  • Galactic center
  • The hot interstellar medium
    • X-ray absorption line spectroscopy of diffuse hot gas, using Chandra/XMM-Newton grating and FUSE far-UV spectra.
    • CCD imaging with Suzaku
  • Supernova  remnants and superbubbles
    • DA 530 (Chandra and Suzaku observations)
    • Radio and X-ray study of the Crab-like SNR G54.1+0.3
    • Deep (300 ks) Chandra study of starforming region N11 in the LMC (in collaboration with Y.-H. Chu et al.)

Students and Postdocs

  • Graduate students: Hui Dong, Shikui Tang, Roger Ledgister, David Welch, Seth Johnson
  • Graduate students in Nanjing University: Jiangtao Li, Zhaoyu Zuo, and Bing Jiang
  • Postdoc: Jiren Liu
  • Former Students and Postdocs

Selected recent talks