ZHOU Xia
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Professional: 
Doctoral Supervisor
Director of Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, CAS
Education:
2006-2009 Central China Normal University Ph.D.
2003-2006 Central China Normal University M.S.
1999-2003 Central China Normal University B.S.
Contact:
E-mail: zhouxia@xao.ac.cn
Postal Address: 150 Science 1-Street, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830011, China
Research Interests:
Pulsar, Neutron Star, Equation of state, Gravitational wave, FRB
Selected Publications:
- Xia Zhou*, Abdusattar Kurban, Wen-Tong Liu, Na Wang, Ya-Jing Yuan, Nature of Ultralong Period Radio Transients: Could They Be Strange Dwarf Pulsars? 2025, ApJ, 986, 98.
- Xia Zhou*, Hai-Tao Huang, Quan Chen, Xiao-Ping Zheng, Formation of long-period radio pulsars, 2024, MNRAS, 530, 1636.
- Yu-Bin Wang , Xia Zhou*, Abdusattar Kurban,Fa-Yin Wang, Bounding the Photon Mass with Ultrawide Bandwidth Pulsar Timing Data and Dedispersed Pulses of Fast Radio Bursts, 2024, ApJ , 965, 38.
- Yu-Bin Wang, Abdusattar Kurban, Xia Zhou*, Yun-Wei Yu, Na Wang, Statistical properties and lensing effect on the repeating fast radio burst FRB 180916.J0158+65, 2023, MNRAS, 524, 569.
- Hai-tao Huang,Xia Zhou*, Jian-ping Yuan, Xiao-Ping Zheng, Timing and evolution of PSR B0950+08, 2022, MNRAS, 512, 4689.
- Xia Zhou, Ang Li*, Bao-An Li, R-mode Stability of GW190814’s Secondary Component as a Supermassive and Superfast Pulsar,2021, ApJ, 910, 62.
- Yu-Bin Wang, Xia Zhou*, Na Wang, Xiong-Wei Liu,The r-mode instabilitywindows of strange stars,Research in Astronomy andAstrophysics, 2019,19(2), 30.
- En-Ping Zhou, Xia Zhou, Ang Li*, Constraints on interquark interactionparameters with GW170817 in a binary strange star scenario, Phys. Rev.D, 2018,97, 083015.
- Xia Zhou*, Hao Tong, Cui Zhu, Na Wang, Dependence of pulsar death lineon the equation of state, MNRAS, 2017, 472(2): 2403-2409.
- Cui Zhu, Xia Zhou*, Na Wang, Rotational energy conversion and thermalevolution of neutron stars, Chinese Physics C, 2017, 41(12), 125104.