Professional:
Research Professor,
Master Supervisor
Education:
2013-2019: Ph.D. in Applied Physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
2011-2013: M.S. in Astrophysics, Purple Mountain Observatory, China
2006-2010: B.S. in Physics, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Contact:
yangxu@xao.ac.cn
Research Interests:
Observational solar physics, solar observation instrumentation and data processing methods, solar eruption, small-scale magnetic reconnections in solar lower atmosphere.
Selected Publications:
1.Liu, Yangyu., Shen, Jinhua., Yang, Xu.*, Gu, Shuai., Li, Jianping., Ji, Haisheng, 2026-04, Bidirectional Plasma Jets Driven by Magnetic Reconnection: Observations by GST and SDO, ApJ, Vol. 1001, No. 2, p. 214-223
2.Yang, Xu., Cao, Wenda., Wang, Meiqi., Jennings, Don., Qiu, Jiong., He,Wen., Perriyil,Solomon. M., Yurchyshyn, Vasyl., Fletcher, Lyndsay., Simões, Paulo J. A., Jhabvala, Murzy., Lunsford,Allen., Chen, Xingyao., Hudson, Hugh., 2025-07, High-resolution Observations of an X6.4 Solar Flare in the Mid-infrared , ApJ Letters, Vol. 988, No. 2, p. L56-65
3.Yang, Xu.*, Wang, Meiqi., Cao, Andrew., Ji, Kaifan., Yurchyshyn, Vasyl., Qiu, Jiong., Yu, Sijie., Shen, Jinhua., Cao, Wenda, 2025-01, High-resolution Observations of an X-1.0 White-light Flare with Moving Flare Ribbons, ApJ Letters, Vol. 979, No. 2, p. L43-51
4.Yang, Xu.*, Cao, Wenda., Yurchyshyn, Vasyl., 2022-10, GST Data-processing Workflow: Image Registration and Alignment, ApJ Supplementary Series, Vol. 262, No. 2, p. 55-65
5.Yang, Xu.*, Cao, Wenda., Ji, Haisheng., Hashim, Parida., Shen, Jinhua, 2019-08, High-resolution Spectroscopic Imaging of Counter-streaming Motions in Solar Active Region Magnetic Loops, ApJ Letters, Vol. 881, No. 1, p. L25-32
6.Yang, Xu.*, Yurchyshyn, Vasyl., Ahn, Kwangsu., Penn, Matt., Cao, Wenda, 2019-11, Light Bridge Brightening and Plasma Ejection Driven by a Magnetic Flux Emergence Event, ApJ, Vol. 886, No. 1, p. 64-75
7.Xu, Yan., Yang, Xu., Kerr, Graham S., Polito, Vanessa., Sadykov, Viacheslav M., Jing, Ju., Cao, Wenda., Wang, Haimin, 2022-01, Multi-passband Observations of a Solar Flare over the He I 10830 Å line, ApJ Letters, Vol. 924, No. 1, p. L18-23
8.Yurchyshyn, Vasyl., Yang, Xu., Nita, Gelu., Fleishman, Gregory., Abramenko, Valentina., Inoue, Satoshi., Lim, Eun-Kyung., Cao, Wenda., 2022-04, Magnetic Field Re-configuration Associated With a Slow Rise Eruptive X1.2 Flare in NOAA Active Region 11944, FASS, Vol. 9
9.Li, Dong., Yang, Xu., Bai, Xianyong., Su, Jiangtao., Ning, Zongjun., Cao, Wenda., Deng, Yuanyong., 2020-10, oppler shift oscillations of a sunspot detected by CYRA and IRIS, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 642, id.A231, 8 pp
10.Yang, Xu.*, Cao, Wenda., Gorceix, Nicolas., Plymate, Claude., Shumoko, Sergey., Bai, XianYong., Penn, Matt., Ayres, Thomas., Coulter, Roy., Goode, Philip R., 2020-12, CYRA: the cryogenic infrared spectrograph for the Goode Solar Telescope in Big Bear, SPIE, Vol. 11447, p. 213-223
