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Dec 22, 2020

Evidence for Dense Gas heated by the Explosion in Orion KL

Orion Kleinmann-Low (Orion KL) nebula is the nearest massive star-forming region. An explosion occurred in this nebula about 550 years ago. The explosion not only accelerated several young stars, but also produced spectacular high veloci...
Dec 17, 2020

Inception Workshop for the Cooperation Project of the 1.9-m Optical Telescope

From 12th to 13th December 2020, “The Inception Workshop on the Cooperation Project of the 1.9-m Optical Telescope” was held at the Nanshan Station of XAO. The project will be jointly conducted by four parties, including the Beijing No...
Dec 07, 2020

Progress in pulsar timing studies at Nanshan

Using the pulsar timing data of the 26-m radio telescope (NSRT) at Nanshan, the researchers of pulsar group of Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory have obtained more accurate rotation parameters, braking indices and glitches for 87 pulsars...
Dec 03, 2020

Parametric Evolution of Power-law Energy Spectra of Flare Accelerated Electrons in the Solar Atmosphere

During a solar flare event, a tremendous amount of the stored magnetic energy is suddenly released and partly transferred into the accelerated particles. It is well known that solar hard X-ray bursts (HXRs) and solar radio bursts (SRBs) ...
Nov 30, 2020

Study investigates mode switching phenomenon in the pulsar PSR J1326-6700

The averaged polarization profiles of normal (left) and abnormal (right) modes for PSR J1326-6700 at 1369 MHz. Credit: Wen et al., 2020.Using the Parkes 64-meter radio telescope, Chinese astronomers have performed a detailed study of a p...
Nov 30, 2020

Inner jet of the blazar PKS 1749+096 investigated in detail

BSMEM images of PKS 1749+096 in August 2011 and July 2014. For each image, contours start at 0.5 percent of the peak brightness in steps of two. Credit: Cui et al., 2020.Using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), astronomers have perform...

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