The group consists of 13 staffs, 1 postdoctoral researcher, 2 Ph. D students and 3 M.S. students. It is responsible for the 1.0/1.2 m Schmidt telescope at Xuyi station, which is for NEO survey.

 

　 Research Areas/Expertise:

　 Exoplanetary systems

· Formation and dynamics of exoplanetary systems

· Internal structures of the terrestrial planets

 

　 Planetary physics

·  for Planetary Data System

·  Cosmic impact in solar system, comet, meteoroid stream

·  Dynamical and physical studies for asteroids, NEO hazardous evaluation

 

　 Deep space exploration

·  Scientific objects of exploration for Mars and asteroids

·  Radiation environment for interplanetary space

·  Orbit design for space mission

·  Solar system dynamics and precise ephemeris

 

　 The Schmidt telescope for NEO

·　NEO survey and research

·　Take part in international network for NEO monitoring

·　Establish Asian asteroid observation network

·　Huge amount data processing

 

　  Scientific research projects in recent years

·　NEO astrometry, dynamics and physics research

·　Formation and dynamic evolution of exoplanetary systems

·　Formation of planetary system

·　Dynamics of meteor streams

·　Impact in solar system

·　Orbit dynamics of asteroids and comets

·　Search, Authentication and hazardous evaluation of Celestial bodies

·　Telescope’s huge amount data processing and sharing

·　Charging mechanism research and noise analysis of test mass in drag-free system

·　Search for vulcanoid asteroids when total solar eclipse

·　863-703 project: scientific objectives demonstration in deep space exploration

·　863-703 project: hazardous evaluation and utilization of small celestial bodies

·　863-703 project: compendium and demonstration for “the Eleventh Five-Year Plan” deep space exploration special

·　Research of tasks and technical approaches in China’s deep space exploration mission for CSTIND

·　Solar system celestial body database and deep space exploration presentation environment (celestial body database and orbit dynamics section)

·　Program development of time-space bench and transformation for IERS 2003

·　Prediction of strong meteor shower

·　Target selection of small objects and characteristics of goal

·　Pre-research of single photon altitude instrument

 

Research results

·　 Since 2005, groups published over 60 research papers in field of dynamic evolution of exoplanetary systems, asteroid detection, planetary physics, meteor astronomy, planetary ephemeris and orbital optimization design, most of them for the SCI papers, and gave more than 50 articles report to the international and domestic meetings. Papers have been cited a total of over 200 times in recent years.

·　 Outstanding group in second stage of innovation evaluation in 2005

·　 In 2006, success in telescope test observation and we gained gratifying results. The "top ten technology progress in astronomy"

·　 In 2007, the research of exoplanetary appeared in the "top ten technology progress in astronomy"

 

Telescope observation results:

　 Telescope has been put into test observation for two years, and found more than 500 new asteroids (a Apollo-type near-Earth asteroid) and a Jupiter family comet. We report the asteroid observational data, which have the highest accuracy, to the IAU MPC, and we are the first eight observation station in the world in more than 400 observation stations. Xuyi observation station has been one of the most influential stations in international observation network. There is an exclusive interview with “Preparing for Doomsday” published in American magazine Science (Vol. 319, 2008), and give a detailed introduction on the NEO exploration project in PMO.

 

For more information see: http://ssd.pmo.ac.cn/