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Division of Antarctic Astronomy Radio Astronomy
  • Center for Antarctic Astronomy
  • Galaxy Cosmology and Dark Energy
  • Star Formation in Galaxies
  • Molecular Clouds and Star Formation
  • Galaxy formation and wide field survey
  • High energy time-domain astronomy
  • Research of molecular gas in the Milky Way
  • Cosmology with the SKA
  • Laboratory for Millimeter & Sub-Millimeter Wave
  • Astronomical Telescope Technology Laboratory(ATTL)
  • Star Formation in Galaxies

      The star Formation in Galaxies (SFIG) Research Group at Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was founded in 2006 that conducts multi-wavebands research on the star-forming galaxies near and far including the Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) in the Galaxy. Our research interests are:

    • Massive star formation and GMCs in our Milky Way, nearby galaxies, and high redshift star-forming galaxies;

    • Nature of luminous and ultraluminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs and ULIRGs), starbursts and interacting galaxies, and also AGNs/QSOs;

    • Infrared, submillimeter/millimeter, radio and X-ray observations of the GMCs, formation of massive stars and star-forming galaxies;

    • Evolution of galaxies.

      The recent research highlights of our group include discovering a tight linear correlation between far-infrared (FIR) and HCN line luminosity over ten orders of magnitude from basic units of star formation in the GMC cores to ultraluminous infrared galhttp://explore.china-vo.org/axies and high-redshift galaxies. Dr. Yu Gao, our group leader, was invited in 2008 to present an article named “Astronomy: Starbursts near and far” for the “News and Views” column of 'Nature'.

    Currently, the SFIG Group has 5 faculty members,  and 9 graduate students. Plenty of observation time was obtained from many telescopes, such as VLA, IRAM 30m, CARMA, SMA, JCMT, ALMA, NOEMA etc, by our group members, or in collaboration with the space telescopes, namely, Spitzer, Chandra and Herschel.

      In the near future, the SFIG Group will continue to better understand the star formation in various galaxy environments using advanced multi-wave telescopes around the global including national large facilities LAMOST, FAST and future Antarctic Dome-A projects.

     
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