Category: 2. Space

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  • how I communicate with spacecraft from the ground

    how I communicate with spacecraft from the ground

    “In this photo, I’m exiting a ground station on top of the Department of Space Science & Engineering at Taiwan’s National Central University, near Taipei. I lead the university’s Upper Air Dynamics Laboratory, where my team and I focus…

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  • Mapping of an early quenched massive galaxy and its neighbourhood

    Mapping of an early quenched massive galaxy and its neighbourhood

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    This is a summary of: Pérez-González, P. G. et al. Accelerated quenching and chemical enhancement of…

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  • ‘Immortal’ stars have an elixir of youth: dark matter

    ‘Immortal’ stars have an elixir of youth: dark matter

    • RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT

    Modelling suggests that annihilation of this strange,…

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  • Two Ultralow-mass-ratio Binary Systems at Critical Evolutionary Stages

    In this paper, we present photometric observations and period analysis of two totally eclipsing binaries with extremely low-amplitude light curves. Both binaries exhibit typical W Ursae Majoris-type light curves with total eclipses, allowing for…

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  • The Multiband Imaging Survey for High-alpha PlanetS (MISHAPS). I. Preliminary Constraints on the Occurrence Rate of Hot Jupiters in 47 Tucanae

    The first generation of transiting planet searches in globular clusters yielded no detections, and in hindsight only placed occurrence rate limits slightly higher than the measured occurrence rate in the higher-metallicity Galactic thick disk. To…

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  • Sorcha: Optimized Solar System Ephemeris Generation

    Sorcha is a solar system survey simulator built for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and future large-scale wide-field surveys. Over the 10 yr survey, the LSST is expected to collect roughly a billion…

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