團(tuán)隊(duì)成員參加星際物理與化學(xué)2017年會(huì)議
向福元教授代表作被太平洋天文學(xué)會(huì)單獨(dú)撰文評(píng)介
湘潭大學(xué)天體物理研究肇始于上個(gè)世紀(jì)九十年代初，由向福元教授發(fā)軔于恒星演化與恒星磁活動(dòng)，篳路藍(lán)縷，會(huì)通開(kāi)新，于本世紀(jì)一十年代相繼延攬楊雪娟博士，現(xiàn)已發(fā)展成為規(guī)模初具、特色鮮明的學(xué)術(shù)團(tuán)隊(duì)。目前，由向福元教授、楊雪娟副教授、張建福副教授、李兆升副教授、胡柯副教授、余云霞副教授、呂銘博士、潘元月博士等組成的團(tuán)隊(duì), 面向國(guó)家和社會(huì)發(fā)展需求，緊密結(jié)合國(guó)家重大研究項(xiàng)目, 在恒星與星際物質(zhì)、超新星遺跡、黑洞與中子星等多領(lǐng)域開(kāi)展研究，取得了國(guó)內(nèi)外矚目的研究成果。
近年來(lái)，該團(tuán)隊(duì)主持國(guó)際“新視野”項(xiàng)目一項(xiàng)（向福元），國(guó)家自然科學(xué)基金項(xiàng)目17項(xiàng)、湖南省自然科學(xué)基金和中國(guó)科學(xué)院重點(diǎn)實(shí)驗(yàn)室基金10余項(xiàng)。在天體物理學(xué)權(quán)威刊物ApJ（美國(guó)天體物理學(xué)雜志）、A&A（歐洲天文學(xué)與天體物理學(xué)雜志）、MNRAS（英國(guó)皇家天文學(xué)月刊）、AJ（美國(guó)天文學(xué)雜志）等發(fā)表SCI論文200多篇，相關(guān)論文被引用一萬(wàn)多次。其中，向福元教授發(fā)表在ApJ上的星際彌散帶論文被太平洋天文學(xué)會(huì)單獨(dú)撰文加以評(píng)介，楊雪娟副教授發(fā)表在ApJ上的星際芳香有機(jī)分子論文被寫(xiě)進(jìn)英國(guó)皇家天文學(xué)會(huì)前主席D.A. Williams所著教材“The Chemistry of Cosmic Dust”，亦被美國(guó)國(guó)家科學(xué)院院士、普林斯頓大學(xué)B.T. Draine教授作為“天體物理學(xué)前沿”教程專(zhuān)題。
The Astrophysics Program at Xiangtan University
The Astrophysics program at Xiangtan University was founded in early 1990s solely by Prof. Fuyuan Xiang, initially focusing on stellar evolution and magnetic activities. For about 20 years, Prof. Xiang was the only astronomy faculty until Dr. Xuejuan Yang were recruited in early 2010s. Thanks to Prof. Xiang and his colleagues’ tireless efforts, the astrophysics program has now undergone substantial growth to have nine faculty: one professor (Fuyuan Xiang), five associate professors (Xuejuan Yang, Jianfu Zhang, Zhaosheng Li, Ke Hu, Yunxia Yu), and two assistant professors (Ming Lyu, Yuanyue pan). To meet the demand of the national and social development and support the national key research projects, the astrophysics group has been performing frontier research in a wide range of topics, including the stellar and interstellar physics, supernova remnants, black holes and neutron stars, and has earned national and international reputation.
In recent years, the astrophysics program has been supported by an international grant (awarded to Fuyuan Xiang) from the “New Horizon” foundation, 17 grants from the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and over 10 grants from Chinese Academy of Sciences and Hunan Province. The astrophysics group has published over 200 papers in top astronomy and astrophysics journals including ApJ, A&A, MNRAS and AJ. These papers have received more than 10,000 citations. Especially, Fuyuan Xiang’s ApJ paper on the diffuse interstellar bands was highlighted by a whole article in “Mercury”, the official magazine of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Xuejuan Yang’s ApJ paper on the interstellar aromatic molecules was discussed in “The Chemistry of Cosmic Dust”, a textbook authored by D.A. Williams, the former president of the Royal Astronomical Society of the United Kingdom. This paper was also selected as a discussion topic in the course “Astrophysical Frontiers” at Princeton University, developed by Prof. B.T. Draine, a member of the National Academy of Sciences of USA.
