发稿时间:2019-11-23浏览次数:232

USTC Astronomy Colloquium Series: 2019 Fall
Mapping the stars, gas and dust in nearby galaxies
李成  教授
清华大学
2019/11/26, 4:00pm , the 19th-floor Observatory Hall
The cosmic star formation rate density has been declining since z~2-3, suggestingthat the cessation of star formation has been the dominating process in galaxyevolution since then. However, it is unclear how the star formation gets quenchedinside the galaxies and what physical mechanisms have been driving this process.Current integral field unit (IFU) surveys such as CALIFA and MaNGA areproviding resolved spectroscopy for large samples of galaxies in the local Universe,allowing the star formation histories across the whole galaxy area to be studiedwith high accuracy. In addition, maps of molecular gas are also being obtained byarrays of radio antenna, thus providing additional data for linking the star formationand gas accretion processes in the IFU era. I'll briefly review previous studies on thesingle-fiber SDSS spectroscopy, and present our recent work based on the CALIFA,MaNGA and CARMA-EDGE surveys, particularly focusing on the roles ofenvironmental effect, dark matter halo, and internal structure and nuclear activity indriving galaxy evolution.
 Dr. Cheng Li is a Professor at Department of Astronomy of Tsinghua University in Beijing. Before he joined Tsinghua in September 2015, he worked as a group leader at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (2010-2015), and a postdoc at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory and Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics (2007-2010). He obtained his PhD from USTC in 2006 and B.Sc. from USTC in 2000. His research has been focused on the structure, formation and evolution of galaxies, as well as the large-scale structure of the Universe. He is a member of the SDSS-IV and Subaru/PFS projects. Currently he is interested in using data from both observational experiments (particularly the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey) and numerical cosmological simulations to understand the physical linkofdifferent classes of galaxies with theirhostingdark matterhalos.