Our Lunch Talk of this week will be given by Dr. Zhixiong Liang(梁智雄) at 11:00AM Thursday(Apr. 18th) in the 19th-floor Observatory Hall (天文台报告厅).

The title of the talk is "A magnetar-powered X-ray transient as the aftermath of a binary neutron-star merger".

This is a work published in Nature, leaded by Prof. Yongquan Xue. Here is the web link,https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1079-5

Dr. Liang is a post-doctoral research fellow of our department.