團隊成員參加星際物理與化學2017年會議
向福元教授代表作被太平洋天文學會單獨撰文評介
湘潭大學天體物理研究肇始于上個世紀九十年代初，由向福元教授發軔于恒星演化與恒星磁活動，篳路藍縷，會通開新，于本世紀一十年代相繼延攬楊雪娟博士，現已發展成為規模初具、特色鮮明的學術團隊。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隊, 面向國家和社會發展需求，緊密結合國家重大研究項目, 在恒星與星際物質、超新星遺跡、黑洞與中子星等多領域開展研究，取得了國內外矚目的研究成果。
近年來，該團隊主持國際“新視野”項目一項（向福元），國家自然科學基金項目17項、湖南省自然科學基金和中國科學院重點實驗室基金10余項。在天體物理學權威刊物ApJ（美國天體物理學雜志）、A&A（歐洲天文學與天體物理學雜志）、MNRAS（英國皇家天文學月刊）、AJ（美國天文學雜志）等發表SCI論文200多篇，相關論文被引用一萬多次。其中，向福元教授發表在ApJ上的星際彌散帶論文被太平洋天文學會單獨撰文加以評介，楊雪娟副教授發表在ApJ上的星際芳香有機分子論文被寫進英國皇家天文學會前主席D.A. Williams所著教材“The Chemistry of Cosmic Dust”，亦被美國國家科學院院士、普林斯頓大學B.T. Draine教授作為“天體物理學前沿”教程專題。
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.
