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Our recent paper on the Z8338 cluster is featured on the Chandra image release, link 1 and 2.
Dr. Sun is hiring one new postdoc. Contact me if interested.
We have one FAST proposal approved in priority A in the 2024 call (PI: Sun).
Dr. Sun's 2023 NSF/AAG proposal was approved, with a matching grant for the Czech collaborator in Czech!
We have one XRISM proposal in priority C approved in 2024 (PI: Sun).
We have one ALMA proposal approved in priority C in cycle 11 (7.2 hrs 12m + 20.5 hrs ACA, PI: Tamhane).
Dr. Sun has one HST GO proposal (6 orbits) approved in cycle 32 as the PI.
Dr. Sun has one ESO/MUSE proposal approved in P114 as the science PI.
Our new paper on X-ray cool core remnants has been published.
Dr. Sun was awarded Research Excellence Award of 2024 in College of Science at the UAH
Dr. Sun's HST data were featured in the ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week series five times in 2024, July 29, Apr. 29, Mar 11, Mar 4 and Feb 19.
Dr. Sun has one new XMM proposal approved in AO-23 in Dec. 2023 as the PI, 51 ks in B and 52 ks in C
Our new paper on spectacular detached tails has been published.
We welcome Dr. Juhi Tiwari and Dr. Prathamesh Tamhane to join Dr. Sun's group as new postdocs!
We have one MeerKAT proposal approved in the 2023 open time call (37.5 hours on the Coma cluster, PI: Romana Grossova)
We have one Chandra proposal (A3017 for 168 ks, PI: Sun) approved in cycle 25 in 2023.
Our new paper on the HST data of ESO 137-001 has been published.
Our new paper with the full MUSE mosaic of ESO 137-001 has been published.
Dr. Sun's HST data featured in the ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week series (the original selection came from the work by my previous RCEU student Andrew Guilory).
Dr. Sun was awarded 5 hours with DECam/Blanco from NOIRLab to have a deep Halpha survey of the Norma cluster.
Dr. Sun will give an invited talk in the "The X-ray Universe 2023" conference in June 2023 at Athens, Greece.
Dr. Sun attended "The 5th XRISM Science Meeting & XRISM core-to-core Multiwavelength Workshop 2022" in Dec. 2022 in Tsukuba, Japan.
Dr. Sun is hiring two new postdocs (can work on XRISM, Chandra, XMM, ALMA, MeerKAT, HST, MUSE, SOFIA and all the exciting multi-wavelength data)! Contact me if interested.
Dr. Sun has three new XMM proposals approved in AO-22 in Nov. 2022 as the PI: one priority B + two in priority C (259 ksec in total)
Dr. Sun was selected as one of the XRISM guest scientists to join the NGC 4636 team!
We were granted 15 hours of the MeerKAT time (PI: Sun) on its 2022 open time call.
Dr. Sun has been promoted to Full Professor since August 2022.
We have two Chandra proposals (PI: Sun) approved in cycle 24 in 2022 (one joint with HST and another joint with HST+VLA).
We have one HST archival proposal to study M87 (PI: Sun) approved in cycle 30 in 2022.
Check our new review paper on ram pressure stripping.
A paper on the spectacular central galaxy of A407 published on MNRAS.
Molecular gas detected in the A1367 orphan cloud!
Our new paper on the correlation between hot and warm gas in stripped tails (Sun et al. 2021) is published on Nature Astronomy.
A paper led by my graduate student Sunil Laudari is now published on MNRAS (Laudari et al. 2022).
Dr. Sun is a co-I of a recently approved XMM large proposal on galaxy groups (PI: Dominique Eckert).
Our group has four new XMM proposals approved in AO-21 in Dec. 2021 (one in priority B + three in priority C).
Our review paper on Ram Pressure Stripping (to be published on The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review) is now posted on arXiv (Boselli, Fossati & Sun 2022)
Our new paper on the long X-ray tail + extension associated with the Blue Infall Group (BIG) in A1367 is published on MNRAS (Ge, Sun et al. 2021).
Our ALMA large proposal in cycle 8 (ALMA JELLY) is approved (PI: Jachym; co-PI: Sun) with 61 hours of 12m time + 314 hours of 7m time!
Four new Chandra proposals approved in cycle 23 in July 2021!
Our new paper on an X-ray/Halpha isolated cloud in A1367 published on MNRAS (Ge, Luo, Sun et al. 2021) --- see the ESA image release & UAH release, followed by many websites, including Sky & Telescope.
Dr. Sun's SOFIA proposal in cycle 9 was approved (data all taken by Jan. 2022).
Our group has four new XMM proposals approved in AO-20 in Dec. 2020 (all in priority C).
Our new paper on the intriguing merging cluster Abell 2256 (shocks, cold fronts, radio halo and relic), with the deep Chandra and XMM data, is now published on MNRAS (Ge, Liu, Sun et al. 2020).
Our new paper on the radio continuum and HI tails behind RPS galaxies in the Coma cluster (also with the deepest 1.4 GHz image on Coma) is published on MNRAS (Chen, Sun et al. 2020).
Our new paper on AGN feedback in one FR-II galaxy is published on MNRAS.
Three proposals approved in XMM AO-19 (one B & two C)
One proposal approved in Chandra cycle 20 (PI: Sun)
Our 3C88 paper was featured in the CfA weekly science highlight
ESO 137-001 was featured for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
Dr. Sun's Chandra CCT proposal approved and this 1st observation has been finished as the 1st cluster CAT target.
Dr. Sun joined the US XMM user group.
Dr. Sun will be a tenured, associate professor from Aug., 2018.
Dr. Sun appears on Science chat for the STROBE-X mission
Tim Edge is selected for the 2018 CoS Undergraduate Department Achievement Award.
Dr. Sun is selected as the recipient of the UAH 2018 College of Science Outstanding Faculty Member Award.
Two proposals approved in XMM cycle 17, 94 ks A time, 73 ks B time and 38 ks C time (PI: Sun)
Two Chandra proposals approved from my group (I: archive, PI: Morandi; II: GO, 130 ks, PI: Ge)
One HST proposal approved for five orbits (PI: Sun)
Dr. Sun was awarded one NSF/AAG grant on AGN feedback and galaxy evolution.
Dr. Sun received an extension on the NASA Alabama EPSCoR RID grant in 2017
Dr. Sun is one of the organizers of this new EWASS 2017 Symposium "Ram pressure stripping and galaxy evolution" in Prague at the end of June of 2017.
A665 image now featured in the 2016 Chandra Archive Collection (Sarthak's paper)
Dr. Sun joined the X-ray Surveyor Science and Technology Definition Team: Evolution of Structure and AGN populations & Physics of Plasmas
Dr. Sun will give the first talk (an invited review talk on local galaxy groups) in this conference in Paris
Dr. Sun will give an invited colloquium at the U of Minnesota
Sample of Chandra ClustErs with Robust Shocks (SoCCERS) launched (update soon) !
Four approved ALMA proposals in cy4 (one A + two B + one C, co-I: Sun)
Three approved Chandra proposals in cycle 18: one GO (80 ks) + one archive (PI: Sun) + one archive (PI: Morandi)
Our CFHT large project for a Halpha survey of the Virgo cluster approved for 50 nights ! (PI: Alessandro Boselli; Dr. Sun is one of the 43 co-Is and one of the two US co-Is)
One priority A PdBI proposal (lead co-I: Sun)
Andrea's paper to constrain dark energy featured for a NASA press release, also covered locally
Sarthak awarded an Alabama Commission on Higher Education Graduate Research Fellowship
Sarthak's paper on a strong Mpc shock in A665 accepted by ApJL in 10 days! The discovery will be followed by NuStar for 200 ks.
Our ATCA proposal to study AGN feedback on a southern cluster has been approved (PI: Sun) for 22 hours
Sarthak's paper on 3C89 accepted by MNRAS
Andrea's paper to constrain dark energy with cluster outskirts has been accepted by MNRAS
Dr. Sun was awarded a 2016 NASA Alabama EPSCoR RID seed grant
Sarthak won the 1st prize of the 8th Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium Student Poster Competition !
Sarthak's story featured on Gemini !
New results on an ultra-massive black hole from IRAM-30m & PdBI
Two ALMA proposals approved in cycle 3 (one B + one C)
Both Andrea and Sarthak will talk in the IAU XXIX General Assembly in Hawaii on Aug. 5, 2015
Two approved Chandra proposals in cycle 17 (PI: Sun, 245 ks Chandra + 3 orbits of HST + 23 hr VLA)
Dr. Sun was selected as a NASA endorsed member of the Athena Study Science Team Working Groups (Athena is a next-generation X-ray telescope).
10 hours with one of the largest radio telescope arrays in the world , GMRT, 28_021 (PI: Sun)
Andrea's 1st paper on a large sample of 320 clusters has been accepted! More work to come!
Dr. Sun was invited for a review talk on galaxy groups in this conference.
2.8 hr priority A time with one of the biggest optical telescopes in the world ! ESO P95 time with VLT/MUSE (PI: Sun)
Two proposals approved in XMM cycle 14 ! proposal I: 36 ks A time + 92 ks B time + 23 ks C time (PI: Sun); proposal II: 69 ks B time (PI: Morandi)
A successful LMT proposal on Perseus !
Two successful IRAM-30m proposals (lead co-I: Sun) and one PdBI proposal (lead co-I: Sun)
A priority C proposal approved in NRAO 2015A, 23 hours (PI: Sun)
Dr. Sun gave an invited review talk on galaxies in this conference.
One approved Chandra cycle 16 proposal for 182 ks (PI: Sun) + over 500 ks co-I time (co-I: Sun)
Dr. Ming Sun
Professor
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Department of Physics & Astronomy
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville, AL 35899
USA
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