08.20.2025: The Chandra X-ray Center shares a collection of highlights from the Cycle 27 GO program: Discovery Awaits! which includes our large program on NGC3079 and uses an image of Jiangtao Li's Chandra press release on this galaxy.

08.19-20.2025: Jiangtao Li attended the workshop on the 14.5m telescope, and give a talk on CGM/IGM studies with giant ground-based optical telescopes.

08.15.2025: Jiangtao Li's student Rui Huang's EP large program on NGC3079 (300ks, Jiangtao is a co-I) has been approved as Priority B! Congratulations, Rui!

08.05.2025: Jing Wang's FAST priority and large program FLOWER (Jiangtao is a co-I) has been approved for 500 hours. 

07.30.2025: Jiangtao Li's student Rui Huang's Chandra large program on NGC3079 (500ks, plus 24 hours joint VLA time; Jiangtao is a co-I) has been approved! Congratulations, Rui!

07.10.2025: Jiangtao Li has been invited to serve as a committee member of the QUEST telescope of Qinghai University.

07.09.2025: ELT/MOSAIC phase B1 completed!

07.03.2025: Jiangtao Li's graduate student Normahmad Normahmedov has been approved for a CAS international visiting student program and will start visiting Jiangtao's group again in Sep. 2025.

06.16.2025: Our group has been allocated two weeks of MDM 1.3m observation time and one week of MDM 2.4m observation time in 2025B.

06.12-14.2025: Jiangtao Li attended the 2025 HUBS workshop in Yanqing, Beijing, and gave a talk on the hot CGM. 

05.25.2025: Jiangtao Li's group took some Magellan/IFUM observations.

05.20-05.27.2025: Jiangtao Li took some observations with the CHαS group at the MDM 2.4m, and visited the University of Arizona.

05.19.2025: Jiangtao Li's graduate student Huiyang Mao's 2025B TAP proposal (Jiangtao is a co-I) has been approved and allocated 1 night of P200/TripleSPEC time.

05.15.2025: Volker Heesen's CHANG-ES Paper XXXVI (Jiangtao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by A&A.

05.13.2025: Jiangtao Li's previous postdoc Yang Yang's GBT proposal (Jiangtao is a co-I) has been awarded 37.25 hours observation time in 2025B. Congratulations, Yang!

05.06.2025: Jiangtao Li took some Magellan/FourStar observations.

05.02.2025: ELT/MOSAIC's Specification & Architecture Review (SAR) is completed. This marks the end of Phase B1 and launches the new Phase B2.

03.21.2025: Xiaodi Yu's HIERACHY Paper III (Jiangtao is a co-author and one of the two corresponding authors) has been accepted for publication by ApJ.

03.21.2025: We (Jiangtao is a co-I, PI is Bregman) obtain two nights with Magellan/IFUM and FourStar respectively in 2025A to observe a high-z strong absorber.

03.10.2025: Michael Stein's CHANG-ES Paper XXXIV (Jiangtao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by A&A.

03.04.2025: Jiangsu Shuangchuang team program led by Prof. Yi Zhang (Jiangtao is a key member) has been approved.

03.03.2025: Jiangtao Li has been awarded six months funding to visit foreign institutes.

03.03.2025: Jiangtao Li started visiting the University of Michigan.

02.28.2025: Jiangtao Li's PhD student Yan Jiang has successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations to Dr. Jiang!

12.13.2024: Our CO-CHANGES Paper II led by Jiangtao Li's graduate student Yan Jiang (Jiangtao is the corresponding author) has been accepted for publication by A&A.

12.12.2024: Jiangtao Li's AO-24 XMM-Newton proposal on NGC4438 has been approved for 140ks as Priority C. 

12.09-10.2024: Jiangtao Li visited Hebei Normal University and gave two talks on optical telescopes.

12.06.2024: Jiangtao Li's graduate student Liyuan Lu (jointly supervised with Prof. Taotao Fang at Xiamen University) has successfully defended his PhD thesis at Xiamen University. Congratulations, Dr. Lu! See photos here.

11.18.2024: Jiangtao Li's student Jianghui Xu's CHANGES Paper XXXV on VLA S-band observations of NGC 3556 (Jiangtao is the corresponding author) has been accepted for publication by ApJ. 

11.15-18.2024: Jiangtao Li attended the Symposium on Galaxy Evolution and Cosmology with the China Space Station Telescope in Suzhou, and gives a talk introducing the HIERACHY program.

11.08.2024: HIERACHY Paper II with Jiangtao Li as the leading author has been accepted for publication by ApJ, link.

11.05.2024: Our ELT/ANDES white paper on galaxy evolution and IGM has been accepted for publication by Experimental Astronomy.

10.13-10.24.2024: Jiangtao Li hosted the visit of Prof. Gulchehra Kokhirova from the Institute of Astrophysics of Tajikistan, who visited Xinjiang Observatory first, then together with Jiangtao, visited the Purple Mountain Observatory, Shanghai Observatory, and the National Astronomical Observatory of China.

10.01.2024: Jiangtao Li's student Liyuan Lu's eDIG-CHANGES Paper III on our multi-slit narrow-band spectroscopy observations of NGC 891 (Jiangtao is the corresponding author) has been accepted for publication by A&A. 

09.29-10.13.2024: Jiangtao Li set up the proto-type telescope of the PANDA-SMART project at the Lenghu observatory, together with his student Haikun Xue.

09.24-09.28.2024: Jiangtao Li attended a conference for FAST core array in Pingtang, Guizhou, and gave a talk on magnetic field of nearby galaxies.

09.13.2024: Volker Heesen's CHANG-ES paper on the discovery of a 20kpc radio bubble in NGC4217 (Jiangtao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by A&A.

08.09.2024: An image of NGC3556 from our MDM 2.4m/OSMOS multi-slit spectroscopy observations has been released on the MDM website. 

08.08.2024: Jiangtao Li's paper on the Galactic SNR HB9 and HII region G159+03 has been accepted for publication by A&A. 

07.22.2024: Jiangtao Li's graduate student Huiyang Mao has been awarded the CSC visiting student program to visit University of Michigan for one year. Congratulations, Huiyang!

07.19.2024: Two undergraduate students, Yu Huang from Nanjing University and Wei Hu from Chengdu University of Technology, joined Jiangtao Li's group. Welcome Yu and Wei!

07.17.2024: Jiangtao Li's CAS-ANSO program used to host Prof. G. Kokhirova's visit has been approved.

07.05.2024: Dan Hu's ESO P114 proposal on a clustered galaxy (Jiangtao Li is a co-I) has been approved for 1.6 hours of VLT/MUSE time. 

07.03.2024: Our Dwarfs4MOSAIC 2024B SOAR proposal (Jiangtao Li is a co-I) has been approved for 36.8 hours.

06.29.2024: Our CHANG-ES review paper has been published by Galaxies as the cover page.

06.12.2024: Our paper introducing the AXIS science on galaxies and clusters (Russell H. R. is the leading author and Jiangtao Li is a co-author) is accepted for publication by Universe.

06.09.2024: My student Yan Jiang's JCMT proposal on the molecular gas in the Stephan's Quintet (Jiangtao Li is a co-I) has been approved for 74 hours Band 5 time.

06.04.2024: Normahmad Normahmedov from the Tajikistan Institute of Astrophysics arrives in Nanjing and joins Jiangtao Li's group. Welcome, Normahmad!

05.31.2024: Our group has been allocated 2 nights of Magellan/MagE observations and 2 weeks of MDM/1.3m observations in the 2024B semester. 

05.30.2024: Jing Wang's CFHT proposal on the ionized gas around a nearby galaxy (Jiangtao Li is a co-I) has been approved.

05.11.2024: My student Shua Hahm from the Novi high school in Michigan has formally accepted the offer from the Yale University, and will start her college life in the fall semester. Congratulations, Shua!

05.01.2024: Judith Irwin's paper reviewing the CHANG-ES program (Jiangtao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by Galaxies. 

04.17.2024: Feige Wang's paper on ALMA/NOEMA observations of z~7 galaxies (Jiangtao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by ApJ.

04.08-12.2024: Jiangtao Li attended the "Co-evolution of galactic eco-systems and their large-scale environments" workshop and gave an invited talk on the HIERACHY project.

04.08.2024: eDIG-CHANGES Paper II (Jiangtao is the first author) has been accepted for publication by ApJ.

04.04.2024: Jiangtao Li's paper on the multi-wavelength examination of the pressure balance in the superbubble of NGC3079 has been accepted for publication by ApJ.

03.25.2024: Yang Yang's Paper on the discovery of 10 kpc scale radio jet in NGC4594 (Jiangtao Li is the corresponding author) has been accepted for publication by ApJ. 

03.21-24.2024: Jiangtao Li attend the "eROSITA & HUBS Scientific Exploitation Workshop" in Suzhou, and give a talk on the HUBS observation plan.

02.26.2024: 李江涛在时域天文创新群体启动会上做报告。

02.01-04, 07-13.2024: Jiangtao Li took some MDM remote observations together with students.

12.28.2023-01.01.2024: Jiangtao Li visited Xinjiang Observatory and another observatory site in Xinjiang and gave a talk. 

12.21-22.2023: Jiangtao Li visited Taiyuan University of Science and Technology and gave talk introducing the next generation large ground-based telescopes in the world.

12.20.2023: Jiangtao Li's PhD student Rui Huang (jointly supervised with Prof. Wei Cui at Tsinghua University) successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations to Rui!

12.16.2023: 7.1hrs LMT time was allocated to a project studying a nearby galaxy led by Prof. Daniel Wang (Jiangtao Li is a co-I). 

12.08.2023: 3 nights on Magellan/Baade/MagE and two weeks on MDM/1.3m are allocated to our group.

11.30-12.04.2023: Jiangtao Li attended the HUBS annual conference at Haikou, Hainan province together with some students, and gave a talk introducing the work progress of the Galactic Ecosystems SWG. 

11.29.2023: ANDES SW3 white paper appear on arXiv (arXiv:2311.16803; Jiangtao Li is a co-author and contributed a sub-section).

11.06-20.2023: Jiangtao Li trained two graduate students Huiyang Mao and Tianci Zheng at the MDM observatory and visited a few collaborators at the University of Arizona.

11.07.2023: Jiangtao Li's postdoc Yang Yang got three 2024A VLA proposals accepted (30 hours Priority B on high-z objects; 6.5 hours Priority B on a local galaxy, 6 hours Priority C on a supernova remnant/star forming region; Jiangtao is a co-I of all of them). Congratulations to Yang!

10.24.2023: Jiangtao Li take some Magellan observations together with some students.

10.12-18.2023: Jiangtao Li took some MDM 1.3m observations remotely, training some students.

10.2023: A group undergraduate and graduate students from Nanjing University join Jiangtao's group for a research project on AGN.

10-11.2023: Jiangtao Li visit the University of Michigan, the Michigan State University, the MDM observatory, and the University of Arizona.

09.04.2023: Jiangtao Li give a lecture "Multi-wavelength observations of the multi-phase Circum-Galactic Medium (CGM)" to the graduate students at PMO in the class "Modern Astronomy Lectures".

08.13.2023: Jiangtao Li give a talk "Future large ground-based telescopes in the world — LSST, ELT, TMT, GMT" in the PMO 2023 summer optical astronomy symposium, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

08.07.2023: Jiangtao Li give a talk at Yunnan Observatory.

08.06-11.2023: Jiangtao Li visited Yunnan Observatory, and two observatory stations of PMO in Yunnan.

08.04.2023: Jiangtao Li's student Yan Jiang's CO-CHANGES Paper I on IRAM 30m observations of NGC4594 has been accepted for publication by MNRAS.

07.20-08.01.2023: Jiangtao Li visited the Astrophysical Institute of Tajikistan and some place at Pamier together with some other astronomers.

07.19.2023: Jiangtao Li give a talk at Xinjiang Observatory.

07.14-18.2023: Jiangtao Li visited the Lenghu Observatory together with graduate students Huiyang Mao and Jianghui Xu.

07.13.2023: Our paper introducing the HUBS mission has been published in Science China.

06.27.2023: Jiangtao Li's student Yan Jiang's 2023B JCMT proposal on high-J CO observations of the Stephan’s Quintet has been awarded 12.0 hours time at band 3.

06.26.2023: Mr. Jinghao Miao, a graduated student working with Prof. Xi Kang, joins Jiangtao Li's group. Welcome Jinghao!

06.24.2023: Lucimara Martins' 2023B & 2024A SOAR proposal (Jiangtao Li is a co-I) on IFU observations of nearby dwarf galaxies (Dwarfs4MOSAIC project) has been accepted (40h Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC)/MEGARA, 3.5 night William Herschel Telescope (WHT)/WEAVE, 2.5 night Liverpool Tele- scope (LT)/IO:O, 5 night Isaac Newton Telescope (INT)/WFC).

06.13.2023: Our group has been awarded two weeks of the MDM 1.3m and one week of the MDM 2.4m time in 2023B (PI is Prof. Bregman).

06.09.2023: Jiangtao Li's graduate student Rui Huang's paper on the X-ray sources in the Andromeda galaxy M31 (New-ANGELS Paper I) has been accepted for publication by ApJS.

05.30.2023: Jiangtao Li's graduate student Liyuan Lu's 2023B TAP proposal has been approved for 1 night of the Palomar 200inch telescope (P200/WIRC) time.

05.18.2023: Jiangtao Li's postdoc Yang Yang's 2023B VLA proposal has been approved at priority C (112 hours of 14 objects filling the gaps).

05.08.2023: Jiangtao Li's previous undergraduate student Yuchen (Elina) Zhang has been admitted to the graduate school of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Congratulations to Yuchen!

05.05.2023: Jiangtao Li give an invited colloquium talk at Zhejiang University: "What is between the “visible” and “dark” galaxy?"

04.22-23.2023: Jiangtao Li attended the Galactic ecosystem workshop at Hangzhou and gave an invited talk "Galactic Ecosystems as Viewed by HUBS".

04.2023: Jiangtao Li took some observations at the MDM observatory together with the high school student Shua Hahm and Dr. Xi Long.

03-04.2023: Jiangtao Li visited the University of Michigan for about two weeks. Nice to come back.

03.2023: Jiangtao Li took some observations at MDM. In most of the time the weather was poor.

01.09.2023: Jiangtao Li has officially resigned from the University of Michigan on 01.03.2023, and joined the PMO as a full professor on 01.09.2023.

12.22.2022: Liyuan Lu's eDIG-CHANGES Paper I (Jiangtao Li is the corresponding author) has been accepted for publication by MNRAS (astro-ph link: arXiv:2212.14824). 

12.19.2022: 2 nights Magellan Baade time, 0.5 night Magellan Clay time, 16 nights MDM 1.3m time, 13 nights MDM 2.4m time are allocated to Jiangtao Li in the 2023A semester for three different projects (eDIG-CHANGES, HIERACHY, high-z ELAN).

12.01.2022: Our paper introducting ANDES (the high resolution spectrograph of the ELT) is formally published by SPIE (Jiangtao Li is a co-author).

11.24.2022: Two AO-22 XMM-Newton proposals submitted by our group have been accepted: A proposal led by Prof. Joel Bregman (Jiangtao is a co-I) aiming at detecting X-ray signals from galaxies bright in SZ signal has been awarded 99ks Priority A time and 16ks Priority C time. Another proposal led by Prof. Jiangtao Li on deeper X-ray observations of the Virgo cluster galaxy NGC4438 has been awarded 146ks Priority C time.

11.15.2022: Jiangtao attended the  70th anniversary meeting of the Department of Astronomy of Nanjing University.

10.04.2022: Michael Stein's CHANG-ES paper on CR transport from radio halos (Jiangtao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by A&A.

07.14.2022: Jiangtao Li's XMM-Newton AO-21 Large Program is funded by NASA for one year with a grant of $87,042.

06.24.2022: Jiangtao Li's student Yan Jiang's 2022B JCMT proposal on high-J CO observations of nearby galaxies has been approved for 2.1 hours.

06.21.2022: Joel Bregman's HST Cycle 30 proposal on the gaseous halo of galaxies and groups (Jiangtao Li is a co-I) has been approved for 30 orbits.

06.15,2022: Jiangtao Li's 2022 Swift proposal on high-z quasars has been approved for 106ks. 

06.10.2022: Yuming Fu's paper on Quasars behind the Galactic Plane (Jiangtao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by ApJS and is available on astro-ph now.

05.26.2022: Jiangtao Li's paper on multi-wavelength observations of the nuclear bubble of NGC4438 appears on astro-ph now.

05.20.2022: Yun Zheng's paper on the HI vertical structure of CHANG-ES galaxies (Jiangtao Li is a co-author) now appears on astro-ph.

05.20.2022: Our 2022B VLA CHANG-ES S-band proposal (led by Yelena Stein; Jiangtao Li is a co-I) is approved for 22.28 hours as Priority A.

05.20.2022: Happy the 120th birthday to Nanjing University! Happy the 70th birthday to the Department of Astronomy (now the college of astronomy and space science) of Nanjing University! It is definitely a good memory to spend 9 years of beautiful time in my life together with you!  

05.19.2022: The promotion of Jiangtao Li to a research associated professor at the University of Michigan has been completed and officially annouced. 

03.15.2022: Yun Zheng's paper on the HI data extracted from the CHANG-ES observations (Jiangtao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by MNRAS.

From Jan. to Feb. 2022: Jiangtao Li trained the postdoc Qiong Li at the MDM observatory for about three weeks.

01.31.2022: Joel Bregman's paper on SZ signal of L* galaxies (Jiangtao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by AJ.

01.11.2022: Yang Yang's paper on CHANG-ES VLA observations of NGC5792 (Jiangtao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by ApJ (arXiv:2201.05384).

01.09.2022: Some data taken with the Magellan/Baade telescope by a group of Jiangtao Li's students (Xiaodi Yu, Qinnan Zhu, and Tiancheng Yang).

01.05-06.2022: Some data taken with the MDM 1.3m telescope by a group of Jiangtao Li's students (Liyuan Lu, Qiong Li, and Tiancheng Yang).

12.31.2021: Three undergraduate students, Zihao Lin, Tiancheng Yang, and Qinnan Zhu, all from NJU, joined Jiang-Tao Li's group. 

12.24.2021: The official MOSAIC Consortium's greeting card here.

12.09.2021: An XMM-Newton AO-21 Large Program on NGC4594 (460ks) led by Jiangtao Li is approved!

12.07.2021: Five nights MDM 2.4m observations (later add another five nights) and eight nights MDM 1.3m observations (later add another four nights) led by Jiangtao Li have been approved in 2022A. We also have six nights 2.4m time and nine nights 1.3m time approved led by Jiangtao Li's postdoc Qiong Li (Jiangtao is a co-I).

12.07.2021: ELT MOSAIC and HIRES apporved by ESO council and start phase B!

12.07.2021: One (+1) night Magellan/MIKE observation led by Jiangtao Li has been approved in 2022A (scheduled on Jan. 9, 2022; one more night allocated to Jiangtao Li in Mar. 1 later), plus two nights led by Jiangtao's postdoc Qiong Li (scheduled on Feb. 2 and Mar. 8).

11.19.2021: Eric Perlman's paper on the TDE in NGC4845 (Jiangtao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by ApJ (arXiv:2111.10441). 

11.08.2021: Jiangtao Li's 2022A VLA proposal on NGC4438 has been approved at Priority C.

10.15.2021: Jiangtao Li organized the University of Michigan Chinese Astronomers Networking Group.

10.15.2021: Jiangtao Li joined the Michigan Space Institute, which is an inter-department institute of space-related research across the entire University of Michigan campus. 

09.24.2021: Jinyi Yang's paper on Near-IR spectra of z~6.5 quasars (Jiangtao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by ApJ. 

09.24.2021: George Heald's CHANG-ES Paper XXIII on LOFAR and VLA observations of NGC5775 (Jiangtao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by MNRAS.

09.09.2021: Jiangtao Li joined the Michigan Dark Skies (MiDS):  a collaboration of astronomers, bird watchers, environmentalists, academics, and Michigan residents. Let's protect our night sky together! 

09.03-09.2021: Jiangtao Li's student Qiong Li, Xiaodi Yu, and collaborator Yuming Fu took some remote observations with the MDM 1.3m telescope.

08.10.2021: Jiangtao Li's student Xiaodi Yu defended his PhD thesis on Aug. 10 (Beijing time). Xiaodi will join Prof. Zheng Cai's group at Tsinghua University as a postdoc. Congratulations, Dr. Yu! I'm proud of you.

08.06.2021: Jiangtao Li has been selected as a member of the Graduate Adimission Committee and the Proposal Committee for Swift at the Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan. 

08.01.2021: Yang Yang's FAST Cycle 1 program on HI observations of a nearby galaxy group (Jiangtao Li is a co-I) has been allocated 30 hours B-rated time and 10 hours C-rated time. 

07.30.2021: Feige Wang's Chandra large program on a proto-cluster at the epoch of reionization (Jiangtao Li is a co-I) has been approved for 900ks.

07.29.2021: Joel Bregman's paper on the detection of SZ signal from local L* galaxies (Jiangtao Li is a co-author) appears on arXiv.

06.09.2021: Two Magellan/Clay nights have been allocated to Jiangtao Li in 2021B via the HIERACHY project.

06.04.2021: Two LMT (50m Large Milimeter Telescope) proposals are approved as Priority A in the 2021A semester, one with Jiangtao Li as PI (6 hours), while the other with Daniel Wang as PI (9 hours; Jiangtao is a Co-I).

06.02.2021: Xiaodi Yu's 2021B TAP proposal (under Jiangtao Li's supervision) on CIV mass estimator of quasars has been approved for 1 brigth night with the P200/TripleSPEC.

05.30.2021: 8 nights 1.3m and 7 nights 2.4m observation time have been approved in the 2021B semester of the MDM observatory, both with Jiangtao Li as PI.

05.27.2021: My student Xiaodi Yu's first paper on the HIERACHY project has been accepted for publication by MNRAS. The paper is also available on arXiv.

05.26.2021: Jiangtao Li's paper on "A Chandra survey of z≥4.5 quasars" appears on  arXiv now, with the online data temporarily available here.

04.30.2021: Yuchen Zhang received her Bachelor's degree with honor at the Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, under the supervision of Dr. Jiangtao Li. Congratulations, Yuchen!

04.22.2021: Dr. Suoqing Ji from the California Institute of Technology gave a talk at the University of Michigan in the virtual extreme journal club, hosted by Jiangtao Li.

04.15.2021: Yifei Luo from the University of California, Santa Cruz gave a talk at the University of Michigan in the virtual extreme journal club, hosted by Jiangtao Li.

04.13.2021: Dr. Xiangcheng Ma from the University of California, Berkeley gave a talk at the University of Michigan in the virtual galaxy group meeting, hosted by Jiangtao Li.

04.12.2021: Jiangtao Li's 2021B Swift GTO proposal studying high-z quasars has been approved for 39ks.

04.09.2021: Jiangao Li's paper on a Chandra survey of high-z quasars has been accepted for publication by MNRAS.

03.30.2021: Feige Wang's JWST Cycle 1 proposal on a distant protocluster (Jiangtao Li is a co-I) has been approved for 22.1 hours.

03.02.2021: Dr. Junjie Mao from the University of Strathclyde gave a talk at the University of Michigan in the virtual galaxy group meeting, hosted by Jiangtao Li.

02.2021: Jiangtao Li's undergraduate student Yuchen Zhang accepted an offer to the graduate school of University College London.

02.2021: Jiangtao Li's graduate student Xiaodi Yu accepted a postdoc position at the Tsinghua University working with Prof. Zheng Cai.

02.25.2021: Yingjie Cheng from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst gave a talk at the University of Michigan in the virtual extreme journal club, hosted by Jiangtao Li.

02.11.2021: Prof. Shuo Zhang from the Bard College gave a talk at the University of Michigan in the virtual extreme journal club, hosted by Jiangtao Li.

02.04.2021: Dr. Jinyi Yang from the University of Arizona gave a talk at the University of Michigan in the virtual Astronomy colloquium, hosted by Jiangtao Li.

02.03.2021: Jiangtao Li's 2021A Swift GTO proposal studying high-z quasars has been approved for 39ks.

01.04.2021: Feige Wang's paper on the discovery of the highest redshift quasar at z=7.642 (Jiangtao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by ApJL. The related NOIR Lab Press Release is here.

01.2021: Jiangtao Li's postdoc Wei Sun accepted a long-term scientific staff position at the Purple Mountain Observatory.

12.30.2020: Jiangtao Li's 2021A Magellan proposal has been approved for two nights with Clay/MIKE.

12.27.2020: Jiangtao Li's 2021A MDM proposals (seven nights of the 1.3m telescope and five nights of the 2.4m telescope) have been approved.

12.13.2020: Wei Cui's paper on HUBS (Jiangtao Li is a co-author) has been published by SPIE.

12.10.2020: Dr. Xinfeng Xu from the Johns Hopkins University gave a talk at the University of Michigan in the virtual extreme journal club, hosted by Jiangtao Li.

11.24.2020: Feige Wang's paper on Chandra observations of z>6.5 quasars (Jiangtao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by ApJ.

11.12.2020: Prof. Laura Lopez from the Ohio State University gave a talk at the University of Michigan in the virtual Astronomy colloquium, hosted by Jiangtao Li.

11.10.2020: Zhijie Qu's paper on the discovery of a hot bridge toward M31 (Jiangtao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by ApJ.

11.09.2020: Yelena Stein's 2021A JVLA proposal on S-band observations of 28 CHANG-ES galaxies (Jiangtao Li is Co-I) has been accepted (70.21 hours at Priority B plus 66.08 hours at Priority C).

11.06.2020: Jiang-Tao Li's student Xiaodi Yu's TAP 2021A proposal on high-z quasars (Jiang-Tao Li is a co-I) has been approved for 1 night with the Palomar 200-inch telescope.

11.02.2020: Jiang-Tao Li's paper on the Chandra detection of three z~5 quasars has been accepted for publication by ApJ.

11.02.2020: Jiang-Tao Li's postdoc Qiong Li's NOEMA 2021A proposal on high-z Lya nebulae (Jiang-Tao Li is a co-I) has been approved for 11.5 hours as Priority B.

09.13.2020: Edmund Hodges-Kluck's paper on the large scale outflow in NGC3079 (Jiangtao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by ApJ.

08.10.2020: Jiang-Tao Li's student Liyuan Lu's FAST 2020 proposal on HI observations of NGC891 (Jiang-Tao Li is a co-I) has been approved for 3 hours as Priority B.

07.27.2020: Jiang-Tao Li and his students Wei Sun, Yan Jiang, Liyuan Lu give a virtual talk together for the 2020 CHANG-ES meeting.

07.21.2020: NRAO releases an image of the magnetic field structure of NGC4217 which is from Stein Yelena's paper recently published in A&A. The release is here, and the coordinated University of Michigan release is here.

07.2020: Jiang-Tao Li took some photos of the comet NEOWISE. Some of these photos are summarized here.

06.12.2020: Yang Jinyi's paper on the discovery of the second most distant quasar in the early Universe (Jiangtao Li is co-author) has been accepted for publication by ApJL. A related press release by NSF's NOIR lab on Jun. 25 can be found here, while a coordinated University of Michigan press release can be found here.

06.02.2020: Stein Yelena's paper on CHANG-ES observations of NGC4217 (Jiangtao Li is co-author) has been accepted for publication by A&A.

05.29.2020: Feige Wang's HST Cycle 28 proposal on a high redshift proto-cluster (Jiang-Tao Li is a co-I) has been approved for 17 orbits.

05.24.2020: Jiang-Tao Li's 2020B MDM proposals on low Galactic latitude quasars (5 nights, 1.3m) and eDIG around nearby galaxies (5 nights, 2.4m) have been approved but the detailed schedule has been postponed due to COVID-19.

05.24.2020: Jiang-Tao Li's 2020B Magellan proposal on high redshift quasars has been approved with 1 night allocated on Aug. 25, 2020.

04.30.2020: Marita Krause's CHANG-ES XXII (Jiang-Tao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by A&A and now appear on arXiv (2004.14383).

04.17.2020: Jiangtao Li has passed the 3rd review as an assistant research scientist, and will be promoted to a research associated professor next year.

03.04.2020: Ms. Qiong LI, currently a graduate student in Peking University, has joined Jiang-Tao Li's group as a postdoc. Qiong will arrive in Ann Arbor in Sep. 2020. Welcome, Qiong!

02.24-03.01.2020: Dr. Wei Sun in Jiang-Tao Li's group take some observations with the MDM 2.4m telescope at Kitt Peak.

02.17-02.24.2020: Jiang-Tao Li has trained Mr. Yuming Fu (graduate student in Peking University) to take some observations remotely with the MDM 1.3m telescope.

02.15.2020: Zhijie Qu's paper on a new model of the ionized gas around the Milky Way (Jiangtao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by ApJ.

02.03.2020: An undergraduate student Ms. Yuchen (Elina) Zhang in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor has joined Jiang-Tao Li's group. Welcome, Yuchen!

01.31.2020: Jiang-Tao Li give a talk at NOAO, Tucson about the hot CGM around nearby galaxies.

01.23-02.01.2020: Jiang-Tao Li take some observations at the MDM observatory at Kitt Peak together with his students Liyuan Lu, Wei Sun, and Rui Huang.

01.07.2020: Jiang-Tao Li's 2020A MDM proposals on low Galactic latitude quasars (7 nights, 1.3m) and eDIG around nearby galaxies (7 nights, 2.4m) have been approved.

12.05.2019: Jiang-Tao Li's 2020A Magellan proposal on high redshift quasars has been approved with 1 night allocated in March, 2019.

12.03.2019: Jinyi Yang's XMM-Newton AO-19 proposal on a high-z quasar (73ks; Jiangtao Li is Co-I) has been accepted.

11.26.2019: NRAO Image Release on the 3D magnetic field around an external galaxy produced by the CHANG-ES group, with a University of Michigan press release here.

11.20.2019: Liyuan Lu's 2020A TAP proposal (P200/CWI) on IFU observation of NGC3079 (0.5 dark night; Jiangtao Li is Co-I) has been accepted.

11.13.2019: Yelena Stein's 2020A JVLA proposal on S-band observations of a few CHANG-ES galaxies (25 hours on 6 galaxies; Jiangtao Li is Co-I) has been accepted as priority A.

10.30.2019: Jiangtao Li is hiring two new postdocs in University of Michigan. The advertisement is here.

10.23-25.2019: Jiangtao Li's student Xiaodi Yu get trained at Magellan by Dr. Ian Roederer. 

10.22.2019: Jiangtao Li's student Rui Huang has arrived in Ann Arbor. Rui is a visiting graduate student from Tsinghua University, and will stay in University of Michigan for one year. Welcome, Rui!

10.16.2019: Mora-Partiarroyo Silvia Carolina's two papers on CHANG-ES observations of NGC4631 (Jiangtao Li is co-author) appear online: arXiv:1910.07588, arXiv:1910.07590.

09-10.2019: Jiangtao Li gave a few talks in different Chinese institutes and the Delingha meeting.

09.13.2019: My student Jiang Xiaochuan's paper on statistical analysis of the X-ray morphology of galaxies (Jiangtao Li is co-author) has been accepted for publication by ApJ.

08.17.2019: Mora-Partiarroyo Silvia Carolina's two papers on CHANG-ES observations of NGC4631 (Jiangtao Li is co-author) have been accepted for publication by A&A.

07.23.2019: Feige Wang's ALMA proposal on high-z quasars with Jiang-Tao Li as Co-I have been accepted as Priority A in Cycle 7 (6.7 hours).

07.13.2019: Seven nights observing time at MDM 2.4m telescope has been approved in 2019B semester with Jiangtao Li as PI.

07.11.2019: Li Jiangtao's Chandra Cycle 21 proposal on high-z quasars is approved.

06.27.2019: Zhijie Qu's HST Cycle 27 archival proposal on UV absorption line studies of the MW (Jiangtao Li is a Co-I) is approved.

06.20.2019: Stein Yelena's paper on CHANG-ES observations of NGC4013 (Jiangtao Li is co-author) has been accepted for publication by A&A.

06.20.2019: Feige Wang's paper on high-z quasar survey (Jiangtao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by ApJ.

06.16.2019: Feige Wang's 2019B NOAO proposal on high-z quasars with 3.15 nights at Gemini (Jiangtao Li is a Co-I) is approved.

06.13.2019: Jiangtao Li give an invited review talk in the XMM-Newton 2019 Science workshop "Astrophysics of Hot Plasma in Extended X-ray Sources" in ESAC, Madrid, Spain.

06.07.2019: Jiang-Tao Li's Magellan proposals on high redshift quasars has been approved with 1.5 nights allocated in December, 2019.

06.05.2019: Vargas Carlos's paper on Ha observations of CHANG-ES galaxies (Jiangtao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by ApJS.

06.04.2019: Philip Schmidt's paper on CHANG-ES galaxies NGC891 and NGC4565 (Jiangtao Li is co-author) has been accepted for publication by A&A (arXiv:1907.03789).

05.27-29.2019: Jiang-Tao Li trained the graduate student Xiaodi Yu at the Las Campanas Observatory with the 6.5m Magellan Baade telescope and a few different instruments.

05.13.2019: Jiangtao Li give a talk in the CHANG-ES workshop in the TDLI institute in Shanghai, China.

05.05.2019: CHANG-ES B-array data release paper (Irwin J. A., et al., 2019, Jiangtao Li is co-author) has been accepted for publication by AJ.

04.25-27.2019: Jiang-Tao Li takes some observations at the Las Campanas Observatory with the 6.5m Magellan Clay telescope and the MIKE spectrograph.

04.23.2019: Yang Jinyi's paper on high-z quasars (Jiangtao Li is co-author) has been accepted for publication by AJ.

04.18-19.2019: Jiangtao Li give a few talks in University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

04.2019: Two of Jiangtao Li's undergraduate students in Nanjing University will go to graduate schools in US institutes. Zhuyun Zhuang will go to Caltech and Yingjie Cheng will go to UMASS, Amherst. Congratulations to Zhuyun and Yingjie!

04.10.2019: Jiangtao Li's paper on IRAM 30m observation of NGC5908 has been accepted for publication by AJ (arXiv:1904.05413).

04.04.2019: Dr. Alexey Vikhlinin from the Harvard-Smithsonian CfA gave a talk at the University of Michigan in the Astronomy colloquium, hosted by Jiangtao Li.

03.27.2019: Stein Yelena's paper on CHANG-ES observations of NGC4013 (Jiangtao Li is co-author) has been submitted to A&A.

03.22.2019: CHANG-ES B-array data release paper (Irwin J. A., et al., 2019, Jiangtao Li is co-author) has been submitted to AJ.

03.12.2019: Irwin Judith's paper summarizing the CHANG-ES results has been accepted for publication by "New Perspectives on Galactic Magnetism, ed. A Fletcher & A. Mao".

03.11.2019: Two Astro2020 white papers led by Hodges-Kluck and Bregman (Jiang-Tao Li is co-author) has been submitted.

02.28.2019: Chandra X-ray center and NASA issued a press release reporting the discovery of synchrotron hard X-ray emission produced by cosmic ray electrons in the superbubble of NGC3079 (led by Li Jiang-Tao, with an ApJ paper published on the same day here). See the press release here.

02.25.2019: Bregman Joel's ADAP proposal has been approved (3 year grant studying the hot halos of galaxies and galaxy groups).

02.19-26.2019: Li Jiang-Tao takes some observations with the IRAM 30m telescope.

02.14.2019: Vargas Carlos's paper on Ha observations of CHANG-ES galaxies has been submitted to AAS journals.

02.11.2019: Irwin Judith's paper summarizing the CHANG-ES results has been submitted to "New Perspectives on Galactic Magnetism, ed. A Fletcher & A. Mao".

01.21.2019: Li Jiang-Tao's paper on Chandra and JVLA observations of the nuclear superbubble of NGC3079 has been accepted for publication by ApJ.

01.09.2019: AAS press release on our discovery of a lensed high-z quasar, with coordinated press release in a few different institutes.

01.02-05.2019: Li Jiang-Tao took some observations at the MDM observatory with the 2.4m telescope.

12.13-28.2018: Li Jiang-Tao gave invited talks in seven Chinese institutes.

12.04.2018: Two Magellan proposals led by Jiang-Tao Li on the high redshift universe have been approved with two nights allocated in Spring, 2019.

12.03.2018: Li Jiang-Tao's paper on Chandra and JVLA observations of the nuclear superbubble of NGC3079 has been submitted to AAS journals.

12.03.2018: Stein Y.'s CHANG-ES Paper XIII on NGC4666 (Jiang-Tao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by A&A.

11.28.2018: Two XMM-Newton proposals led by Bregman J. with Jiang-Tao Li as Co-I have been approved as Priority C.

11.28.2018: Yang J.'s paper on a survey of high-z quasars (Jiang-Tao Li is a co-author) has been submitted to AJ (arXiv:1811.11915).

11.20.2018: Four nights observing time at MDM 2.4m telescope has been approved in 2019A semester with Jiang-Tao Li as PI.

11.16.2018: Wang F.'s paper on a broad absorption line quasar at high-z (Jiang-Tao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by ApJL.

11.05.2018: Li Jiang-Tao.'s paper on IRAM 30m observations of NGC5908 has been resubmitted to ApJ.

11.04.2018: Mora-Partiarroyo S. C.'s CHANG-ES Paper XIV on NGC4631 (Jiang-Tao Li is a co-author) has been submitted to A&A.

11.03.2018: Fan X.'s paper on a high-z lensed quasar (Jiang-Tao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by ApJL.

10.30.2018: A few papers by our group studying high-z quasars appear on astro-ph. Jiang-Tao Li is a co-author of three of them: 1810.11924, 1810.11925, 1810.11926. 

10.29.2018: Our 2019A IRAM 30m proposal observing the molecular gas in a sample of nearby galaxies (46 hrs) with Jiang-Tao Li as PI has been approved as Priority B.

10.26.2018: Stein Y.'s CHANG-ES Paper XIII on NGC4666 (Jiang-Tao Li is a co-author) has been submitted to A&A.

10.19.2018: Wang F.'s paper on a high-z broad absorption line quasar (Jiang-Tao Li is a co-author) has been submitted to AAS journals.

09.27.2018: Two undergraduate students have joined my research group via the UROP project.

09.24.2018: A press release on our NuSTAR observations of SN1006 has been issued here.

09.21.2018: Hodges-Kluck E.'s paper on XMM-Newton observations of NGC891 (Jiang-Tao Li is a co-author) has been accepted for publication by ApJ, and has appeared on astro-ph (1810.04680) on 10.10.

09.18.2018: A three-year NASA ADAP program with Jiang-Tao Li as PI has been selected for funding at the requested level.

08.31.2018: Jiang-Tao Li gives an oral report on the CGM-MASS project in the XXXth IAU Focus Meeting FM2: "Warm and Hot Baryonic Matter In the Cosmos" in Vienna.

08.08.2018: An University of Michigan Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) on optical observations of the extraplanar diffuse ionized gas around nearby spiral galaxies lead by Jiangtao Li has been approved.

08.07.2018: Ping Zhou's paper on IRAM 30m observations of Cas A with Jiang-Tao Li as co-author has been accepted for publication by ApJ.

07.25.2018: Two ALMA proposals with Jiang-Tao Li as Co-I have been accepted in Cycle 6 as Priority A (6.7 hours, PI: Feige Wang) and B (103.8 hours, PI: Laura Zschaechner), respectively.

07.24.2018: Bregman et al. (2018) with Jiang-Tao Li as co-author published online by ApJ.

07.22.2018: Jiang-Tao Li's paper on the NuSTAR observations of SN1006 accepted for publication by ApJ (arXiv:1807.09622).

07.17.2018: Four nights observing time at MDM 2.4m telescope has been approved in 2018B semester with Jiang-Tao Li as PI.

07.09.2018: Two Chandra proposals with Jiang-Tao Li as PI have been accepted in Cycle 20.

07.02.2018: Xiaohui Fan's paper on a high-z gravitationally lensed quasar (Jiang-Tao Li is a co-author) has been submitted to Nature.

07.01.2018: Jiang-Tao Li's paper on IRAM 30m observations of NGC5908 has been submitted to MNRAS.

06.22.2018: Ping Zhou's paper on IRAM 30m observations of Cas A (Jiang-Tao Li is a co-author) has been submitted to ApJ.

06.08.2018: Edmund Hodges-Kluck's paper on NGC891 (Jiang-Tao Li is a co-author) has been submitted to ApJ.

06.07.2018: My student Haochuan Li has defend his undergraduate thesis.

05.25.2018: Jiang-Tao Li's paper on the NuSTAR observations of SN1006 has been submitted to ApJ.

05.11.2018: An image of our XMM-Newton observations of the CGM-MASS galaxies is posted on the XMM-Newton Image Gallery.

05.09.2018: Jiang-Tao Li's 2018B IRAM 30m proposal (51.1 hours) has been accepted as Priority B.

04.18.2018: An ESA press release reporting our recent work on the CGM-MASS sample is issued. Coordinated press release in University of Michigan is also issued later. There is also a link on the NASA webpage and reports on some other mediums.

04.14-16.2018: Jiang-Tao Li takes some observations at the Las Campanas Observatory with the Magellan 6.5m Baade telescope.

03.28.2018: Bregman et al. (2018) with Jiang-Tao Li as co-author appear on astro-ph (arXiv:1803.08963).

02.26.2018: CGM-MASS Paper III accepted for publication by ApJL (arXiv:1802.09453).

02.16.2018: CHANG-ES Paper XI accepted for publication by MNRAS (arXiv:1802.06168).

02.06-14.2018: Jiangtao Li take some observations at the MDM observatory.

12.24.2017: CHANG-ES Paper X accepted for publication by ApJ (arXiv:1801.01892).

12.06.2017: 8 nights of MDM 2.4m/1.3m observations lead by Jiangtao Li have been approved in 2018A period.

12.05.2017: 3 nights of Magellan observations lead by Jiangtao Li have been approved in 2018A period (another 3 nights lead by Prof. Xiaohui Fan approved through University of Arizona).

12.01.2017: CHANG-ES Paper IX accepted for publication by A&A (arXiv:1712.03780).

11.29.2017: 133 ks XMM-Newton proposal lead by Joel Bregman (Jiangtao Li is Co-I) approved as Priority C.

11.06.2017: NOEMA proposal (4 hours on high-z quasar) led by Bram Venemans (Jiangtao Li is Co-I) accepted as Priority B. 

10.19.2017: CGM-MASS Paper II accepted for publication by ApJS (arXiv:1710.07355).

10.04.2017: CHANG-ES Paper X submitted to ApJ.

09.25.2017: CHANG-ES Paper IX submitted to A&A.

09.13.2017: Jiangtao Li give a colloquium talk at Arizona State University.

09.05-13.2017: Jiangtao Li take some observations with the 2.4m telescope at the MDM observatory.

08.22.2017: Jiangtao Li give a talk on the 16th HEAD meeting in Sun Valley, Idaho.

08.21.2017: Solar eclipse photos taken by me in Idaho available here.

08.18.2017: JWST DD ERS proposal submitted.

08.17.2017: Congratulations to all the Astro 131 students for excellent job in the summer semester!

08.09.2017: CGM-MASS Paper III submitted to Nature.

08.02.2017: Bregman et al. (2017) "The Extended Distribution of Baryons Around Galaxies" submitted to ApJ.

07.17.2017: Xiaohui Fan's Chandra proposal on high-z quasar (Li is Co-I) accepted (134ks).

06.29.2017: XMM-Newton fair share estimate of Jiangtao Li's 2016 large program on M31 is $108,699.

06.16.2017: CGM-MASS Paper II submitted to ApJS.

06.14.2017: MDM 2.4m observations of an emission line around a sample of galaxies (PI: Jiangtao Li; 6 nights) are scheduled in early September.

06.13.2017: Jiangtao Li is given a part time teaching position at University of Michigan Dearborn during the summer semester of 2017.

06.08.2017: Jiangtao Li give a talk on the CHANG-ES meeting in Bochum, Germany.

06.07.2017: Magellan observations (2017A) of a few high-z quasar have been taken by the co-I Feige Wang.

06.01.2017: IRAM 30m observation (2017B) of the molecular cloud around a SNR has been taken by Jiangtao Li.

04.30.2017: Our IRAM 30m proposal observing the molecular cloud around a SNR (PI: Jiangtao Li; 12.5 hours) has been accepted.

04.21.2017: Our VLBA proposal observing AGN in two nearby galaxies (PI: Megan Johnson; 20 hours) has been accepted.

04.12.2017: Li Jiangtao joined the Athena working group "SWG3.4: Supernova remnants & Interstellar medium" which is part of "SWG3: Observatory".

03.21.2017: Wang F. et al. 2017, arXiv:1703.07490. "First Discoveries of z > 6 Quasars with the DECAM Legacy Survey and UKIRT Hemisphere Survey." Accepted for publication by ApJ.