Shu-Xu YI
I am a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Hong Kong. Previously, I was a Ph.D student at Unveristy of Chinese Academy of Sciences. I'm interested in pulsars--a kind of dead stars.
With the size of a small city, a pulsar has the mass more than that of the sun. Hence it's the ideal place for studying superstrong gravity. Besides, the magnetic field of a pulsar can be measured up to billions of Tesla (the world record on Earth is less than 100 Tesla). Besides, the pulsar is fast spinning. As a result, the speed at the surface of its magnetosphere is close to the speed of light.
The fascinating celestial laboratory provides incomparable advantages in studying fundamental physics, including fields such as the Theory of Relativities/alternative gravity theories, nuclear and particle physics, plasma physics, etc.
Pulsars are also the most accurate clocks and cosmic light houses. Astronomers can use pulsars as tools to study wide topics in astrophysics. For instance, detection of gravitational waves with pulsar timing array, accurate measurement of masses of stars in pulsar binaries, etc.
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