Professor Wang is a Professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He received his Ph.D. in Astronomy in 1990 from Columbia University. He was awarded the ASP Robert J. Trumpler Award for Outstanding North American Ph.D Dissertation Research in Astronomy. He was then an Edwin P. Hubble postdoctoral fellow at University of Colorado and later a Lindheimer fellow at Northwestern University. He was also a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, was the Siyuan Visiting Chair Professor at Nanjing University, and recently served on the Galactic Neighborhood Frontier Science Panel of Astro 2010 - the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics. He will be visiting University of Cambridge as a Raymond and Beverley Sackler Distinguished Visitor. He has published 140+ research papers in refereed journals, including four in Nature as the 1st author; about 50 over the last five years. His publication covers a broad range of topics: quark/neutron stars, pulsars, X-ray binaries, supernova remnants, superbubbles, hot gas in intracluster and intergalactic space as well as in individual galaxies, hydrodynamic simulations of hot gas, and active galactic nuclei. His current research focuses on the hot interstellar and intergalactic media, the feedback and evolution of galaxies, and galactic nuclear regions. He mainly uses infrared, ultraviolet, and X-ray observations to conduct these studies. He also carries out theoretical and computational studies with my students and collaborators.
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Galactic coronae in the intracluster environment: semiconfined stellar-feedback-driven outflows (with Z Lu), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2011)
Recently X-ray observations have shown the regular presence of compact galactic coronae around intermediate-mass spheroid...
Discovery of a Luminous Blue Variable with an Ejection Nebula Near the Quintuplet Cluster (with JC Mauerhan, MR Morris, A Cotera, H Dong, SR Stolovy, C Lang, and IS Glass), Astrophysical Journal Letters (2010)
We report on the discovery of a luminous blue variable (LBV) lying 7 pc in...
HST/NICMOS Paschen-alpha Survey of the Galactic Centre: Overview (with H Dong, A Cotera, S Stolovy, M Morris, CC Lang, MP Muno, G Schneider, and D Calzetti), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2010)
We have recently carried out the first wide-field hydrogen Paschen-α line imaging survey of the...
Missing-iron problem and Type Ia supernova enrichment of hot gas in galactic spheroids (with S Tang), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2010)
Type Ia supernovae (Ia SNe) provide a rich source of iron for hot gas in...
The Dearth of Chemically Enriched Warm-Hot Circumgalatic Gas (with Y Yao, SV Penton, TM Tripp, JM Shull, and JT Stocke), Astrophysical Journal (2010)
The circumgalactic medium (CGM) around galaxies is believed to record various forms of galaxy feedback...