About
Xing Lu obtained his PhD degree in astrophysics in 2016 at Nanjing University and was awarded the excellent thesis prize of Jiangsu Province. He also visited Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as an SMA predoctoral fellow in 2012-2015. In 2016-2021, he worked in the ALMA Project of National Astronomical Observatory of Japan as an ALMA project research fellow, and participated in on-site observations, science goal projections, and proposal reviews of ALMA. In October 2021, he joined the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory. He has published first-authored papers in Nature Astronomy, ApJ, ApJL, and ApJS, and has obtained Grade-A ALMA projects (the highest priority, usually top 5% of all projects) several times. These projects include the longest baseline (16 km), high frequency (0.5 THz), and polarization modes, which are high-risk/high-reward tasks for ALMA. His research achievements have been highlighted by CCTV, Xinhua News, People's Daily, Nature, the ALMA observatory, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and the National Science Foundation of the US, among other media. His personal website is https://xinglunju.github.io
Research Areas
star formation, molecular clouds around the Galactic Center, radio interferometer observations
Scientific Research
Selected Publication
1. Lu, Xing; Li, Guang-Xing; Zhang, Qizhou and Lin, Yuxin, 2022, Nature Astronomy.
"A massive Keplerian protostellar disk with flyby-induced spirals in the Central Molecular Zone".
2. Lu, Xing; Li, Shanghuo; Ginsburg, Adam, et al., 2021, ApJ, 909, 177.
"ALMA Observations of Massive Clouds in the Central Molecular Zone: Ubiquitous Protostellar Outflows".
3. Lu, Xing; Cheng, Yu; Ginsburg, Adam, et al., 2020, ApJ Letters, 894, 14.
"ALMA Observations of Massive Clouds in the Central Molecular Zone: Jeans Fragmentation and Cluster Formation".
4. Lu, Xing; Zhang, Qizhou; Kauffmann, Jens, et al., 2019, ApJ, 872, 171.
"Star Formation Rates of Massive Molecular Clouds in the Central Molecular Zone".
5. Lu, Xing; Zhang, Qizhou; Liu, Hauyu Baobab, et al., 2018, ApJ, 855, 9.
"Filamentary Fragmentation and Accretion in High-mass Star-forming Molecular Clouds".
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