Hi, I'm a final year PhD student in gravitational wave astrophysics at the TianQin Research Center for Gravitational Physics, Sun Yat-sen University in Zhuhai, China. I simulate and analyze data for planned space-based gravitational wave detectors like TianQin and LISA, and study how they can help unvealing the origin of compact binaries. (e.g. binary black holes)
Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of spacetime, they were predicted a century ago by Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. The first direct observation was in 2015, from the merger of two black holes.
TianQin, which means "Celestial Harp" in Chinese, is a proposed space-based gravitational wave detector. Unlike ground-based detectors, TianQin consists of three satellites that will form a laser-beam triangle around the Earth at an altitude of 100,000km. The longer baseline will allow us capture more types of signals that can "pluck the strings" and thus extend our knowledge of the universe.
Moving detectors into space will make us face additional challenges. I am studying how cooperation between space and the ground (i.e. multiband searches) will help to detect systems that evolve sequentially in the sensitive bands of both, and how information obtained from space detectors can help to distinguish the mechanisms by which these systems form.
Check my outreach videos on Bilibili:
Only wait for the bright moon, to share it with you from afar. (Background Design from the Internet)
Enjoy the moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival
Brochures for Astronomy Enthusiasts Association of HUST (Background Design: Yutong Chen)
Brochures for Astronomy Enthusiasts Association of HUST (Background Design: Yutong Chen)
Enjoy the moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival
Association Recruitment (Background Design: Yutong Chen)
Poster for a talk by Dr. Xihao Deng (Background Design from the Internet)
Poster for a talk by Changchi Yang. (Background pictures from the Internet)
The gallery above shows some of the posters and brochures I have designed for flagship events or association recruitment. Some of the background images were designed by others (if noted). Invalid QR codes have been removed.
I've been a PhD student in astronomy at Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) supervised by Yi-Ming Hu since 2020. Before that I got my Bachelor's degree in physics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). Check my detailed CV below↓
My given name "晗" (Han) means "pre-dawn, break of dawn" and surname "王" (Wang) means "king, monarch". However, due to "王" being the most common surname and the existence of many homophones in Chinese, my name in English form often results in even more pronounced "degeneracies" than in Chinese. :(
Ranking of interactive data per episode of Romance of the Three Kingdoms (1994) on Bilibili
Ranking of interactive data per episode of Yongzheng Dynasty (1999) on Bilibili
sbank_simplifiedA(n over-)simplified version of sbank for demonstrating the basic idea of generating template banks for gravitational wave detection