| 国台学术报告2022年第2次/NAOC Colloquium No.2 2022 | |
| 报告题目/Title： | Reaching the deep universe from Lenghu on the Tibetan plateau - current status and future perspective |
| 报告人/Speaker： | Prof.Licai Deng (NAOC) |
| 报告时间/Time： | Wednesday 2:30 PM, Apr. 06 2022 |
| 报告地点/Location： | A601, NAOC & Live Streaming |
| 主持人/Host： | Prof.Chao Liu(NAOC) |
| 报告语言/Language： | English |
| 报告海报/Poster： | Click to get the poster |
| 演示幻灯片/Slides： | Click to view the slides |
| 报告视频/Video： | (未经授权请勿转载） |
| 直播链接/Live Webcast： | [直播地址](https://dwz.mk/y63Q7z) |
| 报告摘要/Abstract： | |
| On Earth’s surface, there are only a handful of high-quality astronomical sites that meet the requirements for very large next-generation facilities. In the context of scientific opportunities in time-domain astronomy, a good site on the Tibetan Plateau will bridge the longitudinal gap between the known best sites1,2 (all in the Western Hemisphere). The Tibetan Plateau is the highest plateau on Earth, with an average elevation of over 4,000 metres, and thus potentially provides very good opportunities for astronomy and particle astrophysics3–5. Here we report the results of three years of monitoring of testing an area at a local summit on Saishiteng Mountain near Lenghu Town in Qinghai Province. The altitudes of the potential locations are between 4,200 and 4,500 metres. An area of over 100,000 square kilometres surrounding Lenghu Town has a lower altitude of below 3,000 metres, with an extremely arid climate and unusually clear local sky (day and night)6. Of the nights at the site, 70 per cent have clear, photometric conditions, with a median seeing of 0.75 arcseconds. The median night temperature variation is only 2.4 degrees Celsius, indicating very stable local surface air. The precipitable water vapour is lower than 2 millimetres for 55 per cent of the night. As of the beginning of 2022, the infrastructure suitable for a new giant observatory is almost ready, and a total number of 9 observing projects has begun their construction. As a strategic resource for future developments in Astronomy in China, dark night sky preservation in the surrounding area of Lenghu site is now under discussion. | |
| 报告人介绍/Bio: | |
| Prof. Licai Deng got his PhD in 1994 from SISSA (Schuola Internazionale Studi Superiori Avanzadi), Italy. He has been working on observational and theoretical stellar astrophysics since joining Beijing Astronomical Observatory (BAO, the predecessor of NAOC) of CAS in 1997, focusing primarily on stellar structure and evolution, stellar pulsation and oscillations, stellar populations in clusters and galaxies. Starting from 2009, he has been involved in developing a node for the global observing campaign of stellar oscillations, otherwise called Stellar Observations Network Group (SONG), and its daughter project 50BiN. In the last over 10 years, he has been working on site qualification for SONG/50BiN in Delingha Radio observing site, building up the facilities, and running the science programs. In 2018, he led a site testing project at Lenghu, independent of general site selection for 12m LOT proposal, which turned out to be very successful. | |
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