Contact:
80 Nandan Road, Shanghai, 200030, China
Phone: +86-21-34775301
Fax: +86-21-64384618
Email: fyuan@shao.ac.cn
Current Research interests:
- Black hole accretion, jet, wind
- AGNs feedback, galaxy evolution
- Active galactic nuclei
- Black hole X-ray binaries
- Planet formation
Employment:
- 1997-1998: Lecturer, Physics Department, Nanjing Normal University
- 1998-2000: Postdoctoral Researcher, Astronomy Department, Nanjing University
- 2000-2002: Postdoctoral Researcher, Max-Planck Institute of Radio Astronomy, Germany
- 2002-2003: Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, USA
- 2003-2005: Postdoctoral Researcher, Physics Department, Purdue University, USA
- 2005-present: Professor, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Education:
- 1987-1991: B.Sc., Physics Department, Shandong University; Major: Theoretical Physics
- 1991-1994: M.Sc., Institute of Chemistry, Shandong University; Major: Quantum Chemistry
- 1994-1997: Ph.D., Center for Astrophysics, University of Science and Technology of China; Major: Astrophysics
Selected publications:
- Yuan, F. Luminous hot accretion disks, 2001, MNRAS, 324, 119-127
- Yuan, F., Quataert, E., & Narayan, R. Nonthermal Electrons in Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flow Models of Sagittarius A*, 2003, ApJ, 598, 301-312
- Yuan, F., Cui, W. The radio---X-ray correlation and quiescent state of black hole sources, 2005, ApJ, 629, 408-413
- Yuan, F., Lin, J., Wu, K. & Ho, L. An MHD model for the formation of episodic jets, 2009, MNRAS, 395, 2183
- Yuan, F., Bu, D., & Wu, M. Numerical Simulation of Hot Accretion Flows. II. Nature, Origin, and Properties of Outflows and their Possible Observational Applications, 2012, ApJ, 761,130
- Wang, Q. et al. Dissecting X-ray-Emitting Gas Around the Center of Our Galaxy, 2013, Science, 341, 981
- Yuan, F. & Narayan, R. Hot acretion flows around black holes, 2014, ARA&A, 52, 529
- Yuan, F. Gan, Z., Narayan, R., Sadowski, A., Du, D. & Bai, X. Numerical Simulation of Hot Accretion Flows. III. Revisiting Wind Properties Using the Trajectory Approach, 2015, ApJ, 804, 101
Selected talks:
- Luminous hot accretion flows
- Accretion onto the supermassive black hole in our Galactic center
- Advection-dominated accretion: from Sgr A* to low-luminosity AGNs
- An MHD model for episodic jets
- Numerical simu lations of black hole accretion and outflow
- AGNs feedback in an elliptical galaxy
Latest update: August 2016
