Xiaohui Fan Explained

Xiaohui Fan
Birth Place:Beijing, China
Nationality:American
Fields:Astronomy
Workplaces:University of Arizona
Alma Mater:Princeton University

Xiaohui Fan (born 9 December 1971 in Beijing, China) is an American astronomer, and full professor at University of Arizona.[1] He is widely known for his studies on quasars, extremely bright supermassive black holes, detected primarily at high redshift. In 2003, Fan was named to Popular Science magazine's annual Brilliant Ten list for developing methods to investigate distant quasars.[2] Since 2001, he was a pioneer in the detection and discovery of high-redshift quasars, introducing new techniques and practically inventing the field.[3] Using these quasars, he has shown that supermassive black holes with masses up to 10 million solar masses existed within one billion years after the big bang.[4] In 2019, he led an international team of astronomers that discovered the farthest lensed quasar thus far, the very first in the epoch of reionization.[5] In 2021, his team announced the discovery of the most distant and oldest known quasar, QSO J0313–1806.

Education

He graduated from Nanjing University with a B.Sc. (1992) and from the Chinese Academy of Sciences with a M.Sc. (1995). He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2000.[6]

Awards

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.as.arizona.edu/people/faculty/fan.html Faculty
  2. Mone. Gregory. August 4, 2003. Popsci's 2nd Annual Brilliant 10. Popular Science. February 22, 2015.
  3. Fan. Xiaohui. Narayanan. Vijay K.. Lupton. Robert H.. Strauss. Michael A.. Knapp. Gillian R.. Becker. Robert H.. White. Richard L.. Pentericci. Laura. Leggett. S. K.. Haiman. Zoltán. Gunn. James E.. 2001-12-01. A Survey of z>5.8 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I. Discovery of Three New Quasars and the Spatial Density of Luminous Quasars at z~6. The Astronomical Journal. 122. 6. 2833–2849. 10.1086/324111. astro-ph/0108063. 2001AJ....122.2833F. 119339804.
  4. Yang. Jinyi. Wang. Feige. Fan. Xiaohui. Hennawi. Joseph F.. Davies. Frederick B.. Yue. Minghao. Banados. Eduardo. Wu. Xue-Bing. Venemans. Bram. Barth. Aaron J.. Bian. Fuyan. 2020-07-01. Poniua'ena: A Luminous z = 7.5 Quasar Hosting a 1.5 Billion Solar Mass Black Hole. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 897. 1. L14. 10.3847/2041-8213/ab9c26. 2006.13452. 2020ApJ...897L..14Y. 220042206 . free .
  5. Fan. Xiaohui. Wang. Feige. Yang. Jinyi. Keeton. Charles R.. Yue. Minghao. Zabludoff. Ann. Ann Zabludoff . Bian. Fuyan. Bonaglia. Marco. Georgiev. Iskren Y.. Hennawi. Joseph F.. Li. Jiangtao. 2019-01-01. The Discovery of a Gravitationally Lensed Quasar at z = 6.51. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 870. 2. L11. 10.3847/2041-8213/aaeffe. 1810.11924. 2019ApJ...870L..11F. free.
  6. Web site: Xiaohui's CV (pdf here). 2020-10-18. sancerre.as.arizona.edu.
  7. Web site: Xiaohui Fan - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . June 15, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110622020539/http://www.gf.org/fellows/4371-xiaohui-fan . June 22, 2011 .

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