Speaker: Prof. Yipeng Jing (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Time: September 22, 2016 14:00

Place: 理科楼郑裕彤大讲堂

摘要：Expansion of the Universe is found to be accelerating. Mysterious dark energy is one possible solution to explain the acceleration, and modifying the gravity theory is another. The growth rate of the linear perturbation is a key quantity to distinguish between the two possibilities. In this talk, I will present a new method to measure the redshift space power spectrum for the DR11 CMASS sample. Defining a new statistic so-called the anisotropic measure that depends on the motion of galaxies only, we measure the growth rate. Guided by N-body simulations, we have made corrections to the non-linear effect using our model for the redshift space distortion. Finally I will compare our results with those in the literature.

Bio: Yipeng Jing is a professor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and is the director of Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics at SJTU. He obtained his PhD in 1992 at International School for Advanced Studies in Italy. He worked at the University of Arizona, Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, and the University of Tokyo before he became a professor at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) in 2000. He headed the Scientific Advisory Committee of SHAO for 8 years before he moved to SJTU in 2012. He was elected to Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015.His research interests are in observational cosmology and galaxy formation, including the formation of large-scale structures, physical properties of dark matter and dark energy, and formation and evolution of galaxies.