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Draft:Hsiang-Kuang Chang

  • Comment: I see no indications of significant awards that would qualify him for WP:NPROF. The two Nature papers that the articles claims are notable have 68 & 54 cited so don't really hit the widely cited category. Ldm1954 (talk) 15:10, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Hsiang-Kuang Chang (born 1964) is a Taiwanese high energy astrophysicist.[1][2][3]. He is currently a senior professor at the Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University[4]. He is the principal investigator of GTM project. It is the first astronomical telescope of Taiwan[5][6].

Prof.
Hsiang-Kuang Chang
張祥光
Born1964
Taipei, Taiwan
Other namesProf. HK
EducationNational Tsing Hua University, BS

National Taipei University, MS

Bonn University, DNS
Years active1997-present
Known forGTM, the first space astronomical telescope of Taiwan[7]
Websitehttp://www.phys.nthu.edu.tw/~hkchang/

Biography edit

Hsiang-Kuang Chang was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1964. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Hsinchu which he completed in 1987. After that, he completed a Master of Science in Physics, Institute of Physics, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, in 1991. He then moved to Bonn University in Germany to do his PhD under Wolfgang Kundt, which he completed in 1994[8]. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Los Alamos National Lab, USA between 1994 and 1996 after which he moved back to National Tsing Hua University[1].

Career edit

Hsiang-Kuang Chang became an assistant professor in NTHU in 1997[9]. He held the chairing position in Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University between 2008 and 2011. He was also the president of the National Committee of Republic of China (ROC) for Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), 2022-2023[10]. He is currently the Vice President for General Affairs at NTHU, a position which he had held before in 2014 - 2015 academic year[1][11]. One of his most notable work include the Nature paper titled "Ambient acoustic imaging in helioseismology"[12][13].

He has also studied trans-neptunian objects, by seeing the occultation of X-rays from Scorpius X-1 by them[14]. He was also the Taiwan lead of The Nuclear Compton Telescope (NCT) project[15][16], which a balloon-borne telescope designed to study astrophysical sources of gamma-ray emission with high spectral resolution, moderate angular resolution, and novel sensitivity to gamma-ray polarization[17][18]. It was a collaborative effort between UC Berkley, NTHU and NCT among many others[19][20]. Later, NASA took up the mission as a SMEX mission. Renamed as The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI)[21][22][23], it is a 0.2–5 MeV Compton telescope capable of imaging, spectroscopy, and polarimetry of astrophysical sources[24]. He was also a part of UltraFast[25] project[1]. It was a multi-fiber fast photometer planned to mount on UT2 (Kueyen) of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Cerro Paranal, Chile.

He has various academic interests ranging from Pulsars (PSR), Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXP) and Soft Gamma Repeaters (SGR) - magnetar, X-ray binaries (XRB), Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB), Supernova Remnants (SNR) and Cosmic Rays (CR), Galactic 511 keV emission, Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), Search for white dwarf p-mode oscillation, Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNO), etc[1][26][27][28].

GTM edit

Hsiang-Kuang Chang is the PI of the Gamma-ray Transients Monitor (GTM). It is a secondary payload on board board Formosat-8B[29][30]. It is the first space astronomical telescope of Taiwan[5][31]. The goal of GTM is to monitor Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) and other bright gamma-ray transients in the energy range from 50 keV to 2 MeV[29]. It will be launched by TASA in 2027.

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e "Home Page of Hsiang-Kuang Chang". www.phys.nthu.edu.tw. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  2. ^ "Chang, Hsiang-Kuang". www.astr.nthu.edu.tw. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  3. ^ "International Astronomical Union | IAU". www.iau.org. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  4. ^ "High Energy Astrophysics in Taiwan Hsiang-Kuang Chang ( 張 祥光 ) Department of Physics and Institute of Astronomy National Tsing Hua University ( 國立清華大學. - ppt download". slideplayer.com. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  5. ^ a b "Gamma-ray Transients Monitor". Crab0.
  6. ^ Hsiang-Kuang Chang: MeV Astronomy Instrumentation Development in Taiwan, retrieved 2024-01-22
  7. ^ "FORMOSAT-8 - Taiwan Space Agency". inprogress.php (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  8. ^ "Physics Tree - Hsiang-Kuang Chang Family Tree". academictree.org. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  9. ^ 徐安廷, 清大外語18級 郭人萱、清大電機18級. "社團歷史". 清大天文社 50 週年. Retrieved 2024-01-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ "ASROC docs" (PDF).
  11. ^ "About us". general.site.nthu.edu.tw. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  12. ^ Chang, Hsiang-Kuang; Chou, Dean-Yi; LaBonte, Barry; the TON Team (October 1997). "Ambient acoustic imaging in helioseismology". Nature. 389 (6653): 825–827. Bibcode:1997Natur.389..825C. doi:10.1038/39822. ISSN 1476-4687. S2CID 4425727.
  13. ^ "Hsiang-Kuang Chang". Nature. 442 (7103): xi. August 2006. doi:10.1038/7103xia. ISSN 1476-4687.
  14. ^ Chang, Hsiang-Kuang; King, Sun-Kun; Liang, Jau-Shian; Wu, Ping-Shien; Lin, Lupin Chun-Che; Chiu, Jeng-Lun (August 2006). "Occultation of X-rays from Scorpius X-1 by small trans-neptunian objects". Nature. 442 (7103): 660–663. Bibcode:2006Natur.442..660C. doi:10.1038/nature04941. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 16900194. S2CID 4371644.
  15. ^ Chang, Hsiang-Kuang; Boggs, Steven; Chang, Yuan-Hann (2007-01-01). "The Nuclear Compton Telescope (NCT): Scientific goals and expected sensitivity". Advances in Space Research. 40 (8): 1281–1287. Bibcode:2007AdSpR..40.1281C. doi:10.1016/j.asr.2007.07.012. ISSN 0273-1177.
  16. ^ Chang, Hsiang-Kuang; Boggs, Steven; Chang, Yuan-Hann (2007-01-01). "The Nuclear Compton Telescope (NCT): Scientific goals and expected sensitivity". Advances in Space Research. 40 (8): 1281–1287. Bibcode:2007AdSpR..40.1281C. doi:10.1016/j.asr.2007.07.012. ISSN 0273-1177.
  17. ^ 清華張祥光團隊 跨國合作發現13個海王星外天體, retrieved 2024-01-22
  18. ^ 自由時報電子報 (2016-05-18). "偵測宇宙伽瑪射線 清大攜手柏克萊 - 生活 - 自由時報電子報". news.ltn.com.tw (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  19. ^ 自由時報電子報 (2017-01-16). "清華大學首招天文物理組 要高中生探索宇宙 - 生活 - 自由時報電子報". news.ltn.com.tw (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  20. ^ https://www.facebook.com/ETtoday (2016-05-18). "找尋宇宙最強的電磁波段 清大太空望遠鏡17日成功升空 | ETtoday生活新聞 | ETtoday新聞雲". www.ettoday.net (in Traditional Chinese). Retrieved 2024-01-22. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help); External link in |last= (help)
  21. ^ "COSI". COSI. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  22. ^ Tomsick, John; COSI collaboration (2021-07-30). "The Compton Spectrometer and Imager Project for MeV Astronomy". Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2021). Vol. 395. Sissa Medialab. p. 652. doi:10.22323/1.395.0652.
  23. ^ "NASA Selects Gamma-ray Telescope to Chart Milky Way Evolution - NASA". Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  24. ^ "Miniworkshop for High-Energy Astrophysics". events.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  25. ^ LESIA. "ESO Françoise Roques LESIA PDF" (PDF). UltraPhot, a photometric mode for FLAMES.
  26. ^ "Hsiang-Kuang Chang (NASA/ADS)". ui.adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  27. ^ "International Astronomical Union | IAU". www.iau.org. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  28. ^ 2021.05.04「通識人物—萊布尼茲＆牛頓」系列演講：張祥光教授－「蘋果，彗星，重力波－從牛頓到愛因斯坦」, retrieved 2024-01-22
  29. ^ a b Chang, Hsiang-Kuang; Lin, Chi-Hsun; Tsao, Che-Chih; Chu, Che-Yen; Yang, Shun-Chia; Huang, Chien-You; Wang, Chao-Hsi; Su, Tze-Hsiang; Chung, Yun-Hsin; Chang, Yung-Wei; Gong, Zi-Jun; Hsiang, Jr-Yue; Lai, Keng-Li; Lin, Tsu-Hsuan; Lu, Chia-Yu (2022-01-15). "The Gamma-ray Transients Monitor (GTM) on board Formosat-8B and its GRB detection efficiency". Advances in Space Research. 69 (2): 1249–1255. Bibcode:2022AdSpR..69.1249C. doi:10.1016/j.asr.2021.10.044. ISSN 0273-1177.
  30. ^ "FORMOSAT-8 - Taiwan Space Agency". inprogress.php (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  31. ^ "FORMOSAT-8 - Taiwan Space Agency". inprogress.php (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved 2024-01-22.
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