Taiwan Astronomical Research Alliance

Announcement & News

• Giant Magellan Telescope Advances to National Science Foundation Final Design Phase

• Announcement of the 2025 Summer Student Acceptance List and Campus Visit Schedule

• "A Star is Born... in a Burger full of Space Dust and Organics!" -- Is Showcased at Open Museum's Annual Exhibition on May 18, 2025

• Lulin Observatory’s Assistant Specialist, Atayal Warrior Jiun-Shiung Shih, Retires: A Touching Conclusion to 25 Years of Stargazing in the High Mountains

• LOT Semester 2025B (01 May - 31 August, 2025)

Upcoming Events

• 2025 North America-Taiwan joint ALMA Science Workshop (June 16 - 19)

• 2025 TARA Summer Student Program

Previous Events

• 2025 Lulin Observatory Users and Interdisciplinary Symposium

• 2025 Taiwan Astronomy Annual Meeting (May 16-18 2025)

• ALMA Cycle 12 Users Workshop (March 25 2025)

• 2025 ALMA Imaging Workshop (February 13-14 2025)

• 2025 Annual Meeting of the Physical Society of Taiwan (January 14-16)

Award

• NTHU PhD student Surojit Saha (IoA) has been awarded the 2025 AAPPS Award

• Students of the TARA Alliance received the Best Oral Presentation Award, Honorable Mention for Poster Presentation, and Excellence in Poster Presentation Award at the 2025 TPS Annual Meeting

• IAA Distinguished Research Fellow Chin-Fei Lee awarded the Ministry of Education's 68th Annual Academic Award

• IANCU Professor Wen-Ping Chen awarded National Central University 2024 Industry-Academia Contribution Award

• NTNU Professor Yueh-Ning Lee won the 2024 NCTS Young Theorist Award

Science Highlights

Multiple Misaligned Outflows and Warped Accretion Flows

Dense Molecular Gas in Green Valley Galaxies

Rapid Spin Changes Around a Magnetar Fast Radio Burst

Inferring Obscured Cosmic Black Hole Accretion History from AGN Found by JWST/MIRI CEERS Survey

Multiple Outflows around a Single Protostar IRAS 15398−3359

Resolved Measurements of the CO-to-H2 Conversion Factor in 37 Nearby Galaxies

Exploring the Dominant Impact of Quenching Mechanisms

Unveiling protostellar disk polarization with ALMA

RR Lyrae in Virgo III

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