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– Based on the observations of the Chinese Small Telescope ARray (CSTAR) deployed at Antarctic
Dome A in 2008, the i-band sky background brightness, transparency and the effect on the imaging
by the Aurorae were analyzed. The paper about this work was published in AJ in 2010.
– Using the panchromatic spectral energy distribution (SED) from ultraviolet, optical and infrared
photometry, a nearby face-on spiral galaxy, NGC 628, was investigated to study its two-dimensional
features. With the help of an evolutionary stellar population synthesis model (PEGASE), age,
metallicity and reddening maps were obtained so that structures of the distinct bulge, disk and
spiral arms and the formation and evolution history of the galaxy were understood. H II regions
were specially treated due to their complex stellar populations in observations which were mixed
with the galactic background populations. The paper was submitted to AJ.
– With the commissioning data of the Guoshoujing Telescope (previously named LAMOST, the largest
telescope built in China), we tried to derive the kinetic properties such as the velocity field and
velocity dispersions and the features of stellar populations by STARLIGHT (a spectrum fitting code).
Master Work
– With the u, g, r, i and z photometric catalog over 40×20 deg 2 in the sixth data release of the Sloan
Digital Sky Survey, the tidal tails of Palomar 5 were detected by the artificial neural networks
technique. This method was proved to be a nice approach comparable with the optimal match
filter method as usually adopted by most researchers in their studies of tidal tails.
– For the accumulated data of 15 intermediate bands in the Beijing-Arizona-Taipei-Connecticut (BATC)
survey during the last decades, an effective classifier was designed to separate stars and galaxies
by employing the ANN method. This method was also applied to the classification of the morphological
type of galaxies using tens of photometric parameters.
Undergraduate Work
– Designed a software package which can be invoked to simulate the fractals.
Honors and Awards
Excellent Tri-A Student Scholarship of Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2007
Excellent Tri-A Student Scholarship of Central South University, 2003–2006
Scholarship of Central South University, 2003–2006
“Honorable Mention” in the Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling of America (ICM), 2005
National fellowship of China, 2004
Prize in the China Undergraduate Mathematic Contest in Modeling (CUMCM), 2004
Publications
Journal Papers
H. Zou, Z. Y. Wu, J. Ma, and X. Zhou. The Tidal Tails of Globular Cluster Palomar 5 Based on Neural
Networks Method. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 9(10):1131–1148, Oct. 2009.
Zhang Wei, Li Cheng, Kauffmann, Guinevere, Zou Hu, Catinella Barbara, Shen shiyin, Guo Qi, and
Chang Ruixiang. Estimating the HI gas fractions of galaxies in the local Universe. Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society, 397(3):1243–1253, Aug. 2009.
Hu Zou, Xu Zhou, Zhaoji Jiang, M.C.B. Ashley, Xiangqun Cui, Longlong Feng, Xuefei Gong, Jingyao
Hu, C. A. Kulesa, J.S. Lawrence, Genrong Liu, D.M. Luong-Van, Jun Ma, A. M. Moore, Weijia
Qin, Zhaohui Shang, J.W.V. Storey, Bo Sun, T. Travouillon, C. K. Walker, Jiali Wang, Lifan Wang,
Jianghua Wu, Zhenyu Wu, Lirong Xia, Jun Yan, Ji Yang, Huigen Yang, Yongqiang Yao, Xiangyan
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