About me
I am a final year PhD student in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Maryland, College Park. I work with my advisor, Prof. Massimo Ricotti, on the physics of star formation in galaxies and its role in shaping the Universe, using some of the largest supercomputers in the country. I am currently supported by a NASA FINESST Fellowship (formarly known as NESSF).
Outside of academia, I enjoy listening to classical music, playing piano, driving for pleasure, bicyling, watching movies, and coding for fun.
News
June 2021
I am awarded the Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) Fellowship.
March 2021
I am awarded an Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship.
Research Gallery
Movies and Animations
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Publications
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First-author refereed publications
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C.-C. He, 2021, “A Fast and Accurate Analytic Method of Calculating Galaxy Two-point Correlation Functions”, The Astrophysical Journal, 921, 59.
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C.-C. He, M. Ricotti, & S. Geen, 2020, “Simulating Star Clusters Across Cosmic Time - II. Fraction of Ionizing Photons Escaping from Molecular Clouds”, MNRAS, 492, 4858.
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C.-C. He, M. Ricotti, & S. Geen, 2019, “Simulating Star Clusters Across Cosmic Time - I. Initial Mass Function, Star Formation Rates, and Efficiencies”, MNRAS, 489, 1880-1898
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C.-C. He & L. Keek, 2016, “Anisotropy of X-Ray Bursts from Neutron Stars with Concave Accretion Disks”, ApJ, 819, 47.
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Teaching
Courses I teach as a teaching assistant:
Talks
- AAS 237, “Destructing Molecular Clouds with Photoionization Feedback and the Escape of Ionizing Photons”. iPoster
Blogs
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Medium.com article: Simulating a real solar system with 70 lines of Python code
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["为什么“水池注水“这道小学数学题不符合物理规律？"](https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/99024949) - 知乎
Contact
Email me at che1234@umd.edu