Colloquium | FY 2025

Regular Schedule:
• Time: Fridays, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (not held weekly)
• Location: Room 504, 5th Floor, Building 4, Graduate School of Science (Astrophysics Lecture Room)

If you consider giving a talk at the colloqioum, plase feel free to contact any of the faculty of members.

Host: Keiichi Maeda (email: keiichi.maeda_at_kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp)

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第651回
Speaker: Shota Notsu (The University of Tokyo)
Date: 6/6 Friday
Time: 16:00 – 17:00
Place: Room 504 seminar room, building 4
Title: TBD
Abstract: TBD

第650回
Speaker: Kate Follette (Amherst College）
Date: Friday 5/23
Time: 16:00 – 17:00
Place: Room 504 seminar room, building 4
Title: TBD
Abstract: TBD

第649回
Speaker: Jian Jiang (University of Science and Technology of China)
Date: Wednesday 4/16
Time: 15:30 – 16:30
Place: Room 504 seminar room, building 4
Title: Fast Transient Studies in the First Year Operation of the Wide Field Survey Telescope
Abstract: Transients with fast brightness variance in UV/optical (“fast transients”), such as early-phase supernovae (SNe), fast blue ultraluminous transients (FBUTs or LFBOTs), kilonovae, are of great interest in time-domain astronomy. Given their rapid brightness variance and shallow depths of transient surveys with (sub-)meter class telescopes, fast transient observations are still limited. The Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST or “Mozi”) is a 2.5 m optical telescope with a high throughput at blue wavelengths and equipped with a mosaic CCD camera covering a field of view of 6.5 square degree, making WFST one of the most powerful fast transient survey facilities in the world. The telescope carried out a pilot survey from Mar 6 to Jul 10, 2024 and has started the formal 6-year survey from Dec 14, 2024. In this talk, I’m going to introduce the current status of WFST and transient sciences through the WFST global time-domain network in the past year.