Chen, Ke-Jung 陳科榮

Assistant Research Fellow

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Office: ASMAB 1420

Email: kjchenasiaa.sinica.edu.tw

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My Publications from ADS

Research Interests

My research interest in computational astrophysics focuses on modeling the supernovae explosions and their cosmological impact by using multidimensional hydrodynamics/radiation/cosmological simulations. These supernovae are from the death of massive stars triggered by core-collapse, magnetar, pair-instability, and general-relativity instability.

World’s First 3D Simulations Reveal the Physics of Superluminous Supernovae

First galaxies

Hydrodynamical evolution of supernovae and its effect on galaxy evolution

The HII region around the first star

Hypernovae and GRB

CASTRO AMR

3D pair-instability supernova model

3D radiation hydrodynamical simulation of Colliding Shells

How a supernova affects a nearby star-forming galaxy?

An exploding supermassive star

Chemical Enrichment of the First Supernovae

Magnetar-powered Superluminous Supernovae

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Positions

• Assistant Research Fellow, ASIAA (2018~present)
• Affiliated Center Scientist, National Center for Theoretical Sciences (2020~2021)
• EACOA Fellow, NAOJ and ASIAA (2015~2018)
• IAU-Gruber Fellow, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz, USA (2013~2015)
• Johnston Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Minnesota, USA (2012~2013)
• KITP Graduate Fellow, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, USA (2012)

Education

• Physics PhD, University of Minnesota (2013)

Honors & Awards

• Career Development Award, Academic Sinica (2021)
• Mentoring Award for College Student Research, MOST (2020)
• Outstanding Mentor Award, National Taiwan Science Education Center (2019)
• Young Scholar Innovation Award, Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship (2019)
• Recruiting Special Outstanding Talent Award, MOST (2018)
• Initial Employment Academic Research Award, Academic Sinica (2018)
• The finalist in Poster and Graphics, NSF Scientific Visualization Competition (Vizzies) (2016)
• The Best Dissertation, Honorable Mention, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2015)
• EACOA Fellowship (2015)
• The NERSC Achievement Award, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2015)
• IAU Gruber Fellowship (2013)
• APS Travel Award for Excellence in Graduate Research (2 awards) (2012~2013)
• Johnston Fellowship, University of Minnesota, USA (2012)
• UC HiPACC Travel Grant (3 awards) (2011~2014)
• APS DAP Travel Award (2 awards) (2011~2012)
• AAS International Travel Grant (5 awards) (2010~2014)
• KITP Graduate Fellowship, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (2012)
• Grants-in-Aid for Research, Sigma Xi Foundation (2012)
• APS International Travel Grant (2011)
• The Best Poster Prize, Research Exhibition of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (2011)
• The Best Paper Prize, Cefalu Meeting: Advances in Computational Astrophysics (2011)
• Thesis Research Grant, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2010)
• NSF International Travel Grant (2009)
• Edmond Franklin Fellowship, Physics Department, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2008)

Professional and Academic Societies

• Member, International Astronomical Union (IAU) (2018)
• Associate Member, Sigma Xi (2012~2015)
• Member, American Astronomical Society (AAS) (2010~2015)
• Member, American Physical Society (APS) (2010~2015)
• Member, SciDAC Computational Astrophysics Consortium (2009~2012)

Journal Papers affiliated with ASIAA(19)

1. Chen K-J; Tang C-Y; Whalen DJ; Ho M-Y; Tsai S-H; Ou P-S; Ono M, "How Population III Supernovae Determined the Properties of the First Galaxies", ApJ: 964(1), id.91 (12pp), Mar, 2024 [SCI] ( ADS | Fulltext )
2. Chen K-J; Whalen DJ; Woosley SE; Zhang W, "Multidimensional Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations of Pulsational Pair-Instability Supernovae", ApJ: 955(1), id.39 (12pp), Sep, 2023 [SCI] ( ADS | Fulltext )
3. Chen K-J, "Physics of superluminous supernovae", Int J Mod Phys D: 30(4), id.2130001-164, 2021 [SCI] ( ADS | Fulltext )
4. Chen K-J; Woosley SE; Whalen DJ, "Gas Dynamics of the Nickel-56 Decay Heating in Pair-instability Supernovae", ApJ: 897(2), id.152 (14pp.), Jul, 2020 [SCI] ( ADS | Fulltext )
5. Chen K-J; Woosley SE; Whalen DJ, "Three-dimensional Simulations of Magnetar-powered Superluminous Supernovae", ApJ: 893(2), id.99 (10pp.), Apr, 2020 [SCI] ( ADS | Fulltext )
6. Chen K-J; Whalen DJ; Wollenberg KMJ; et al., "How the First Stars Regulated Star Formation. II. Enrichment by Nearby Supernovae", ApJ: 844(2), 111, Aug, 2017 [SCI] ( ADS | Fulltext )
7. Chen K-J; Heger A; Whalen DJ; Moriya TJ; Bromm V; Woosley SE, "Low-energy Population III supernovae and the origin of extremely metal-poor stars", MNRAS: 467(4), 4731-4738, June, 2017 [SCI] ( ADS | Fulltext )
8. Chen K-J; Moriya TJ; Woosley S; et al., "Magnetar-powered Supernovae in Two Dimensions. II. Broad-line Supernovae Ic", ApJ: 839(2), 85, April 18, 2017 [SCI] ( ADS | Fulltext )
9. Chen K-J; Woosley SE; Sukhbold T, "Magnetar-Powered Supernovae in Two Dimensions. I. Superluminous Supernovae", ApJ: 832(1), 73, Nov 20, 2016 [SCI] ( ADS | Fulltext )
10. Chen W-Y; Chen K-J; Ono M, "Multidimensional Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations of SN 1987A Shock Breakout", ApJ: 976(1), id.147 (22 pp), Nov, 2024 [SCI] ( ADS | Fulltext )
11. You K-A; Chen K-J; Pan Y-C; Tsai S-H; Ou P-S, "Modeling the Progenitor Stars of Observed Type IIP Supernovae", ApJ: 970(2), id.145, Aug, 2024 [SCI] ( ADS | Fulltext )
12. Ono M; Nozawa T; Nagataki S; Kozyreva A; Orlando S; Miceli M; Chen K-J, "The impact of effective matter mixing based on three-dimensional hydrodynamical models on the molecule formation in the ejecta of SN 1987A", ApJS: 271(1), id.33 (57pp), Mar, 2024 [SCI] ( ADS | Fulltext )
13. Tang C-Y; Chen K-J, "Clumpy Structures within the Turbulent Primordial Cloud", MNRAS: 529(4), 4248-4261, Mar, 2024 [SCI] ( ADS | Fulltext )
14. Orlando S; Greco E; Hirai R; Matsuoka T; Miceli M; Nagataki S; Ono M; Chen KJ; Milisavljevic D; Patnaude D; Bocchino F; Elias-Rosa N, "Constraining the CSM structure and progenitor mass-loss history of interacting supernovae through 3D hydrodynamic modeling: The case of SN 2014C", ApJ, 2024, Accepted [SCI] ( ADS | Fulltext )
15. Lin C-H; Chen K-J; Hwang C-Y, "Rapid Growth of Galactic Supermassive Black Holes through Accreting Giant Molecular Clouds during Major Mergers of their Host Galaxies", ApJ: 952(2), id.121 (13 pp), Aug, 2023 [SCI] ( ADS | Fulltext )
16. Tsai S-H; Chen K-J; Whalen D; Ou P-S; Woods TE, "The Evolution of Population III and Extremely Metal-Poor Binary Stars", ApJ: 951(2), id.84, July, 2023 [SCI] ( ADS | Fulltext )
17. Ou P-S; Chen K-J; Chu Y-H; Tsai S-H, "Critical Metallicity of Cool Supergiant Formation. I. Effects on Stellar-mass Loss and Feedback", ApJ: 944(1), id.34 (17 pp), Feb, 2023 [SCI] ( ADS | Fulltext )
18. Moriya TJ; Chen K-J; Nakajima K; Tominaga N; Blinnikov SI, "Observational properties of a general relativistic instability supernova from a primordial supermassive star", MNRAS: 503(1), 1206-1213, May, 2021 [SCI] ( ADS | Fulltext )
19. Woods TE; Agarwal B; Bromm V; ...; Chen K-J; et al., "Titans of the early Universe: The Prato statement on the origin of the first supermassive black holes", PASA: 36, id. e027 (38 pp.), Jan, 2019 [SCI] ( ADS | Fulltext )