About Me
Prof. Dr. Shiyin Shen
- Vice director of the Astrophysical Division, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory ;
- Deputy leader of the research group Star cluster and Galaxies;
Research Fields
galaxy astronomy
- statistical properties of galaxies and AGNs
X-ray astronomy
- image stacking technique; QSO, clusters of galaxies
LAMOST extragalactic survey
- Survey Strategy, input source catalog
- South galactic Cap U-band Sky Survey (SCUSS)
Research highlights
Statistical properties of galaxies and AGNs
- The statistical nature of the brightest group galaxies [1]
- The size distribution of galaxies [2]
- The Tully-Fisher relation of Spiral galaxies
- The inclination of spiral galaxies
- inclination dependence luminosity function of spiral galaxies: implications on the dust attenuation of galaxies.[5]
- inclination of the host spirals of type II AGNs: implications on the nuclear obscurer of the AGNs.[6]
dust in galaxies
X-ray Astronomy
- Soft X-ray properties of QSOs[10]
- X-ray properties of clusters of galaxies
- X-ray luminosities of optically selected clusters of galaxies[11], and correlations with radio-loud AGN[12]