Space Astronomy Instrumentation Lab (SAIL)
Research Field
The PI is professor of astronomy and physics at NTHU. he has broad interests in high-energy astrophysics observation and instrumentation.
Please visit http://w3.phys.nthu.edu.tw/~hkchang/ for more details.
The lab (SAIL) members include the PI, visiting scholars, postdocs, graduate students, and assistants. Working language is English. There are regular group meetings, sub-group meetings, and project meetings.
Science topics of this lab include pulsars and pulsar wind nebulae, X-ray binaries, magnetars and Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). Two space instrument projects are on-going. One is the Gamma-ray Transients Monitor (GTM) and the other is Gamma-ray Polarimeter and Monitor (GPM). GTM will fly on Formosat-8B, scheduled to launch in late 2026. GPM will fly on Formosat-8D to launch in 2028. Formosat-8 is a series of remote sensing satellite of Taiwan Spce Agency (TASA).
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Doctor of Natural Sciences in Astronomy, Bonn University, Germany, 1994
Master of Sciences in Physics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 1991
Bachelor of Sciences in Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 1987
Job Description
The data to analyze is that of RXTE/PCA and NuSTAR.
Preferred Intern Educational Level
Strongly motivated undergradduates.
Skill sets or Qualities
Programing in C or Python.