Gou Lijun
Professor
Department of Astronomy
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China
Biography
Dr. GOU Lijun is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Astronomy, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences , China. Achievementes: We made a first-ever precise measurement to the distance, mass, and spin for the black hole in Cyg X-1 system which is the first black hole prototype. Using MCMC method, we did a multi-band and careful analysis to the afterglow of the first high-redshift Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB), GRB 050904, which is located at z=6.295, and compared its properties with the ones at low redshift.
Research Interest
Black hole physics and its properties (mass and spine), gamma-ray burst including its explosion mechanisms and afterglow evolution, high-energy astrophysics
Publications
-
The Trigonometric Parallax of Cygnus X-1 M. Mark, J. McClintock, R. Ramesh, L. Gou, R. Remillard, J. Orosz，2011, ApJ, 742, 83
-
The Mass of the Black Hole in Cygnus X-1 J. Orosz, J. McClintock, J. Aufdenberg, R. Remillard, M. Reid, R. Narayan, L. Gou，2011, ApJ, 742, 84
-
The Extreme Spin of the Black Hole in Cygnus X-1 L. Gou, J.McClintock, J. Reid Mark, J. Orosz, J. Steiner, R. Narayan, J. Xiang, R. Remillard, K. Arnaud, S. Davis， 2011, ApJ, 742, 85
