Urumqi Observatory (17 July,2005)
About Us
The Urumqi Observatory (UO) of National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, was established in 1957, now is one of important observation and research bases of NAOC, and also a member of the key lab of radio astronomy in CAS.
In UO, as well as international VLBI observations, with the 25m radio telescope, the staff members and researchers are actively involved in radio astronomy, especially in the fields of pulsar, AGN, star-formation and evolution, and radio astronomy techniques. UO is routinely involved in the observations of artificial satellites, and observation as a GPS station.
By 2007, UO has total staff 62, of them 30 are the members of the 'innovation project’ of CAS, 4 professor level researchers and 16 associate professors and senior engineers, and 4 advisory professors from universities and 1 from abroad. Doctorate and postgraduate level positions as well as post-doc position are available at UO, currently 2 doctorate and 29 postgraduate students are supervised at the institute.
Nanshan Base of Urumqi Observatory (16 May, 2005)
Since the 25m radio telescope found in 1994, UO, as an important VLBI station, became formal members of 4 international VLBI networks, and joined 7 international collaboration programs. The station also participated in the National Large Scientific Project of China and Chinese lunar project (Chang’E) as one of 4 VLBI stations which serves for the orbit determination of Chang’E lunar satellite.
Through domestic and international collaborations, UO established a pulsar observation system and a research group, since then became a major pulsar research base in China and a lot of scientific results are gained. UO is also a centimeter-wavelength molecular line and AGN observation site in China. UO is a member of the space object and debris observation network of CAS.
The major facilities are the 25m radio telescope, GPS station at UO. By one’s own effort and international collaboration, engineers at UO have built a set of equipments and observing systems, especially the cm-wavelength low-noise radio receivers and the data acquisition terminals.
The 25m Radio Telescope (14 May, 2007)
International co-operations and exchanges are frequent, with countries and regions including U.S., The Netherlands, Australia, Japan, Germany, England, Italy, Russia, Sweden, Taiwan and Hong Kong of China. Visits are increased in recent year, we received 160 and sent 70 since year 2000.
UO has gained 22 national and provincial rewards, and 2 symposium proceedings and 70 international level papers have been published.
UO is the host of the astronomical society of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the Nanshan observation base of UO is one of technological and popular science education bases for young students. Various astronomical activities were organized by UO and the Xinjiang astronomical society, this education base has been rewarded as an excellent base by national, provincial and city governments.