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11 12</head> 13<body> 14<div id="wrapper"> 15 <div id="menu-wrapper"> 16 <nav id="menu" aria-label="Main navigation"> 17 <ul> 18 <li class="current_page_item"><a href="index.html">Home</a></li> 19 <li><a href="research.html">Research</a></li> 20 <li><a href="software.html">Software & Code</a></li> 21 <li><a href="teaching.html">Teaching & Outreach</a></li> 22 <li><a href="links.html">Links</a></li> 23 </ul> 24 </nav> 25 </div> 26 27 <form class="language-form" action="#" method="get"> 28 <label> 29 <span class="muted">Language</span> 30 <select name="choice" class="combobox" data-language-switch> 31 <option value="#">English</option> 32 <option value="cn/index.html">ç®ä½ä¸æ</option> 33 <option value="es/index.html">Español</option> 34 </select> 35 </label> 36 </form> 37 38 <main id="page"> 39 <section class="post site-hero"> 40 <div> 41 <p class="eyebrow">High-mass star formation | Galactic Center | Radio astronomy</p> 42 <h1>Xing "Walker" Lu</h1> 43 <p class="lead">I am a research professor at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences. My work uses radio and submillimeter observations to study how massive stars and clusters form in dense, turbulent molecular clouds, especially in the Central Molecular Zone of the Milky Way.</p> 44 <div class="quick-links" aria-label="Quick links"> 45 <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Email</a> 46 <a href="research.html">Research</a> 47 <a href="https://cmzconcert.github.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CONCERT Campaign</a> 48 <a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#/public-libraries/bCiWtf2ZRuKQ3aBXI4DUCA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Publications on ADS</a> 49 <a href="https://github.com/xinglunju" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GitHub</a> 50 <a href="files/CV_XingLu.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CV (PDF)</a> 51 </div> 52 </div> 53 <figure class="profile-card"> 54 <img src="images/DSC_0012.jpg" alt="Xing Lu"> 55 </figure> 56 </section> 57 58 <section class="post"> 59 <p class="eyebrow">Current Focus</p> 60 <h2>How stars form in extreme Galactic environments</h2> 61 <p>I work across scales from Galactic-plane surveys to sub-1000 AU views of individual protostellar systems. The common thread is connecting cloud-scale dynamics, magnetic fields, fragmentation, and feedback to the growth of massive stars. The <a href="https://cmzconcert.github.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CONCERT campaign</a> brings these measurements together across four representative CMZ clouds.</p> 62 <ul class="tag-list"> 63 <li>Central Molecular Zone</li> 64 <li>CONCERT campaign</li> 65 <li>High-mass star formation</li> 66 <li>ALMA, SMA, VLA, GBT, JCMT</li> 67 <li>Molecular clouds and dense cores</li> 68 <li>Magnetic fields and polarization</li> 69 </ul> 70 <div class="highlight-grid"> 71 <article class="highlight"> 72 <h3>CMZ star formation</h3> 73 <p>Measuring where the dense-gas star formation relation succeeds or fails in the Galactic Center.</p> 74 </article> 75 <article class="highlight"> 76 <h3>Protoclusters</h3> 77 <p>Resolving fragmentation, disks, outflows, and gas streamers around massive protostars.</p> 78 </article> 79 <article class="highlight"> 80 <h3>CONCERT campaign</h3> 81 <p>Coordinating observations from cloud scales to filaments, dense cores, magnetic fields, disks, and feedback in the CMZ.</p> 82 </article> 83 <article class="highlight"> 84 <h3>Analysis tools</h3> 85 <p>Building and sharing Python tools for spectral-line fitting, data cubes, and 3D visualization.</p> 86 </article> 87 </div> 88 </section> 89 90 <section class="post"> 91 <p class="eyebrow">Recent Activity</p> 92 <h2>Selected 2025–2026 updates</h2> 93 <ul class="resource-list"> 94 <li><a href="https://cmzconcert.github.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CONCERT campaign website</a>: a connected map of the publications and subcampaigns that follow CMZ gas from cloud structure to protostellar disks and feedback.</li> 95 <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03883" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sgr C protostar disk and streamers</a>: resolving a Keplerian disk and two-arm streamer feeding system around an early O-type protostar.</li> 96 <li><a href="beforeafter.html">ALMA protostellar disk comparison</a>: interactively compare two observing epochs of a disk in the CMZ.</li> 97 <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20445" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ACES IV</a>: contributing to ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey data products for star-forming regions in the Galactic Center. See the <a href="https://almascience.eso.org/alma-data/lp/aces" target="_blank" rel="noopener">official ACES project and data-release page</a>.</li> 98 <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11098" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ALMA polarization in the 20 km/s Cloud</a>: using dust polarization to probe magnetic-field structure in two massive clumps.</li> 99 <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23700" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CONCERT DUET paper</a>: the Dual-band Unified Exploration of Three CMZ Clouds subproject uses matched 1.3 mm and 3 mm observations for a cloud-wide continuum-source census.</li> 100 </ul> 101 </section> 102 103 <section class="post"> 104 <div class="contact-grid"> 105 <div class="contact-card"> 106 <h2>Email</h2> 107 <p><a href="mailto:[email protected]">xinglv.nju(at)gmail.com</a></p> 108 </div> 109 <div class="contact-card"> 110 <h2>Address</h2> 111 <p>Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences<br> 112 80 Nandan Road, Xuhui, Shanghai 200030, China</p> 113 </div> 114 <div class="contact-card"> 115 <h2>Profiles and Campaigns</h2> 116 <p>
116<a href="https://shao.cas.cn/sourcedb/zw/zjrck/202201/t20220112_6339769.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SHAO personal page</a><br> 117 <a href="https://cmzconcert.github.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CONCERT campaign website</a><br> 118 <span class="muted">INFANT campaign website (forthcoming)</span></p> 119 </div> 120 </div> 121 </section> 122 123 <section class="post"> 124 <figure class="figure"> 125 <img src="images/cube.jpg" alt="A 3D printed glass cube of ALMA CO outflows and dust emission"> 126 <figcaption>A 3D-printed glass cube of CO outflows and dust emission in a Galactic star-forming region observed by ALMA. See the <a href="https://sketchfab.com/models/c47ef72a5fe346f09f67ea4d3fdee1fb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">3D model</a>, the <a href="software.html#TDViz">TDViz code</a>, and <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ApJ...804..141Z" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zhang et al. 2015</a>.</figcaption> 127 </figure> 128 </section> 129 </main> 130 131 <footer id="footer"> 132 <p>© 2026 Xing Lu.</p> 133 </footer> 134 135 <a href="#" class="back-to-top" aria-label="Back to top">Top</a> 136</div> 137</body> 138</html>
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