Scientist

Chao Liu

Positions: CSST science application group leader
Academic Title: professor
E-mail: liuchao@nao.cas.cn
Mailing Address: Chao Liu
Education and Career History

2012-present: Staff member, National Astronomical Observatories, CAS, Beijing, China

2009-2012: Postdoc, Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany

2008-2009: Assistant professor, National Astronomical Observatories, CAS, Beijing 100101, China

2008.7-2008.9: Visiting scholar, Rensselaer Institute of Technology, Troy, NY, USA

2008: PhD degree of Astronomy from National Astronomical Observatories, CAS

1999: Master degree from Department of Computer science, Peking University

1996: Bachelor degree from Department of Applied Mathematics, Beijing Institute of Technology

Research Fields

The Milky Way science, Galactic dynamics, Interstellar medium and interstellar extinction, Stellar astrophysics

Achievements
Selected Publication

1. Tian, Hao, Liu, Chao, Wang, Yougang, Xu, Yan, Yang, Chengqun, Zhang, Bo, and Xue, Xiang-Xiang, Differential Rotation of the Halo Traced by K-giant Stars (2020), The Astrophysical Journal, 899, 110

 

2. Zhang, Bo, Liu, Chao, and Deng, Li-Cai, Deriving the Stellar Labels of LAMOST Spectra with the Stellar LAbel Machine (SLAM) (2020), The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 246, 9

 

3. Liu, Chao, Smoking gun of the dynamical processing of solar-type field binary stars (2019), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490, 550

 

4. Chen, Xiaodian, Wang, Shu, Deng, Licai, de Grijs, Richard, Liu, Chao, and Tian, Hao, An intuitive 3D map of the Galactic warp's precession traced by classical Cepheids (2019), Nature Astronomy, 3, 320

 

5. Wang, Hai-Feng, Liu, Chao, Xu, Yan, Wan, Jun-Chen, and Deng, Licai, Mapping the Milky Way with LAMOST- III. Complicated spatial structure in the outer disc (2018), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478, 3367

 

6. Xu, Yan, Liu, Chao, Xue, Xiang-Xiang, Newberg, Heidi Jo, Carlin, Jeffrey L., Xia, Qi-Ran, Deng, Li-Cai, Li, Jing, Zhang, Yong, Hou, Yonghui, Wang, Yuefei, and Cao, Zihuang, Mapping the Milky Way with LAMOST - II. The stellar halo (2018), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473, 1244

 

7. Liu, Chao, Xu, Yan, Wan, Jun-Chen, Wang, Hai-Feng, Carlin, Jeffrey L., Deng, Li-Cai, Newberg, Heidi Jo, Cao, Zi-Huang, Hou, Yong-Hui, Wang, Yue-Fei, and Zhang, Yong, Mapping the Milky Way with LAMOST I: method and overview (2017), Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 17, 096

 

8. Xia, Qiran, Liu, Chao, Mao, Shude, Song, Yingyi, Zhang, Lan, Long, R. J., Zhang, Yong, Hou, Yonghui, Wang, Yuefei, and Wu, Yue, Determining the local dark matter density with LAMOST data (2016), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 458, 3839

 

9. Tian, Hai-Jun, Liu, Chao, Carlin, Jeffrey L., Zhao, Yong-Heng, Chen, Xue-Lei, Wu, Yue, Li, Guang-Wei, Hou, Yong-Hui, and Zhang, Yong, The Stellar Kinematics in the Solar Neighborhood from LAMOST Data (2015), The Astrophysical Journal, 809, 145

 

10. Liu, Chao, Fang, Min, Wu, Yue, Deng, Li-Cai, Wang, Liang, Wang, Wei, Fu, Jian-Ning, Hou, Yong-Hui, Li, Guang-Wei, and Zhang, Yong, Asteroseismic-based Estimation of the Surface Gravity for the LAMOST Giant Stars (2015), The Astrophysical Journal, 807, 4

 

11. Xu, Yan, Newberg, Heidi Jo, Carlin, Jeffrey L., Liu, Chao, Deng, Licai, Li, Jing, Sch?nrich, Ralph, and Yanny, Brian, Rings and Radial Waves in the Disk of the Milky Way (2015), The Astrophysical Journal, 801, 105

 

12. Liu, Chao, Deng, Li-Cai, Carlin, Jeffrey L., Smith, Martin C., Li, Jing, Newberg, Heidi Jo, Gao, Shuang, Yang, Fan, Xue, Xiang-Xiang, Xu, Yan, Zhang, Yue-Yang, Xin, Yu, Wu, Yue, and Jin, Ge, The K Giant Stars from the LAMOST Survey Data. I. Identification, Metallicity, and Distance (2014), The Astrophysical Journal, 790, 110

 

13. Liu, C., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Sordo, R., Vallenari, A., Borrachero, R., Luri, X., and Sartoretti, P., The expected performance of stellar parametrization with Gaia spectrophotometry (2012), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 426, 2463

 

14. Liu, Chao and van de Ven, Glenn, Chemo-orbital evidence from SDSS/SEGUE G-type dwarf stars for a mixed origin of the Milky Way's thick disc (2012), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 425, 2144

 

15. Garbari, Silvia, Liu, Chao, Read, Justin I., and Lake, George, A new determination of the local dark matter density from the kinematics of K dwarfs (2012), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 425, 1445

 

16. Deng, Li-Cai, Newberg, Heidi Jo, Liu, Chao, Carlin, Jeffrey L., Beers, Timothy C., Chen, Li, Chen, Yu-Qin, Christlieb, Norbert, Grillmair, Carl J., Guhathakurta, Puragra, Han, Zhan-Wen, Hou, Jin-Liang, Lee, Hsu-Tai, Lépine, Sébastien, Li, Jing, Liu, Xiao-Wei, Pan, Kai-Ke, Sellwood, J. A., Wang, Bo, Wang, Hong-Chi, Yang, Fan, Yanny, Brian, Zhang, Hao-Tong, Zhang, Yue-Yang, Zheng, Zheng, and Zhu, Zi, LAMOST Experiment for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (LEGUE) — The survey's science plan (2012), Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 12, 735