Bingjie Wang / 王冰洁
PhD candidate // Astrophysics
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Hi there,
I am a graduate student at the Johns Hopkins University.
My research focuses on cosmology and extragalactic astronomy.
My CV can be viewed here.Education
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
2016 -- 2021
Ph.D., Astronomy & Astrophysics
Advisor: Prof. Timothy M. HeckmanUniversity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 2012 -- 2016
Magna Cum Laude
B.A., Philosophy
B.Phil., Physics, offered by Honors College
Advisor: Prof. Arthur B. Kosowsky
RESEARCH
galaxy evolution / reionization / 21-cm cosmology / cosmic microwave background
In general terms, my research spans from galactic evolution to phenomenological models of the universe.
Currently, I work on two topics: the escape of ionizing radiation and galactic outflows.
The former concerns the processes in early galaxies that enable a substantial fraction of
their Lyman-continuum radiation to escape the dense interstellar medium, which is crucial in understanding the epoch of reionization (slides from my AAS dissertation talk).
The latter is on the physical processes governing starburst-driven outflows, which are often invoked as the principal feedback mechanism in models of galaxy formation and evolution.
Previously, I have been involved in the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS), whose primary goal is to detect and characterize the primordial B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background -- a unique signature left by the primordial gravitational waves as posited in the theory of Inflation.
Before coming to Johns Hopkins, I worked on theoretical studies of large-angle anomalies -- phenomena revealed by measurements of the microwave background that are statistically unlikely to occur in ΛCDM.
Primary-author Publications
The Low-redshift Lyman-continuum Survey: [S II] deficiency and the leakage of ionizing radiation
Bingjie Wang, Timothy M. Heckman, and the survey collaboration, Astrophys. J. 916, 3 (2021).
(Featured in AAS Journal Author Series)
Bingjie Wang, Timothy M. Heckman, Guangtun Zhu, Colin A. Norman, Astrophys. J. 894, 149 (2020).
A new technique for finding galaxies leaking Lyman-continuum radiation: [S II] deficiency
Bingjie Wang, Timothy M. Heckman, Claus Leitherer, et al., Astrophys. J. 885, 57 (2019).
Duncan J. Watts, Bingjie Wang, and the CLASS collaboration, Astrophys. J. 863, 121 (2018).
Microwave background correlations from dipole anisotropy modulation
Simone Aiola, Bingjie Wang, Arthur Kosowsky, et al., Phys. Rev. D 92 (6), 063008 (2015).
Gaussian approximation of peak values in the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect
Simone Aiola, Arthur Kosowsky, and Bingjie Wang, Phys. Rev. D 91 (4), 043510 (2015).