Born
February, 1984, Sichuan, China
E-mail:
chenxuhui.phys@gmail.com
Webpage: www.app.physik.uni-potsdam.de/xhchen
2016-present
Senior Data Scientist
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360dialog GmbH
2012-2016
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Scientific Employee)
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University of Potsdam/ DESY
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Institute of Physics and Astronomy/ Astroparticle
Physics
2012 Seismic Imager in Exploration Geophysics
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CGGVeritas
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US Imaging
2006-2011
Ph.D. in Astrophysics
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Rice University
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Department
of Physics and Astronomy
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Advisor:
Giovanni Fossati
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Thesis:
'Understanding the Nature of Blazars High Energy Emission
with Time Dependent Multi-zone Modeling '
2002-2006
B.S. in Space Physics
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The University of Science and Technology of China
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School
of Earth and Space Science
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Advisors:
Yao Chen, Youqiu Hu
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Thesis: Catastrophe of Coronal Flux
Rope in Partially-open Bipolar Magnetic Field (University Excellent Thesis)
PUBLICATION
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Michael Zacharias, Xuhui Chen, Stefan Wagner
“ Attenuation of TeV gamma-rays by the starlight photon field of the host galaxy ”,
2017, MNRAS, 465.3767
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Xuhui Chen, Martin Pohl, Markus Boettcher, Shan Gao
“ Particle diffusion and localized acceleration in inhomogeneous AGN
jets -
Part II: stochastic variation”,
2016, MNRAS, 458.3260
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Haocheng Zhang, Xuhui Chen, Markus Boettcher, Fan Guo, Hui Li,
“Polarization Swings Reveal Magnetic Energy
Dissipation in Blazars ”,
2015, ApJ, 804, 58
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Xuhui Chen, Martin Pohl, Markus Boettcher,
“ Particle diffusion and localized acceleration in inhomogeneous AGN
jets -
Part I: Steady-state spectra”,
2015, MNRAS, 447, 534
• Haocheng Zhang, Xuhui Chen, Markus Boettcher, “Synchrotron Polarization in Blazars”, 2014, ApJ, 789. 66
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Xuhui Chen, Ritaban Chatterjee, Haocheng Zhang, Martin Pohl, Giovanni
Fossati, Markus Boettcher, Charles D. Bailyn,
Erin W. Bonning,
Michelle Buxton, Paolo Coppi, Jedidah Isler, Laura Maraschi, Meg Urry,
“ Magnetic Field Amplification
and Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars
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2014, MNRAS, 441.2188
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Xuhui Chen, Ritaban Chatterjee, Giovanni Fossati, Martin Pohl,
“ Connection between Magnetic Field Amplification and
Blazar Flares”,
2014, Proceeding of “HEPRO IV ” meeting,
Heidelberg, Germany
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Xuhui Chen, Ritaban Chatterjee, Giovanni Fossati, Martin Pohl,
“Magnetic Field Amplification and Blazar Flares”,
2013, Proceeding of “The Innermost Regions of Relativistic Jets and Their Magnetic Fields ”,
Granada, Spain
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Xuhui Chen, Giovanni Fossati,
Markus Boettcher, and Edison P. Liang, “Time-dependent
simulation of emission from
FSRQ PKS
1510-089: multiwavelength variability of External Compton and SSC Models”,
2012, MNRAS, 424, 789
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Giovanni Fossati, Xuhui Chen, “Time-Dependent
Multi-Zone Radiation Transfer Modeling of Fast Blazar Variability”,
2011, Proceeding of‘Jets at all
Scales’, Buenos Aries, Argentina, 275,136
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Xuhui Chen, Giovanni Fossati,
Edison P. Liang, and Markus Boettcher, “X-ray Time Lags in TeV Blazars”, 2011,
Proceeding of
‘Multiwavelength Variability of Blazars’, Guangzhou, China, JApA,
32, 185
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Xuhui Chen, Giovanni Fossati, Edison P. Liang, and
Markus Boettcher, “Time dependent simulations of the blazar Mrk 421
using a Monte Carlo multi-zone code”, 2010, MNRAS, 416,
2368
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Yao Chen, Xuhui Chen, Youqiu Hu,
“Catastrophe of Coronal Flux Rope in Unsheared and Sheared Bipolar Magnetic Field”,
2006, ApJ,
644, 587
with VERITAS collaboration:
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Archambault et al.
“VERITAS Detection of Gamma-Ray Flaring Activity From the BL Lac Object 1ES 1727+502 During Bright Moonlight Observations”,
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Aleksic et al.
“Unprecedented study of the broadband emission of Mrk 421 during flaring activity in March 2010 ”,
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Aleksic et al.
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The 2009 multiwavelength campaign on Mrk 421: Variability and correlation studies ”,
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Aliu et al.
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A Search for Pulsations from Geminga above 100 GeV with VERITAS ”,
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Aliu et al.
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VERITAS Observations of the BL Lac Object PG 1553+113
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D'Ammando et al.
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The most powerful flaring activity from the NLSy1 PMN J0948+0022
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Aleksic et al.
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Multiwavelength observations of Mrk 501 in 2008
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Aliu et al.
“ Investigating Broadband Variability of the TeV Blazar 1ES 1959+650 ”,
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Aliu et al.
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Constraints on Very High Energy Emission from GRB 130427A
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Aliu et al.
“Spatially Resolving the Very High Energy Emission from MGRO J2019+37 with VERITAS
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Aliu et al.
“ Investigating the TeV Morphology of MGRO J1908+06 with VERITAS
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Archambault et al.
“Deep Broadband Observations of the Distant Gamma-Ray Blazar PKS 1424+240
”,
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Aliu et al.
“Observations of the Unidentified Gamma-Ray Source TeV J2032+4130 by VERITAS
”,
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Aliu et al.
“A Three-year Multi-wavelength Study of the Very-high-energy gamma-Ray Blazar 1ES 0229+200
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Aliu et al.
“A search for enhanced very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from the March 2013 Crab Nebula flare
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Aliu et al.
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Long-term TeV and X-ray Observations of the Gamma-ray Binary HESS J0632+057
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Aliu et al.
“Multiwavelength Observations of the TeV Binary LS I +61 303 with VERITAS, Fermi-LAT, and Swift/XRT
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Archambault et al.
“
VERITAS Observations of the Microquasar Cygnus X-3
”, 2013, ApJ, 779, 150A TALKS
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“Particle diffusion and localized acceleration in AGN jets”
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“Time Dependent Modeling of Emission from Blazar Jets”
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“Time Dependent Modeling of Emission from Blazar Jets”
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“Magnetic Field Amplification and Blazar Flares”
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“Magnetic Field Amplification and Blazar Flares”
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“Understanding the Nature of Blazars High Energy Emission with Time Dependent Multi-zone Modeling”
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“Time-Dependent Multi-Zone Radiation Transfer Modeling of Fast Blazar Variability”
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“Time Dependent Simulation of Blazars using a Monte Carlo multi-zone code”
RESEARCH INTRESTS
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High energy astrophysics, Blazars, AGNs, Relativistic Jets, Particle
Acceleration, Solar flares and CMEs.
2015, ApJ, 808, 110A
2015, A&A, 578A, 22A
2015, A&A, 576A, 126A
2015, ApJ, 800, 61A
2015, ApJ, 799, 7A
2015, MNRAS, 446, 2456D
2015, A&A, 573A, 50A
2014, ApJ, 797, 89A
2014, ApJ, 795L, 3A
2014, ApJ, 788, 78A
2014, ApJ, 787, 166A
2014, ApJL, 785, L16
2014, ApJ, 783, 16A
2014, ApJ, 782, 13A
2014, ApJL, 781, 11A
2014, ApJ, 780, 168A
during a TeV Outburst
”, 2013, ApJ, 799, 88A
Talk at '99 years of Black Holes', May 2014 in Potsdam, Germany
Invited seminar at Yale University, Host: Paolo Coppi, September 2013, in New Haven, Conneticut, USA
Invited review talk at 'TeV Jets: Astrophysical Particle Acceleration', August 2013 in Sante Fe,New Mexico, USA
Talk at 'HEPRO IV', July 2013 in Heidelberg, Germany
Talk at 'The Innermost Regions of Relativistic Jets and Their Magnetic Fields', June 2013 in Granada, Spain
Dissertation talk at 'the 219th AAS meeting', January 2012 in Austin, Texas, USA
Talk at 'Multiwavelength Variability of Blazars', September 2010 in Guangzhou, China
Invited seminar at Ohio University, Host: Markus Boettcher, August 2010 in Athens, Ohio, USA