Stellar Physics,

Stellar structure and evolution,

Binary star evolution

2000.9-2004.6:  Hebei University

2004.9-2010.7: Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences

   

2020.10-             : Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor

2022.01-2023.01: University of Cambridge, Academic Visitor

2018.05-2019.05: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Visiting Scholar

2016.08-2020.10: Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor

2013.01-2014.01: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Visiting Scholar

2010.07-2016.08: Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Assistant Professor

[1] Ge, Hongwei; Tout, Christopher Adam; Chen, Xuefei; Wang, Song; Xiong, Jianping; Zhang, Lifu; Liu, Qingzhong; Han, Zhanwen. Adiabatic Mass Loss in Binary Stars. V. Effects of Metallicity and Nonconservative Mass Transfer -- Application in High Mass X-ray Binaries. The Astrophysical Journal[J]. 2024, 975, id 254, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad7ea6

[2] Ge, Hongwei; Tout, Christopher A.; Webbink, Ronald F.; Chen, Xuefei; Sarkar, Arnab; Li, Jiao; Li, Zhenwei; Zhang, Lifu; Han, Zhanwen. The Common Envelope Evolution Outcome. II. Short-orbital-period Hot Subdwarf B Binaries Reveal a Clear Picture. The Astrophysical Journal[J]. 2024, 961(2), id 202, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad158e

[3] Zhang, Lifu; Ge, Hongwei; Chen, Xuefei; Han, Zhanwen. Adiabatic Mass Loss in Binary Stars. IV. Low- and Intermediate-mass Helium Binary Stars. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series[J]. 2024, 274(1), id. 11, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ad6263

[4] Wang, Song; Zhao, Xinlin; Feng, Fabo; Ge, Hongwei; Shao, Yong; Cui, Yingzhen; Gao, Shijie; Zhang, Lifu; Wang, Pei; Li, Xue; Bai, Zhongrui; Yuan, Hailong; Huang, Yang; Yuan, Haibo; Zhang, Zhixiang; Yi, Tuan; Xiang, Maosheng; Li, Zhenwei; Li, Tanda; Zhang, Junbo; Zhang, Meng; Han, Henggeng; Fan, Dongwei; Li, Xiangdong; Chen, Xuefei; Liu, Zhengwei; Meng, Xiangcun; Liu, Qingzhong; Zhang, Haotong; Gu, Wei-Min; Liu, Jifeng. A potential mass-gap black hole in a wide binary with a circular orbit. Nature Astronomy[J], 2024, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02359-9

[5] Chen, Zhangliang; Chen, Yizhi; Chen, Chen; Ge, Hongwei; Ma, Bo. Probing the shape of the brown dwarf desert around main-sequence A-F-G-type stars using post-common-envelope WD-BD binaries. Astronomy & Astrophysics[J]. 2024, 687, id A256, https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2024/07/aa48870-23.pdf

[6] Li, Zhenwei; Zhang, Yangyang; Chen, Hailiang; Ge, Hongwei; Jiang, Dengkai; Li, Jiangdan; Chen, Xuefei; Han, Zhanwen. A New Route to Massive Hot Subdwarfs: Common Envelope Ejection from Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars. The Astrophysical Journal[J]. 2024, 964(1), id. 22, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad2206

[7] Xiong, Jianping; Ding, Xu; Li, Jiadong; Ge, Hongwei; Cheng, Qiyuan; Ji, Kaifan; Han, Zhanwen; Chen, Xuefei. The Distribution of Semidetached Binaries. I. An Efficient Pipeline. Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series[J]. 2024, 270(2), id. 20, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ad0ceb

[8] Zhao, Zi-Qi; Li, Zhen-Wei; Xiao, Lin; Ge, Hong-Wei; Han, Zhan-Wen. The radius variations of accreting main-sequence stars and mass transfer instability. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters[J]. 2024, 531(1), L45-L51, https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/531/1/L45/7643647

[9] Guo, Yun-Lang; Wang, Bo; Chen, Wen-Cong; Li, Xiang-Dong; Ge, Hong-Wei; Jiang, Long; Han, Zhan-Wen. Electron-capture supernovae in NS + He star systems and the double neutron star systems. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society[J], Volume 530(4), pp.4461-4473, https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/530/4/4461/7657820

[10] Hongwei Ge, Christopher A Tout, Xuefei Chen, Arnab Sarkar, Dominic J Walton, Zhanwen Han. Criteria for Dynamical Timescale Mass Transfer of Metal-poor Intermediate-mass Stars. THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL[J]. 2023, 945(1), id 7, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acb7e9.
[11] Ge, Hongwei, Tout, Christopher A, Chen, Xuefei, Kruckow, Matthias U, Chen, Hailiang, Jiang, Dengkai, Li, Zhenwei, Liu, Zhengwei, Han, Zhanwen. The Common Envelope Evolution Outcome-A Case Study on Hot Subdwarf B Stars. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL[J]. 2022, 933(2), id 137, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac75d3.

[12] Arnab Sarkar, Hongwei Ge, Christopher A Tout. Evolved cataclysmic variables as progenitors of AM CVn stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society[J]. 2023, 520(2), 3187-3200, https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/520/2/3187/7022328.

[13] Arnab Sarkar, Hongwei Ge, Christopher A Tout. New insights into the helium star formation channel of AM CVn systems with explanations of Gaia14aae and ZTFJ1637+49. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society[J]. 2023, 519(2), 2567-2577, https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/519/2/2567/6918852.

[14] Zhenwei Li, Xuefei Chen, Hongwei Ge, Hailiang Chen, Zhanwen Han. Influence of a mass transfer stability criterion on double white dwarf populations. Astronomy & Astrophysics[J]. 2023, 669, id A82, https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/01/aa43893-22/aa43893-22.html.

[15] Liao Li (李蛟), Jiang-Dan Li (李江丹), Yan-Jun Guo (郭彦君), Zhan-Wen Han (韩占文), Xue-Fei Chen (陈雪飞), Chao Liu (刘超), Hong-Wei Ge (葛宏伟), Deng-Kai Jiang (姜登凯), Li-Fang Li (李立芳), Bo Zhang (章博), Jia-Ming Liu (刘佳明), Hao Tian (田浩), Hao-Tong Zhang (张昊彤), Hai-Long Yuan (袁海龙), Wen-Yuan Cui (崔文元), Juan-Juan Ren (任娟娟), Jing-Hao Cai (蔡靖豪) and Jian-Rong Shi (施建荣). LAMOST medium-resolution spectroscopic survey of binarity and exotic star (LAMOST-MRS-B): Observation strategy and target selection. Chinese Physics B[J]. 2023, 32(1), id.019501, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-1056/ac9362.

[16] Yongzhi Cai et al. Forbidden hugs in pandemic times. III. Observations of the luminous red nova AT 2021biy in the nearby galaxy NGC 4631. Astronomy & Astrophysics[J]. 2023, 667, id A4, https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/11/aa44393-22/aa44393-22.html.

[17] Ge, Hongwei, Webbink, Ronald F, Chen, Xuefei, Han, Zhanwen. Adiabatic Mass Loss in Binary Stars. III. From the Base of the Red Giant Branch to the Tip of the Asymptotic Giant Branch. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL[J]. 2020, 899(2), id 132, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aba7b7.
[18] Ge, Hongwei, Webbink, Ronald F, Han, Zhanwen. The Thermal Equilibrium Mass-loss Model and Its Applications in Binary Evolution. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES[J]. 2020, 249(1), id 9, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ab98f6.
[19] Han, ZhanWen, Ge, HongWei, Chen, XueFei, Chen, HaiLiang. Binary Population Synthesis. RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS[J]. 2020, 20(10): 207-220, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-4527/20/10/161.
[20] Liu, D, Wang, B, Ge, H, Chen, X, Han, Z. The progenitors of type-Ia supernovae in semidetached binaries with red giant donors. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS[J]. 2019, 622, id A35, https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/02/aa33010-18/aa33010-18.html.
[21] Ge, Hongwei, Webbink, Ronald F, Chen, Xuefei, Han, Zhanwen. ADIABATIC MASS LOSS IN BINARY STARS. II. FROM ZERO-AGE MAIN SEQUENCE TO THE BASE OF THE GIANT BRANCH. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL[J]. 2015, 812(1), id 40, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/812/1/40.
[22] Lei, ZhenXin, Zhang, FengHui, Ge, HongWei, Han, ZhanWen. Synthetic horizontal branch morphology for different metallicities and ages under tidally enhanced stellar wind. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS[J]. 2013, 554: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2013/06/aa20998-12/aa20998-12.html.
[23] Ivanova, N, Justham, S, Chen, X, De Marco, O, Fryer, C L, Gaburov, E, Ge, H, Glebbeek, E, Han, Z, Li, X D, Lu, G, Marsh, T, Podsiadlowski, P, Potter, A, Soker, N, Taam, R, Tauris, T M, van den Heuvel, E P J, Webbink, R F. Common envelope evolution: where we stand and how we can move forward. ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS REVIEW[J]. 2013, 21: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00159-013-0059-2.
[24] Jiang, Dengkai, Han, Zhanwen, Ge, Hongwei, Yang, Liheng, Li, Lifang. The short-period limit of contact binaries. MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY[J]. 2012, 421(4): 2769-2773, https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/421/4/2769/1083522.
[25] Ge, Hongwei, Webbink, Ronald F, Han, Zhanwen, Chen, Xuefei. Stellar adiabatic mass loss model and applications. ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE[J]. 2010, 329(1-2): 243-248, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-010-0286-1.
[26] Ge, Hongwei, Hjellming, Michael S, Webbink, Ronald F, Chen, Xuefei, Han, Zhanwen. ADIABATIC MASS LOSS IN BINARY STARS. I. COMPUTATIONAL METHOD. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL[J]. 2010, 717(2): 724-738, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/717/2/724.

Stellar Physics,

Stellar structure and evolution,

Binary star evolution,

Rapid mass transfer process,

Common envelope evolution

   

Binary Stars in a New Era 

Lijiang, China 

24-30 Aug 2025 

Webpage: https://binarystars2025.casconf.cn/

Professor Christopher A Tout, University of Cambridge

Professor Ronald F Webbink, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Associate Professor Song Wang, National Astronomical Observatory

Diogo Teixeira Belloni, Young Investigator Grant from The São Paulo Research Foundation

Staff Scientist Veronika Schaffenroth, Thuringian State Observatory

Postdoc. Yunlang Guo, Nanjing University

Ph.D. student Arnab Sarkar (Supervisor Prof. Christoper Tout), University of Cambridge

Ph.D. student Zhangliang Chen (Supervisor Prof. Bo Ma), Sun Yat-sen University

现指导学生

张力夫  博士研究生  070401-天体物理  

郑日中  硕士研究生  070401-天体物理  

施彦旭  硕士研究生  070401-天体物理