LEUNG Po Kin
Senior Lecturer
Phone |
(852) 39434078 |
Email |
pkleung(at)cuhk.edu.hk |
Office |
Room 220, 2/F, Science Centre North Block |
Education:
- PhD, Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010
- MPhil, Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002
- BSc, Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000
Position:
- 2022-now, Senior Lecturer, Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2012-2022, Lecturer, Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2010-2012, Postdoctoral Researcher, Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Interest:
- Astrophysics
- Compact Objects
- Radiative Transfer
Selected Recent Publications:
- C. F. Gammie and P. K. Leung, "A Formalism for Covariant Polarized Radiative Transport by Ray Tracing", Astrophysical Journal 752, 123 (2012).
- P. K. Leung, C. F. Gammie, and S. C. Noble, "Numerical Calculation of Magnetobremsstrahlung Emission and Absorption Coefficients", Astrophysical Journal 737, 21 (2011).
- M. Mościbrodzka, C. F. Gammie, J. C. Dolence, H. Shiokawa, and P. K. Leung, "Radiative Models of SGR A* from GRMHD Simulations", Astrophysical Journal 706, 497 (2009).
- J. C. Dolence, C. F. Gammie, M. Mościbrodzka, and P. K. Leung, "grmonty: A Monte Carlo Code for Relativistic Radiative Transport", Astrophysical Journal Supplement 184, 387 (2009).
- S. C. Noble, P. K. Leung, C. F. Gammie, and L. G. Book, "Simulating the Emission and Outflows from Accretion Discs", Classical and Quantum Gravity 24, S259.