Jiayi Sun
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Jiayi Sun
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Astronomer @ Princeton University (NASA Hubble Fellow) | 孙嘉懿 | he/him | https://astrojysun.github.io
My (semi-qualitative) argument is that, among all regular polygon that can tile a plane, hexagon is the closest to circle (so closest to the gaussian psf we use extensively).

But Adam's preference of hexagon certainly played a key role as well ;)
April 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I use ALMA and VLA a lot in my research and would love to be added to the list!
November 17, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Batavia NY, very cloudy...
April 8, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Not sure why the original post has no webpage preview... But I have to say I'm quite proud of the paper title: "Hidden Gems on a Ring: Infant Massive Clusters and Their Formation Timeline Unveiled by ALMA, HST, and JWST in NGC 3351"
Hidden Gems on a Ring: Infant Massive Clusters and Their Formation...
We study young massive clusters (YMCs) in their embedded "infant" phase with $\sim$0.1" ALMA, HST, and JWST observations targeting the central starburst ring in NGC 3351, a nearby Milky Way analog...
arxiv.org
January 29, 2024 at 4:19 AM
Reposted by Jiayi Sun
🧪🔭 #MilkyWay23 Jiayi Sun starting to put MW in context
October 27, 2023 at 9:17 PM