🔭About Me
Yuze Guo (born November 2003) is a physics undergraduate at Wuhan University (Project 985). A National Scholarship recipient from the Ministry of Education, he has been researching under Professor Wei Wang since April 2024 in the Department of Astronomy—modeling distortions in rotating neutron stars due to strong magnetic fields, potential sources of continuous gravitational waves.
Passionate about astronomy since high school, Yuze led the astronomy associations at both his high school and university, and won a gold medal at the XIV International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA 2021). He is proficient in Mandarin, Cantonese, and English, and is currently learning Japanese. An enthusiast of rail transit systems and Japanese anime, Yuze draws inspiration from Guangzhou, his historic yet modern hometown.
- Gravitational Wave Astronomy
- Compact Stars
- Cosmology
BSc Physics
Wuhan University
Supervised by Prof. Wei Wang, we are investigating the continuous gravitational waves (CGWs) from magnetically distorted neutron stars (MDNSs).
Gravitational radiation from rotating neutron stars originates from its axial asymmetry of mass distribution, and deformed neutron stars are long thought to be a type of promising source of such radiation. In this work, a triaxial ellipsoid model established in order to describe such a distorted neutron star. Our main goal is to calculate the distortion and GW due to the strong magnetic field of the star.
We have found a rotation-magnetic field coupling effect that can significantly enhance the GW signal from MDNSs, making it detectable by the next-generation GW detectors. Publication is under preparation.
