Current Position:
Research Staff, National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China, 2017-current
Deputy Chief Designer of the Science Application System, the Einstein Probe Mission (launch date: 2022-2023), 2018-current
Previous Positions:
Postdoc (DLR fellowship), Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), Germany, 2015-2017
Research Scientist, Qianxuesen Laboratory of Space Technology, Chinese Academy of Space Technology, China, 2014-2015
Visiting Scholar, Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 2012-2013
Education:
PhD: Dept. of Physics, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom, 2008-2012 (Durham Doctoral Fellowship)
BSc: Dept. of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2004-2008
Research Interests:
Active Galactic Nuclei: X-ray Spectral Variability, Multi-wavelength Study
Intersteller Medium: X-ray Dust Scattering
X-ray Transients
Funding:
National Natural Science Foundation of China: No. 11873054 (Lead)
Refereed Publications as 1st author:
- Jin C., Done C., Ward M., 2021, MNRAS, 500, 2475, Re-observing the NLS1 Galaxy RE J1034+396. II. New Insights on the Soft X-ray Excess, QPO and the Analogy with GRS 1915+105
- Jin C., Done C., Ward M., 2020, MNRAS, 495, 3538, Re-observing the NLS1 Galaxy RE J1034+396. I. the Long-term, Recurrent X-ray QPO with a High Significance
- Jin C., Ponti G., Guang X., Bogensberger D., 2019, ApJ, 875, 157, Exploring the Interstellar Medium Using an Asymmetric X-Ray Dust Scattering Halo
- Jin C., Ponti G., Haberl F., Smith R., Valencic L., 2018, MNRAS, 477, 3480, Effects of interstellar dust scattering on the X-ray eclipses of the LMXB AX J1745.6-2901 in the Galactic Centre
- Jin C., Done C., Ward M., 2017a, MNRAS, 468, 3663, Super-Eddington QSO RX J0439.6-5311 – I. Origin of the soft X-ray excess and structure of the inner accretion flow
- Jin C., Done C., Ward M., Gardner E., 2017b, MNRAS, 471, 706, Super-Eddington QSO RX J0439.6-5311 – II. Multiwavelength constraints on the global structure of the accretion flow
- Jin C., Ponti G., Haberl F., Smith R., 2017c, MNRAS, 468, 2532, Probing the interstellar dust towards the Galactic Centre: dust-scattering halo around AX J1745.6-2901
- Jin C., Done C., Ward M., 2016, MNRAS, 455, 691, Strong constraints on a super-Eddington accretion flow: XMM-Newton observations of an intermediate-mass black hole
- Jin C., Done C., Middleton M., Ward M., 2013, MNRAS, 436, 3173, A long XMM-Newton observation of an extreme narrow-line Seyfert 1: PG 1244+026
- Jin C., Ward M., Done C., Gelbord J., 2012a, MNRAS, 420, 1825, A combined optical and X-ray study of unobscured type 1 active galactic nuclei – I. Optical spectra and spectral energy distribution modelling
- Jin C., Ward M., Done C., 2012b, MNRAS, 422, 3268, A combined optical and X-ray study of unobscured type 1 active galactic nuclei – II. Relation between X-ray emission and optical spectra
- Jin C., Ward M., Done C., 2012c, MNRAS, 425, 907, A combined optical and X-ray study of unobscured type 1 active galactic nuclei – III. Broad-band SED properties
- Jin C., Done C., Ward M., Gerlinski M., Mullaney J., 2009, MNRAS, 398, L16, The Seyfert AGN RX J0136.9-3510 and the spectral state of super Eddington accretion flows
All Publications:
46 refereed papers, ~1210 citations, H-Index: 20 (by Nov. 2020).
Please find all my publications on ADS.
Accepted Telescope Proposals as PI:
- PI: Swift ToO, 2020, 20 ksec, ID: 36528 (triggered)
- PI: XMM-Newton GO, AO-19, 123 ksec,ID: 08637901 (accepted)
- PI: Chandra ToO,Cycle-21, 40 ksec Chandra + 40 ksec XMM-Newton,ID: 21910146 (accepted, waiting for trigger)
- PI: XMM-Newton GO, AO-18, 133 ksec XMM-Newton + 200 ksec NuSTAR, ID: 0841801 (observed)
- PI: XMM-Newton GO, AO-18, 132 ksec, ID: 8418201 (observed)
- PI: XMM-Newton GO, AO-17, 396 ksec XMM-Newton + 260 ksec NuSTAR, Large Program, ID: 08240801 (observed)
- PI: XMM-Newton GO, AO-17, 72 ksec XMM-Newton + 100 ksec NuSTAR, ID: 08240301 (observed)
- PI: XMM-Newton ToO, AO-16, 43 ksec, ID: 08032301 (accepted)
- PI: XMM-Newton GO, AO-15, 124 ksec, ID: 07849301 (observed)
- PI: XMM-Newton GO, AO-15, 132 ksec, ID: 07849701 (accepted)
- PI: XMM-Newton GO, AO-14, 124 ksec, ID: 07645301 (accepted)
- PI: XMM-Newton GO, AO-12, 123 ksec, ID: 07248401 (observed)
- PI: XMM-Newton GO, AO-12, 63 ksec, ID: 07251301 (accepted)
- PI: XMM-Newton GO, AO-11, 102 ksec, ID: 06910601 (observed)
- PI: XMM-Newton GO, AO-10, 122 ksec, ID: 06753201 (accepted)
(I also led a series of short Swift ToO observations, which are not listed above)
Contact:
Address: Room 613, Building B, NAOC, 20A, Datun Road, Beijing, 100101, China
Email: ccjin[at]bao.ac.cn
Phone Number: +86 (10) 6480 7738