Sun-Kun King
Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
Academia Sinica,
11F of Astronomy-Mathematics Building,
National Taiwan University
No.1, Roosevelt Rd, Sec. 4
Taipei 10617, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Tel: (O) 886-2-23665385
Fax: 886-2-23677849



Who am I?
Here is a brief introduction in both Chinese version and English version.
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Educational Background

Employment Experience

Other Reltaed Experience

Research Interests

Recent Publications

Preprint, Journal Paper or Papers in Conference and Workshop Proceedings

  1. A Close Binary Star Resolved from Occultation by 87 Sylvia
    (by Lin, Chi-Long; Zhang, Zhi-Wei; Chen, W. P.; King, Sun-Kun; Lin, Hung-Chin; Bianco, F. B.; Lehner, M. J.; Coehlo, N. K.; Wang, J. -H.; Mondal, S.; Alcock, C.; Axelrod, T.; Byun, Y. -I.; Cook, K. H.; Dave, R.; de Pater, I.; Porrata, R.; Kim, D. -W.; Lee, T.; Lissauer, J. J.; Marshall, S. L.; Rice, J. A.; Schwamb, M. E.; Wang, S. -Y.; Wen, C. -Y.)
    Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 121, 359 (2009)
    (DOI: 10.1086/598968)
  2. Detection of Flare Stars in TAOS 2-year Data
    (by Kim, D.-W.; Protopapas, P.; Alcock, C.; Byun, Y.-I.; Zhang, Z.-W.; Wang, J.-H.; King, S.-K.; Wen, C. Y.; Lehner, M. J.; Bianco, F. B.; Coehlo, N. K.; Mondal, S.; Axelrod, T.; Chen, W. P.; Cook, K. H.; Dave, R.; Pater, I. De; Porrata, R.; Lee, T.; Lin, H.-C.; Lissauer, J. J.; Marshall, S. L.; Rice, J. A.; Schwamb, M. E.; Wang, S. Y.)
    The Astronomer's Telegram, #2035 (2009)
  3. The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey: The Multi-Telescope Robotic Observatory
    (by Lehner, M. J.; Wen, C.-Y.; Wang, J.-H.; Marshall, S. L.; Schwamb, M. E.; Zhang, Z.-W.; Bianco, F. B.; Giammarco, J.; Porrata, R.; Alcock, C.; Axelrod, T.; Byun, Y.-I.; Chen, W. P.; Cook, K. H.; Dave, R.; King, S.-K.; Lee, T.; Lin, H.-C.; Wang, S.-Y.; Rice, J. A.; de Pater, I.)
    Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 121, issue 876, 138 (2009)
    (DOI: 10.1086/597516)
  4. First Results from the Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS)
    (by Zhang, Z.-W.; Bianco, F. B.; Lehner, M. J.; Coehlo, N. K.; Wang, J.-H.; Mondal, S.; Alcock, C.; Axelrod, T.; Byun, Y.-I.; Chen, W. P.; Cook, K. H.; Dave, R.; de Pater, I.; Porrata, R.; Kim, D.-W.; King, S.-K.; Lee, T.; Lin, H.-C.; Lissauer, J. J.; Marshall, S. L.; Protopapas, P.; Rice, J. A.; Schwamb, M. E.; Wang, S.-Y.; Wen, C.-Y.)
    The Astrophysical Journal, 685, Issue 2, L157 (2008)
    (DOI: 10.1086/592741)
  5. Millisecond dip events in the 2007 RXTE/PCA data of Sco X-1 and the trans-Neptunian object size distribution
    (by Liu, Chih-Yuan; Chang, Hsiang-Kuang; Liang, Jau-Shian; King, Sun-Kun)
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 388, L44 (2008)
    (arXiv:0805.1579)
    (DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2008.00494.x)
  6. Early Optical Brightening in GRB 071010B
    (by Wang, J. H.; Schwamb, M. E.; Huang, K. Y.; Wen, C. Y.; Zhang, Z. W.; Wang, S. Y.; Chen, W. P.; Bianco, F. B.; Dave, R.; Lehner, M. J.; Marshall, S. L.; Porrata, R.; Alcock, C.; Byun, Y. I.; Cook, K. H.; King, S. K.; Lee, T.; Urata, Y.)
    The Astrophysical Journal, 679, L5 (2008)
    (DOI: 10.1086/588814)
  7. Detectability of Occultation of Stars by Objects in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud
    (by Nihei, T. C.; Lehner, M. J.; Bianco, F. B.; King, S.-K.; Giammarco, J. M.; Alcock, C.)
    Astronomical Journal, 134, 1596 (2007)
    (astro-ph/0703460)
    (DOI: 10.1086/521396)
  8. Millisecond dips in the RXTE/PCA light curve of Sco X-1 and trans-Neptunian object occultation
    (by Chang, H.-K., Liang, J.-S., Liu, C.-Y., and King, S.-K.)
    Monthly Notice of Royal Astronomical Society, 378, 1287 (2007)
    (DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11729.x)
  9. TNO Occultation Surveys in Taiwan
    (by Sun-Kun King, Charles Alcock, Tim Axelrod, Federica B. Bianco, Yong-Ik Byun, Hsiang-Kuang Chang, Wen-Ping Chen, Jeng-Lun Chiu, Kem H. Cook, Yung-Hsin Chang, Rahul Dave, Joseph Giammarco, Typhoon Lee, Matthew Lehner, Jau-Shian Liang, Lupin Chun-Che Lin, Jack J. Lissauer, Chih-Yuan Liu, Stuart Marshall, Soumen Mondal, Taryn C. Nihei, Imke de Pater, John Rice, Megan E. Schwamb, Andrew Wang, Shiang-Yu Wang, Chih-Yi Wen, Ping-Shien Wu, Yu-Chih Wu, Lun-Wen Yeh, and Zhi-Wei Zhang)
    in the proceedings of the 18th Rencontres de Blois (28th May - 2nd June 2006) on Planetary Science: challenges and discoveries, in press
  10. Search for Small Trans-Neptunian Objects by the TAOS Project
    (by Chen, W. P.; Alcock, C.; Axelrod, T.; Bianco, F. B.; Byun, Y. I.; Chang, Y. H.; Cook, K. H.; Dave, R.; Giammarco, J.; Kim, D. W.; King, S. K.; Lee, T.; Lehner, M.; Lin, C. C.; Lin, H. C.; Lissauer, J. J.; Marshall, S.; Meinshausen, N.; Mondal, S.; de Pater, I.; Porrata, R.; Rice, J.; Schwamb, M. E.; Wang, A.; Wang, S. Y.; Wen, C. Y.; Zhang, Z. W.)
    in Near Earth Objects, Our Celestial Neighbors: Opportunity and Risk (IAU Symposium 236), in press (astro-ph/0611527)
  11. TAOS - The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey
    (by Lehner, M. J.; Alcock, C.; Axelrod, T.; Bianco, F.; Byun, Y.-I.; Chen, W.-P.; Cook, K. H.; Dave, R.; de Pater, I.; Giammarco, J.; King, S.-K.; Lee, T.; Lissauer, J.; Marshall, S. L.; Mondal, S.; Nihei, T.; Rice, J.; Schwamb, M.; Wang, A.; Wang, S.-Y.; Wen, C.-Y.; Zhang, Z.-W.)
    Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol.327, Issue 8, p.814 (2006)
    (DOI: 10.1002/asna.200610688)
  12. Occultation of X-rays from Scorpius X-1 by small trans-neptunian objects
    (by Chang, H.-K.; King, S.-K.; Liang, J.-S.; Wu, P.-S.; Lin, C.-C.; and, Chiu, J.-L.)
    Nature, 442, 660 (2006)
    (DOI:10.1038/nature04941)
  13. Status of the TAOS Project and a Simulator for TNO Occultation
    (by King, S.-K.; Alcock, C.; Axelrod, T.; Bianco, F.; Byun, Y.-I.; Chen, W. P.; Cook, K. H.; Chang, Y.-H.; Dave, R.; Giammarco, J.; Lee, T.; Lehner, M.; Lissauer, J.; Marshall, S.; Mondal, S.; de Pater, I.; Porrata, R.; Rice, J.; Schwamb, M.; Wang, A.; Wang, S.-Y.; Wen, C.-Y.; and, Zhang, Z.-W.) in Advances in Geosciences: Vol.III Planetary Science, edit. Wing-Huen Ip (Editor-in-Chief) & Anil.Bhardwaj (Volume Editor-in-Chief) et al. (Singapore, World Scientific Publishing Company, 2006), p.345-358.
    (based on my presentation in the AOGS 2005 annual meeting.)
    (A preprint is available in PDF format).
  14. TAOS: The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey
    (by Alcock, C.; Dave, R.; Giammarco, J.; Goldader, J.; Lehner, M.; King, S.-K.; Lee, T.; Wang, A.; Wang, S.-Y.; Wen, C.-Y.; Chen, W. P.; Cook, K.; Marshall, S.; Porrata, R.; Byun, Y.-I.; de Pater, I.; Rice, J.; Lissauer, J.)
    Earth, Moon, and Planets, v. 92, Issue 1, p. 459-464 (2003)
    (DOI: 10.1023/B:MOON.0000031960.82021.26)
  15. Fast CCD Photometry in the Taiwan-America Occultation Survey
    (by Chen, W. P.; Zhang, Z. W.; King, S. K.; Alcock, C.; Byun, Y. I.; Cook, K. H.; Dave, R.; Giammarco, J.; Lee T.; Lehner, M.; Liang, C.; Lissauer, J.; Marshall, S.; de Pater, I.; Porrata, R.; Rice, J.; Wang, A.; Wang, S. Y.; and Wen, C. Y.) (in postscript, 2MB)
    Baltic Astronomy, 12, 568 (2003) ( Postscript file and PDF version are available)
  16. The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey: The Nature of Occultations of Bright Stars by Small Kuiper-Belt Objects
    (by Alcock, C.; Dave, R.; Giammarco, J.; Lehner, M.; Chen, W.-P.; Lee, T.; King, S.-K.; Wang, A.; Wang, S.-Y.; Wen, C.-Y.; Cook, K.; Marshall, S.; Porrata, R.; Byun, Y.-I.; de Pater, I.; Liang, C.; Rice, J.; Lissauer, J.) American Astronomical Society Meeting 201, #45.08 (Dec. 2002) abstract (in postscript), poster (in PDF, 7.5MB)
  17. The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey: Current Status of the Survey
    (by King, S.-K.; Lee, T.; Wang, A.; Wang, S.-Y.; Wen, C.-Y.; Chen, W.-P.; Cook, K.; Marshall, S.; Porrata, R.; Byun, Y.-I.; Alcock, C.; Dave, R.; Giammarco, J.; Lehner, M.; de Pater, I.; Liang, C.; Rice, J.; Lissauer, J.) American Astronomical Society Meeting 201, #45.07 (Dec. 2002) abstract (in postscript), poster (in PDF, 29MB)
  18. The Taiwan-America Occultation Survey for Kuiper Belt Objects
    (by King, S.-K.) 2001, in ASP Conf. Ser. 246, Small Telescope Astronomy on Global Scales, IAU Colloquium 183, eds. Bohdan Paczynski, Wen-Ping Chen, and Wing Ip (San Francisco: ASP), 253 (Postscript file and PDF version are available.)
Articles Published in a Non-technical Journal or a Journal for the General Public
(Please visit my blog if there is any comment or question.)
  1. 行星橢圓軌道的古今對話 (in Chinese)
    科學月刊480期 （2009年12月）
  2. 時空隨想─兼評《時光旅人》 (in Chinese)
    科學月刊479期 （2009年11月）
  3. 中美掩星觀測計畫(TAOS)與古柏帶相關研究近況 (in Chinese)
    (by Sun-Kun King, 物理雙月刊 26卷5期, published by The Physical Society of Republic of China, October 2004)
Publication List (a chronological list in PDF format) (last updated: June 16, 2009)

Recent Study

To know more about my recent study on TNO (trans-Neptunian Objects) occultation survey, you may take a look at the titles of (my collaborators and) my recent presentations in these local meetings below. My presentations in the local Astronomical Society's annual meeting (CAST meeting, or ASROC meeting since 2009) are quite similar. They are not listed here. You're welcome to contact with me for details.

Titles of Recent Reports in PSROC and ASROC Annual Meetings