1. Ming Sun, Zhen-ru Wang, & Yang Chen, ApJ, 1999, 511, 274
2. Yang Chen, Ming Sun, Zhen-ru Wang & Qi Feng Yin, ApJ, 1999, 520, 737
3. Ming Sun & Zhen-ru Wang,  Adv. Space Res., 2000, 25, NO.3/4, 549
4. Yang Chen, Ming Sun, Zhen-ru Wang, Adv. Space Res., 2000, 25, NO.3/4, ???
5. M. Sun, S. S. Murray, M. Markevitch & A. Vikhlinin, ApJ, 2002, 565, 867
6. M. Sun, & S. S. Murray, ApJ, 2002, 576, 708
7. M. Sun, & S. S. Murray, ApJ, 2002, 577, 139
8. M. Sun, C. Jones, S. Murray, S. Allen, A. Fabian, A. Edge, ApJ, 2003, 587, 619
9. F. D. Seward, P. O. Slane, R. Smith, M. Sun, ApJ, 2003, 584, 414
10. M. Sun, W. Forman, A. Vikhlinin et al. ApJ, 2003, 598, 250
11. M. Sun, F. D. Seward, R. Smith, \& P. O. Slane, ApJ, 2004, 605, 742
12. M. Sun, W. Forman et al. ApJ, 2004, 612, 805
13. M. Sun, A. Vikhlinin et al. ApJ, 2005, 619, 169
14. M. Sun \& A. Vikhlinin ApJ, 2005, 621, 718
15. M. Sun, D. Jerius, C. Jones ApJ, 2005, 633, 165
16. M. Sun et al. ApJL, 2006, 637, 81
17. M. Sun et al. ApJ, 2007, 657, 197
18. Donahue, M., Sun, M. et al. 2007, AJ, 134, 14
19. M. Sun et al. ApJ, 2007, 671, 190
20. Chen, Y., Seward, F. D., Sun, M., Li, J. T. ApJ, 2008, 676, 1040
21. Cavagnolo, K. W., Donahue, M., Voit, G. M., Sun, M. ApJ, 2008, 682, 821
22. Cavagnolo, K. W., Donahue, M., Voit, G. M., Sun, M. ApJ, 2008, 683, 107
23. M. Sun et al. ApJ, 2009, 693, 1142
24. Cavagnolo, K. W., Donahue, M., Voit, G. M., Sun, M. ApJ, 2009, in press
25. M. Sun ApJ, 2009, 704, 1586
26. M. Sun et al. ApJ, 2009, accepted
 
(herd index: 12, first-author papers only, minus self citations)
(~ 350 citations to the first-author papers to August 2009)


My "Resume" Research interests:
Galaxy formation and evolution; galaxy clusters and groups; X-ray astronomy; radio galaxies; cosmology; compact objects in SNR; SN


Em, I can teach (good students):
2008: Substitute instructor, Astronomy 545: High Energy Astrophysics, University of Virginia,
Prof. C. Sarazin (for Astronomy graduate students), twice
2003: Teaching Assistant, Astronomy 219: High Energy Astrophysics, Harvard University,
Prof. J. E. Grindlay & R. Narayan (for Astronomy graduate students)
2002-2003: Teaching Assistant, Astronomy 150: Radiative Processes in Astrophysics, Harvard University,
Prof. G. B. Rybicki (for Astronomy graduate students)
2001-2002: Teaching Assistant, Science A-35: Matter in the Universe, Harvard University,
Prof. R. Kirshner (for undergraduates with non-science major)


Somehow, TACs fall into my tricks so I have some grants (excluding GTO):
(Total grant money in the last four years: 443 K)
1) PI of the Chandra cycle 11 proposal 11800517 ``Strong shocks, cavities and AGN heating in galaxy groups'', 109 ks exposure on one target, 2009, 61 K
2) PI of the Chandra cycle 11 proposal 11700638 ``Strong radio AGN in the center of galaxy groups'', 156 ks exposure on six targets, 2009, 84 K
3) PI of the XMM cycle 8 large proposal 060193 ``Building a representative sample of local galaxy groups'', 330 ks, 2009, 98 K (one of the only two US large projects selected)
4) PI of the XMM cycle 8 proposal 060360 ``The connection of X-ray tails and HI tails of late-type cluster galaxies'', 140 ks, 2009, C targets
5) PI of the HST cycle 17 proposal 11683 ``Intracluster star formation and galaxy transformation: ESO 137-001 in A3627'', 2 orbits, 2009, 15 K
6) PI of the Chandra cycle 9 proposal 09610499 ``ESO 137-001 in A3627: ISM Stripping and Intracluster X-ray Binaries'', 150 ks exposure, 2008, 67 K
7) PI of the Chandra cycle 8 proposal 08610309 ``X-ray thermal coronae of early-type galaxies in hot clusters'', 110 ks exposure on three galaxies, 2006-2007, 64 K
8) PI of the Chandra cycle 7 archive proposal 07610308 ``X-ray coronae of early-type galaxies in rich clusters'', 54 K, 2005
9) Observer and author of the XMM cycle 6 proposal 050094 ``XMM-Newton Observations of Low Luminosity Clusters of Galaxies at z=0.3-0.5'', 68 ks on two targets (B)
9) Observer and author of the Chandra cycle 5 proposal 05800346 ``CHANDRA Observation of Galaxy Cluster A2069 - Implication for Hierarchical Mergers'', 60 ks (cannot be a PI as a Harvard student, same for the following proposals I wrote), Admin. PI: Steve Murray
10) Observer and author of the Chandra cycle 4 proposal 04800749 ``CHANDRA OBSERVATIONS OF TWO DYNAMICALLY YOUNG GALAXY CLUSTERS A2069 AND A2384'', 32 ks on A2384, Admin. PI: Maxim Markevitch
11) Observer and author of the Chandra cycle 4 proposal 04800391 ``OBSERVING THE X-RAY LUMINOUS GALAXY CORONAE IN A1367'', 50 ks, Admin. PI: Alexey Vikhlinin
12) Observer and author of the Chandra cycle 4 proposal 04500364 ``OBSERVING THE THERMAL COMPOSITE SNR KES 27'', 40 ks, Admin. PI: Fred Seward
13) Observer and author of the XMM cycle 2 proposal 014990 on four merging clust ers, 79 ks on four targets (1 B and 3 C, Admin. PI: Bill Forman)
14) Co-Is on > 15 Chandra, XMM, Astro-E(2), HST, Spitzer, NOAO proposals --- (Damn! who cares!)


When I am bored about X-ray data:
1) PI of the Gemini proposal GS-2008A-Q-50 with the 8-m Gemini south telescope
2) PI of the NOAO proposal 2007A-0502 with the CTIO 1.5-m telescope
3) PI of the 6.5-m Magellan proposal through CfA (2003) with LDSS2
4) PI of a CfA proposal with the Mt. Hopkins 1.5-m telescope (2003), observed for four nights
5) SOAR 4.1-m remote observing for 14 nights from 2006 to 2009 (through MSU)
6) APO 3.5-m remote observing for 4 nights in 2009 (through UVa)


Somtime I am forced to kill proposals per the request of higher power...
1) Chandra panel in cycle 9 (deferred), 10 and 11
2) Suzaku panels
3) Canadian Gemini TAC
4) ApJ and MNRAS referees


Somtime I confuse people by giving talks:
1) Solicited talks in the 36th and 37th COSPAR
2) Oral talks in AAS (three times), HEAD and some seminars (CfA, MSU, University of Michigan - twice, UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, UIUC, NRAO, MPE and University of Innsbruck) and some international conferences (e.g., X-ray Universe 2009, Suzaku conference) from 2001-2009
3) Posters on ... (Damn! who cares!)


Sometime evil Ming even confuses public media:
1) UGC 6697 in A1367 (also featured on space.com, Jan. 31, 2005)
2) ESO 137-001 in A3627 (Orphan stars) (also featured on ScienceNOW, MSNBC, Science Daily, Sky and Telescope, space.com, Science@NASA, NOAO frontpage, HEASARC Picture of the Week and ESPN!)