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Publications (55)

cs.CV2026

No Training, Better Flights: Test-Time Scaled VLMs for UAV Navigation

Feinan Cheng, Dongliang Xu, Wenli Nong +4

Test-time scaling offers a promising method to improve the inference performance of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) without additional training. Existing approaches to vision-languag…

hep-ph2022

Sterile Neutrino Portal Dark Matter in THDM

Ang Liu, Feng-Lan Shao, Zhi-Long Han +2

In this paper, we propose the sterile neutrino portal dark matter in THDM. This model can naturally generate tiny neutrino mass with the neutrinophilic scalar doublet a…

astro-ph.CO2023

The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS): A Machine Learning Approach to Infer Galaxy Cluster Masses from eROSITA X-ray Images

Sven Krippendorf, Nicolas Baron Perez, Esra Bulbul +15

We develop a neural network based pipeline to estimate masses of galaxy clusters with a known redshift directly from photon information in X-rays. Our neural networks are trained u…

hep-ph2024

Conversion-Driven Dark Matter in

Jing-Jing Zhang, Zhi-Long Han, Ang Liu +1

The new gauge boson in is widely considered as the mediator of dark matter. In this paper, we propose the conversion-driven dark matter in . The dark…

eess.SP2020

Depression Detection using Resting State Three-channel EEG Signal

Qiuxia Shi, Ang Liu, Rongyan Chen +3

In universal environment, a patient-friendly inexpensive method is needed to realize the early diagnosis of depression, which is believed to be an effective way to reduce the morta…

cs.CL2024

Similar Data Points Identification with LLM: A Human-in-the-loop Strategy Using Summarization and Hidden State Insights

Xianlong Zeng, Yijing Gao, Fanghao Song +1

This study introduces a simple yet effective method for identifying similar data points across non-free text domains, such as tabular and image data, using Large Language Models (L…

astro-ph.GA2020

The Chemical Evolution of Galaxy Clusters: Dissecting the Iron Mass Budget of the Intracluster Medium

Ang Liu, Paolo Tozzi, Stefano Ettori +4

We study the chemical evolution of galaxy clusters by measuring the iron mass in the ICM after dissecting the abundance profiles into different components. We use Chandra archival…

hep-ph2020

Leptogenesis and Dark Matter from Low Scale Seesaw

Ang Liu, Zhi-Long Han, Yi Jin +1

In this paper, we perform a detail analysis on leptogenesis and dark matter form low scale seesaw. In the framework of 2HDM, we further introduce one scalar singlet and on…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Silicon Nanostructures for Biosensing: From Field-Effect Transistors to Photonic Resonators, and the Long Road to the Clinic

Ang Liu, Jun Cao, Zhihao Sun +1

Silicon has a unique combination of properties that makes it one of the best material choices for biosensor platforms: it is inexpensive, its native oxide is atomically smooth, its…

astro-ph.HE2025

Science objectives of the Einstein Probe mission

Weimin Yuan, Lixin Dai, Hua Feng +93

The Einstein Probe (EP) is an interdisciplinary mission of time-domain and X-ray astronomy. Equipped with a wide-field lobster-eye X-ray focusing imager, EP will discover cosmic X-…

astro-ph.CO2022

The eROSITA view of the Abell 3391/95 field: The Northern Clump. The largest infalling structure in the longest known gas filament observed with eROSITA, XMM-Newton, and Chandra

Angie Veronica, Yuanyuan Su, Veronica Biffi +18

SRG/eROSITA PV observations revealed the A3391/95 cluster system and the Northern Clump (MCXC J0621.7-5242 galaxy cluster) are aligning along a cosmic filament in soft X-rays, simi…

cs.CV2026

City landscape in sight: A crowdsourced framework for unlocking urban-scale window view perceptions from real estate imagery

Chucai Peng, Sijie Yang, Ang Liu +3

City landscapes viewed through home windows influence quality of life, yet perceptions of actual window views at the urban scale remain understudied. This study presents an approac…

cs.DC2025

Enhancing Large-Scale AI Training Efficiency: The C4 Solution for Real-Time Anomaly Detection and Communication Optimization

Jianbo Dong, Bin Luo, Jun Zhang +22

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has necessitated the adoption of distributed training techniques, involving the deployment of thousands of GPUs to train a single mode…

astro-ph.CO2024

The SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey: Weak-Lensing of eRASS1 Galaxy Clusters in KiDS-1000 and Consistency Checks with DES Y3 & HSC-Y3

Florian Kleinebreil, Sebastian Grandis, Tim Schrabback +21

We aim to participate in the calibration of the X-ray photon count rate to halo mass scaling relation of galaxy clusters selected in the first eROSITA All-Sky Survey on the Western…

astro-ph.GA2018

Inside a Beehive: the Multiple Merging Processes in the Galaxy Cluster Abell 2142

Ang Liu, Heng Yu, Antonaldo Diaferio +5

To investigate the dynamics of the galaxy cluster A2142, we compile an extended catalog of 2239 spectroscopic redshifts of sources, including newly measured 237 redshifts, within 3…

astro-ph.GA2025

The warm-hot intergalactic medium in inter-cluster filaments -- A forecast for HUBS observations based on eRASS1 superclusters

Yuanyuan Zhao, Haiguang Xu, Ang Liu +8

Cosmological simulations indicate that nearly half of the baryons in the nearby Universe are in the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) phase, and about a half them reside in cosm…

astro-ph.GA2024

The hot circumgalactic medium in the eROSITA All-Sky Survey I. X-ray surface brightness profiles

Yi Zhang, Johan Comparat, Gabriele Ponti +17

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) provides the material needed for galaxy formation and influences galaxy evolution. The hot () CGM is poorly detected around galaxies with s…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Eighteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Targeting and First Spectra from SDSS-V

Andrés Almeida, Scott F. Anderson, Maria Argudo-Fernández +151

The eighteenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS) is the first one for SDSS-V, the fifth generation of the survey. SDSS-V comprises three primary scientific progr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Radio Frequency Field-Induced Enhancement of Detection Sensitivity in Silicon Nanowire Sensors

Ang Liu, Jingsong Shang, Jiangang J. Du +2

Sensitive biomarker detection in physiological fluids is often limited by Debye screening, which suppresses electrostatic signals at sensor surfaces. Here we report a sensing appro…

astro-ph.CO2025

The SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey : Subaru/HSC-SSP weak-lensing mass measurements for the eRASS1 Galaxy Clusters

Nobuhiro Okabe, Thomas H. Reiprich, Sebastian Grandis +20

We performed individual weak-lensing (WL) mass measurements for 78 eROSITA's first All-Sky Survey (eRASS1) clusters in the footprint of Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (…

astro-ph.CO2021

The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS): X-ray Observable-to-Mass-and-Redshift Relations of Galaxy Clusters and Groups with Weak-Lensing Mass Calibration from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program Survey

I-Non Chiu, Vittorio Ghirardini, Ang Liu +18

We present the first weak-lensing mass calibration and X-ray scaling relations of galaxy clusters and groups selected in the Final Equatorial Depth Survey (eFEDS) observe…

astro-ph.GA2024

The hot circumgalactic medium in the eROSITA All-Sky Survey III. Star-forming and quiescent galaxies

Yi Zhang, Johan Comparat, Gabriele Ponti +17

The circumgalactic medium (CGM), as the gas repository for star formation, might contain the answer to the mysterious galaxy quenching and bimodal galaxy population origin. We meas…

hep-ph2022

Shinning Light on Sterile Neutrino Portal Dark Matter from Cosmology and Collider

Ang Liu, Feng-Lan Shao, Zhi-Long Han +2

Provided the dark sector consisted of a dark scalar and a dark fermion under an exact symmetry, the sterile neutrino can act as the messenger between the dark s…

astro-ph.CO2025

The SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey: Large-scale view of the Centaurus cluster

Angie Veronica, Thomas H. Reiprich, Florian Pacaud +9

Methods. We utilized the combined five SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey data (eRASS:5) to perform X-ray imaging and spectral analyses of the Centaurus cluster in various directions to la…

astro-ph.GA2024

The hot circumgalactic medium in the eROSITA All-Sky Survey II. Scaling relations between X-ray luminosity and galaxies' mass

Yi Zhang, Johan Comparat, Gabriele Ponti +16

Understanding how the properties of galaxies relate to the properties of the hot circum-galactic medium (CGM) around them can constrain galaxy evolution models. We measured the X-r…

astro-ph.CO2022

The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS): X-ray Properties and Scaling Relations of Galaxy Clusters and Groups

Y. Emre Bahar, Esra Bulbul, Nicolas Clerc +16

We investigate the scaling relations between X-ray observables of the clusters detected in the eFEDS field using Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma/eROSITA observations taking into account th…

astro-ph.GA2020

Local Group Analogs in CDM cosmological simulations

Meng Zhai, Qi Guo, Gang Zhao +2

We use semi-analytic galaxy catalogs based on two high-resolution cosmological -body simulations, Millennium-WMAP7 and Millennium-II, to investigate the formation of the Local G…

astro-ph.GA2022

The Spiderweb proto-cluster is being magnetized by its central radio jet

Craig S. Anderson, Christopher L. Carilli, Paolo Tozzi +10

We present deep broadband radio polarization observations of the Spiderweb radio galaxy (J1140-2629) in a galaxy proto-cluster at . These yield the most detailed polarimetr…

astro-ph.GA2022

H1821+643: The most X-ray and infrared luminous AGN in the Swift/BAT survey in the process of rapid stellar and supermassive black hole mass assembly

Hikaru Fukuchi, Kohei Ichikawa, Masayuki Akiyama +6

H1821+643 is the most X-ray luminous non-beamed AGN of erg s in the Swift/BAT ultra-hard X-ray survey and it is also a hyper-lumin…

astro-ph.HE2022

X-ray Emission and Radio Emission from the Jets and Lobes of the Spiderweb Radio Galaxy

Christopher L. Carilli, Craig S. Anderson, Paolo Tozzi +12

Deep Chandra and VLA imaging reveals a clear correlation between X-ray and radio emission on scales ~kpc in the Spiderweb radio galaxy at z=2.16. The X-ray emission assoc…

astro-ph.GA2021

Systematic search for lensed X-ray sources in the CLASH fields

Ang Liu, Paolo Tozzi, Piero Rosati +8

We search for unresolved X-ray emission from lensed sources in the FOV of 11 CLASH clusters with Chandra data. We consider the solid angle in the lens plane corresponding to a magn…

astro-ph.GA2019

On the origin of central abundance drops in the intracluster medium of galaxy groups and clusters

Ang Liu, Meng Zhai, Paolo Tozzi

A central drop of ICM Fe abundance has been observed in several cool-core clusters. It has been proposed that this abundance drop may be due, at least partially, to the depletion o…

astro-ph.CO2026

The life of central radio galaxies in clusters: AGN-ICM studies of eRASS1 clusters in the ASKAP fields

Angie Veronica, Thomas H. Reiprich, Florian Pacaud +35

The mechanical feedback from the central AGNs can be crucial for balancing the radiative cooling of the intracluster medium at the cluster centre. We aim to understand the relation…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Three Hundred: Gas Properties Outside of Galaxy Cluster with the WHIM Contribution and Detection

Renjie Li, Weiguang Cui, Ang Liu +4

We investigate the physical properties and detectability of warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) gas with temperatures in the range K around galaxy clusters using simu…

hep-ph2024

Common Origin of Dark Matter and Leptogenesis in

Ang Liu, Feng-Lan Shao, Zhi-Long Han +2

In this paper, we investigate the common parameter space of dark matter and leptogenesis in the symmetry. This model involves a complex scalar , sterile neutrinos…

hep-ph2026

Coscattering Dark Matter in the Inverse Scotogenic Models

Ang Liu, Zhi-Long Han, Fei Huang +2

The Scotogenic mechanism is an appealing pathway to naturally explain the common origin of dark matter and tiny neutrino mass. However, the conventional scotogenic dark matter usua…

astro-ph.CO2025

The SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey. The Weak-Lensing Mass Calibration and the Stellar Mass-to-Halo Mass Relation from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program

I-Non Chiu, Vittorio Ghirardini, Sebastian Grandis +23

We present the weak-lensing mass calibration and constrain the BCG (brightest cluster galaxy) stellar-mass-to-halo-mass-and-redshift () relation for a s…

cs.IR2023

Opportunities and challenges of ChatGPT for design knowledge management

Xin Hu, Yu Tian, Keisuke Nagato +2

Recent advancements in Natural Language Processing have opened up new possibilities for the development of large language models like ChatGPT, which can facilitate knowledge manage…

astro-ph.GA2022

The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS): Galaxy Clusters and Groups in Disguise

Esra Bulbul, Ang Liu, Thomas Pasini +21

The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS), executed during the performance verification phase of the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG)/eROSITA telescope, was completed in Nov.…

astro-ph.HE2017

Extended X-ray Monitoring of Gravitational Lenses with Chandra and Joint Constraints on X-ray Emission Regions

Eduardo Guerras, Xinyu Dai, Shaun Steele +5

We present an X-ray photometric analysis of six gravitationally lensed quasars, with observation campaigns spanning from 5 to 14 years, measuring the total (0.83 - 21.8 keV restfra…

hep-ph2026

Reviving Portal Dark Matter with Conversion Mechanism

Zhen-Wei Wang, Zhi-Long Han, Fei Huang +2

In many new physics models with extended gauge symmetry, the new gauge boson could mediate the interactions between the dark matter and standard model particles. For the conve…

astro-ph.GA2025

Cross-correlation between soft X-rays and galaxies A new benchmark for galaxy evolution models

Johan Comparat, Andrea Merloni, Gabriele Ponti +11

This article presents the construction and validation of complete stellar mass-selected, volume-limited galaxy samples using the Legacy Survey (data release 10) galaxy catalogs, co…

astro-ph.CO2022

Hydrostatic Mass Profiles of Galaxy Clusters in the eROSITA Survey

Dominik Scheck, Jeremy S. Sanders, Veronica Biffi +3

To assume hydrostatic equilibrium between the intracluster medium and the gravitational potential of galaxy clusters is an extensively used method to investigate their total masses…

hep-ph2026

Portal Dark Matter with Observable

Ang Liu, Zhi-Long Han, Fei Huang

In the conventional portal dark matter scenario, the prediction of detectable dark matter typically relies on the collider sensitivities of and direct de…

astro-ph.GA2025

Unveiling the Sources of X-ray Luminosity in DESI Galaxy Groups: Insights from the SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey

YunLiang Zheng, Xiaohu Yang, Teng Liu +10

We use the first eROSITA all-sky survey (eRASS1) to investigate the contributions of AGN and extended gas to the total X-ray luminosity () of galaxy groups with different halo…

astro-ph.GA2026

Large-scale and local environmental drivers of quenching: tracing H concentration in X-ray and optical galaxy groups

Stefania Barsanti, Di Wang, Matthew Colless +11

To explore the environmental mechanisms causing quenching in nearby star-forming galaxies, we study the variation with local and large-scale environments of a star formation concen…

astro-ph.CO2023

The eROSITA view of the Abell 3391/95 field: Cluster Outskirts and Filaments

Angie Veronica, Thomas H. Reiprich, Florian Pacaud +17

Aims. We aim to characterize the gas properties in the cluster outskirts () and in the detected inter-cluster filaments () of the A3391/95 system and t…

astro-ph.CO2015

A method to search for bulk motions in the ICM with {\sl Chandra} CCD spectra: application to the Bullet cluster

Ang Liu, Heng Yu, Paolo Tozzi +1

We propose a strategy to search for bulk motions in the intracluster medium (ICM) of merging clusters based on {\sl Chandra} CCD data. Our goal is to derive robust measurements of…

astro-ph.CO2016

Searching for bulk motions in the ICM of massive, merging clusters with Chandra CCD data

Ang Liu, Heng Yu, Paolo Tozzi +1

We search for bulk motions in the intracluster medium (ICM) of massive clusters showing evidence of an ongoing or recent major merger with spatially resolved spectroscopy in {\sl C…

hep-ph2023

Sterile Neutrino Portal Dark Matter from Semi-Production

Ang Liu, Feng-Lan Shao, Zhi-Long Han +2

In this paper, we study the feeble sterile neutrino portal dark matter under the symmetry. The dark sector consists of one fermion singlet and one scalar singlet , w…

astro-ph.CO2024

The SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey: View of the Virgo Cluster

Hannah McCall, Thomas H. Reiprich, Angie Veronica +11

As the closest galaxy cluster, the Virgo Cluster is an exemplary environment for the study of the large-scale filamentary structure and physical effects that are present in cluster…

astro-ph.CO2024

Gas thermodynamics meets galaxy kinematics: Joint mass measurements for eROSITA galaxy clusters

Pengfei Li, Ang Liu, Matthias Kluge +13

The mass of galaxy clusters is a critical quantity for probing cluster cosmology and testing theories of gravity, but its measurement could be biased given assumptions are inevitab…

astro-ph.GA2019

Testing the rotation versus merger scenario in the galaxy cluster Abell 2107

Ang Liu, Paolo Tozzi

We search for global rotation of the intracluster medium (ICM) in the galaxy cluster Abell 2107, where previous studies have detected rotational motion in the member galaxies with…

astro-ph.CO2018

Spatial Distribution of Metals in the ICM: Evolution of the Iron Excess in Relaxed Galaxy Clusters

Ang Liu, Paolo Tozzi, Heng Yu +2

We investigate the spatial distribution of iron in the intra-cluster medium in a selected sample of 41 relaxed clusters in the redshift range using {\sl Chandra}…

astro-ph.IM2022

Establishing the X-ray Source Detection Strategy for eROSITA with Simulations

Teng Liu, Andrea Merloni, Johan Comparat +25

The eROSITA X-ray telescope on board the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) satellite has started to detect new X-ray sources over the full sky at an unprecedented rate. Understanding t…