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Publications (54)

astro-ph.GA2024

Determining Stellar Elemental Abundances from DESI Spectra with the Data-Driven Payne

Meng Zhang, Maosheng Xiang, Yuan-Sen Ting +8

Stellar abundances for a large number of stars are key information for the study of Galactic formation history. Large spectroscopic surveys such as DESI and LAMOST take median-to-l…

astro-ph.EP2024

The Kinematic and Chemical Properties of the Close-in Planet Host Star 8 UMi

Huiling Chen, Yang Huang, Wei Zhu +11

A recent study by Hon et al. reported that a close-in planet around the red clump star, 8 UMi, should have been engulfed during the expansion phase of its parent star's evolution.…

astro-ph.GA2019

Metal-poor Stars Observed with the Automated Planet Finder Telescope. II. Chemodynamical Analysis of Six Low-Metallicity Stars in the Halo System of the Milky Way

Mohammad K. Mardini, Vinicius M. Placco, Ali Taani +2

In this work, we study the chemical compositions and kinematic properties of six metal-poor stars with [Fe/H] in the Galactic halo. From high-resolution (R ~110,000)…

astro-ph.SR2015

Discovery of a strongly r-process enhanced extremely metal-poor star LAMOST J110901.22+075441.8

Haining Li, Wako Aoki, Satoshi Honda +3

We report the discovery of an extremely metal-poor (EMP) giant, LAMOST J110901.22+075441.8, which exhibits large excess of r-process elements with [Eu/Fe] ~ +1.16. The star is one…

astro-ph.SR2015

High-resolution spectroscopic studies of ultra metal-poor stars found in LAMOST survey

Haining Li, Wako Aoki, Gang Zhao +3

We report on the observations of two ultra metal-poor (UMP) stars with [Fe/H]~-4.0 including one new discovery. The two stars are studied in the on-going and quite efficient projec…

astro-ph.SR2021

Star Formation Timescales of the Halo Populations from Asteroseismology and Chemical Abundances

Tadafumi Matsuno, Wako Aoki, Luca Casagrande +9

We combine asteroseismology, optical high-resolution spectroscopy, and kinematic analysis for 26 halo red giant branch stars in the \textit{Kepler} field in the range of $-2.5<[\ma…

astro-ph.GA2019

Metal-poor stars observed with the automated planet finder telescope. I. Discovery of five carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars from LAMOST

Mohammad K. Mardini, Haining Li, Vinicius M. Placco +6

We report on the discovery of five carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars in the metallicity range of [Fe/H] . These stars were selected from the LAMOST DR3 low-res…

astro-ph.SR2022

Stellar Loci VI: An Updated Catalog of the Best and Brightest Metal-poor Stars

Shuai Xu, Haibo Yuan, Ruoyi Zhang +3

We employ Gaia, 2MASS, and ALLWISE photometry, as well as astrometric data from Gaia, to search for relatively bright very metal-poor ([Fe/H] ; VMP) giant star candidates u…

astro-ph.SR2017

Enormous Li-enhancement preceding red giant phases in low-mass stars in the Milky Way halo

Haining Li, Wako Aoki, Tadafumi Matsuno +4

Li abundances in the bulk of low-mass metal-poor stars are well reproduced by stellar evolution models adopting a constant initial abundance. However, a small number of stars have…

astro-ph.GA2026

HR-GO II: chemical abundances of low- retrograde dynamically-tagged-groups: Revealing Thamnos as a very metal-poor substructure

Renjing Xie, Zhen Yuan, Haining Li +12

Milky Way halo substructures identified in dynamical space are known to suffer from contamination from the Milky Way in-situ stars, which makes their accreted origins uncertain. We…

astro-ph.SR2022

Four-hundred Very Metal-Poor Stars Studied with LAMOST and Subaru. II. Elemental abundances

Haining Li, Wako Aoki, Tadafumi Matsuno +9

We present homogeneous abundance analysis of over 20 elements for 385 very metal-poor (VMP) stars based on the LAMOST survey and follow-up observations with the Subaru Telescope. I…

astro-ph.GA2025

Where are the Population III star relics in the simulated Milky Way analogues?

Hang Yang, Liang Gao, Qi Guo +3

Using 6 Milky Way analogues with two different numerical resolutions from the Auriga simulation, we investigate the total mass, spatial distribution and kinematics of the Populatio…

astro-ph.SR2026

A Systematic NLTE Study of Very Metal-Poor Stars with Metallicity Down to dex. II. Lithium Abundance and New Insight to the Lithium Plateau

Hong-Liang Yan, Jinxiao Qin, Shuai Liu +12

Metal-poor stars are crucially important for understanding the early Galaxy, first stars, and the Universe. In this series of papers, we present a homogeneous non-local thermodynam…

astro-ph.SR2026

Probabilistic Stellar Age Estimation for Gaia XP Stars with NGBoost

Xiaokun Hou, Wenbo Wu, Gang Zhao +2

Stellar age is a fundamental quantity for Galactic archaeology, but reliable age estimation for large stellar samples remains challenging. In this work, we develop an uncertainty a…

cs.LG2022

Trustworthy Long-Tailed Classification

Bolian Li, Zongbo Han, Haining Li +2

Classification on long-tailed distributed data is a challenging problem, which suffers from serious class-imbalance and accordingly unpromising performance especially on tail class…

astro-ph.SR2023

Unique chemical composition of the very metal-poor star LAMOST J1645+4357

Wako Aoki, Haining Li, Nozomu Tominaga +3

We report on the chemical composition of the very metal-poor ([Fe/H]=-2.9) star LAMOST J1645+4357 that is identified to be a red giant having peculiar abundance ratios by Li et al.…

astro-ph.GA2022

Overview of the LAMOST survey in the first decade

Hongliang Yan, Haining Li, Song Wang +24

The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), also known as the Guoshoujing Telescope, is a major national scientific facility for astronomical research l…

astro-ph.GA2024

A Modified Initial Mass Function of the First Stars with Explodability Theory under Different Enrichment Scenarios

Ruizheng Jiang, Gang Zhao, Haining Li +1

The most metal-poor stars record the earliest metal enrichment triggered by Population III stars. By comparing observed abundance patterns with theoretical yields of metal-free sta…

astro-ph.GA2019

Observational constraints on the survival of pristine stars

Mattis Magg, Ralf S. Klessen, Simon C. O. Glover +1

There is a longstanding discussion about whether low mass stars can form from pristine gas in the early Universe. A particular point of interest is whether we can find surviving pr…

astro-ph.SR2018

LAMOST J2217+2104: a new member of carbon-enhanced extremely metal-poor stars with excesses of Mg and Si

Wako Aoki, Tadafumi Matsuno, Satoshi Honda +4

We report on the elemental abundances of the carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) star J2217+2104 discovered by our metal-poor star survey with LAMOST and Subaru. This object is a red…

astro-ph.SR2016

Lithium in CEMP-no stars: A new constraint on the lithium depletion mechanism in the early universe

Tadafumi Matsuno, Wako Aoki, Takuma Suda +1

Most of relatively warm, unevolved metal-poor stars ( and ) exhibit almost constant lithium abundances, irrespective…

astro-ph.SR2011

Automatic Determination of Stellar Atmospheric Parameters and Construction of Stellar Spectral Templates of the Guoshoujing Telescope (LAMOST)

Yue Wu, A-Li Luo, Haining Li +10

A number of spectroscopic surveys have been carried out or are planned to study the origin of the Milky Way. Their exploitation requires reliable automated methods and softwares to…

astro-ph.IM2025

Introduction to the Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST)

CSST Collaboration, Yan Gong, Haitao Miao +119

The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) is an upcoming Stage-IV sky survey telescope, distinguished by its large field of view (FoV), high image quality, and multi-band o…

astro-ph.GA2024

Four-hundred Very Metal-poor Stars Studied with LAMOST and Subaru. III. Dynamically Tagged Groups and Chemodynamical Properties

Ruizhi Zhang, Tadafumi Matsuno, Haining Li +9

Very metal-poor (VMP) stars record the signatures of early accreted galaxies, making them essential tools for unraveling the early stages of Galaxy formation. Understanding the ori…

astro-ph.SR2022

Fuzzy Cluster Analysis: Application to Determining Metallicities for Very Metal-poor Stars

Haining Li

This work presents a first attempt to apply fuzzy cluster analysis (FCA) to analyzing stellar spectra. FCA is adopted to categorize line indices measured from LAMOST low-resolution…

astro-ph.GA2021

High-α-Metal-Rich stars in the LAMOST-MRS survey and its connection with the galactic bulge

Haopeng Zhang, Yuqin Chen, Gang Zhao +6

We report the detection of a large sample of high--metal-rich stars on the low giant branch with dex in the LAMOST-MRS survey. This special group corresponds to…

astro-ph.GA2025

Main-sequence Turnoff Stars as Probes of the Ancient Galactic Relic: Chemo-dynamical Analysis of a Pilot Sample

Renjing Xie, Haining Li, Ruizhi Zhang +5

The main-sequence turnoff (MSTO) stars well preserve the chemical properties where they were born, making them ideal tracers for studying the stellar population. We perform a detai…

cs.NI2026

Technical Report: A Hierarchical Dynamically Weighting Deep Reinforcement Learning Method for Multi-UAV Multi-Task Coordination

Xindi Wang, Haining Li, Tao Ding +1

This paper investigates the multi-UAV multi-task coordination problem in infrastructure-less emergency scenarios, where UAVs collaboratively are required to jointly perform aerial…

astro-ph.GA2026

Milky Way Dynamics Favor Dark Matter over Modified Gravity Models

Zheng-long Wang, Yue-Lin Sming Tsai, Lan Zhang +5

Modified gravity theories such as Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) and Scalar-Tensor-Vector Gravity (STVG) have been proposed as alternatives to dark matter, but decisive tests h…

astro-ph.HE2026

Proton-rich production of lanthanides: the process

Xilu Wang, Amol V. Patwardhan, Yangming Lin +7

The astrophysical origin of the lanthanides is an open question in nuclear astrophysics. Besides the widely studied , , and processes in moderately-to-strongly neutron-ri…

astro-ph.SR2025

A Catalog of 12,766 Carbon-enhanced Metal-poor Stars from LAMOST Data Release 8

Ziyu Fang, Xiangru Li, Haining Li

Metal-poor stars are a rare and ancient type of stars; Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor (CEMP) stars are a subset of these celestial bodies that show an enrichment of carbon relative to…

astro-ph.SR2024

Spectacular nucleosynthesis from early massive stars

Alexander P. Ji, Sanjana Curtis, Nicholas Storm +39

Stars formed with initial mass over 50 Msun are very rare today, but they are thought to be more common in the early universe. The fates of those early, metal-poor, massive stars a…

astro-ph.SR2025

The Stellar Abundances and Galactic Evolution Survey (SAGES). IV. Surface Gravity Estimation and Giant-Dwarf Separation with the DDO51 Filter

Qiqian Zhang, Zhou Fan, Gang Zhao +16

Reliable estimation of stellar surface gravity (log ) for a large sample is crucial for evaluating stellar evolution models and understanding galactic structure; However, it is…

astro-ph.SR2025

The Stellar Abundances and Galactic Evolution Survey (SAGES). II. Machine Learning-Based Stellar parameters for 21 million stars from the First Data Release

Hongrui Gu, Zhou Fan, Gang Zhao +14

Stellar parameters for large samples of stars play a crucial role in constraining the nature of stars and stellar populations in the Galaxy. An increasing number of medium-band pho…

nucl-ex2021

Progress in Nuclear Astrophysics of East and Southeast Asia

Azni Abdul Aziz, Nor Sofiah Ahmad, S. Ahn +25

Nuclear astrophysics is an interdisciplinary research field of nuclear physics and astrophysics, seeking for the answer to a question, how to understand the evolution of the Univer…

astro-ph2007

Morphological Dependence of MIR Properties of SDSS Galaxies in the Spitzer SWIRE Survey

Haining Li, Hong Wu, Chen Cao +1

We explore the correlation between morphological types and mid-infrared (MIR) properties of an optically flux-limited sample of 154 galaxies from the Forth Data Release (DR4) of Sl…

astro-ph.GA2019

Dynamical Relics of the Ancient Galactic Halo

Zhen Yuan, G. C. Myeong, Timothy C. Beers +11

We search for dynamical substructures in the LAMOST DR3 very metal-poor (VMP) star catalog. After cross-matching with Gaia DR2, there are 3300 VMP stars with available high-quality…

astro-ph.SR2024

Planets Around Solar Twins/Analogs (PASTA) I.: High precision stellar chemical abundance for 17 planet-hosting stars and the condensation temperature trend

Qinghui Sun, Sharon Xuesong Wang, Tianjun Gan +30

The Sun is depleted in refractory elements compared to nearby solar twins, which may be linked to the formation of giant or terrestrial planets. Here we present high-resolution, hi…

astro-ph.IM2022

ET White Paper: To Find the First Earth 2.0

Jian Ge, Hui Zhang, Weicheng Zang +163

We propose to develop a wide-field and ultra-high-precision photometric survey mission, temporarily named "Earth 2.0 (ET)". This mission is designed to measure, for the first time,…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Stellar Abundances and Galactic Evolution Survey (SAGES) -- -- I. General Description and the First Data Release (DR1)

Zhou Fan, Gang Zhao, Wei Wang +35

The Stellar Abundances and Galactic Evolution Survey (SAGES) of the northern sky is a specifically-designed multi-band photometric survey aiming to provide reliable stellar paramet…

astro-ph.GA2025

Milky Way Mass Through Escape Velocity Curve from LAMOST K Giants

Yin Wu, Haining Li, Yang Huang +2

Escape velocity has long been used to constrain the mass of the Dark Matter (DM) halo in the Milky Way (MW). Here we present a study of the escape velocity curve using a sample of…

astro-ph.SR2025

Homogeneous Stellar Atmospheric Parameters and 22 Elemental Abundances for FGK Stars Derived From LAMOST Low-resolution Spectra with DD-Payne

Meng Zhang, Maosheng Xiang, Yuan-Sen Ting +11

A deep understanding of our Galaxy desires detailed decomposition of its stellar populations via their chemical fingerprints. This requires precise stellar abundances of many eleme…

astro-ph.SR2020

Most Lithium-rich Low-mass Evolved Stars Revealed as Red Clump stars by Asteroseismology and Spectroscopy

Hong-Liang Yan, Yu-Tao Zhou, Xianfei Zhang +19

Lithium has confused scientists for decades at almost each scale of the universe. Lithium-rich giants are peculiar stars with lithium abundances over model prediction. A large frac…

astro-ph.SR2016

High-resolution spectroscopy of the extremely iron-poor post-AGB star CC Lyr

Wako Aoki, Tadafumi Matsuno, Satoshi Honda +3

High-resolution optical spectroscopy was conducted for the metal-poor post-AGB star CC Lyr to determine its chemical abundances and spectral line profiles. Our standard abundance a…

astro-ph.SR2025

Abundance Pattern Fitting with Bayesian Inference: Constraining First Stars' Properties and Their Explosion Mechanism with Extremely Metal-poor Stars

Ruizheng Jiang, Haining Li, Gang Zhao +2

The abundance patterns of extremely metal-poor stars preserve a fossil record of the Universe's earliest chemical enrichment by the supernova explosions from the evolution of first…

astro-ph.SR2026

The Stellar Abundances and Galactic Evolution Survey (SAGES). V. The First Data Release of the DDO51 Band

Qiqian Zhang, Zhou Fan, Gang Zhao +20

We present the first public data release of DDO51 band from the Stellar Abundances and Galactic Evolution Survey (SAGES), based on Nanshan One-meter Wide-field Telescope (NOWT) obs…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Stellar Abundances and Galactic Evolution Survey (SAGES) III -- The g/r/i-band Data Release

Chun Li, Zhou Fan, Gang Zhao +15

The Stellar Abundances and Galactic Evolution Survey (SAGES) is a multi-band survey that covers the northern sky area of ~12000 deg2. Nanshan One-meter Wide-field Telescope (NOWT)…

astro-ph.SR2022

Four-hundred Very Metal-poor Stars studied with LAMOST and Subaru. I. Survey Design, Follow-up Program, and Binary Frequency

Wako Aoki, Haining Li, Tadafumi Matsuno +11

The chemical abundances of very metal-poor stars provide important constraints on the nucleosynthesis of the first generation of stars and early chemical evolution of the Galaxy. W…

astro-ph.SR2025

An Actinide-boost Star Discovered in the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus

Yangming Lin, Haining Li, Ruizheng Jiang +6

We report the discovery of an actinide-boost, very metal-poor (), -process-enhanced () star, LAMOST J0804+5…

cs.LG2021

An Efficient Algorithm for Deep Stochastic Contextual Bandits

Tan Zhu, Guannan Liang, Chunjiang Zhu +2

In stochastic contextual bandit (SCB) problems, an agent selects an action based on certain observed context to maximize the cumulative reward over iterations. Recently there have…

astro-ph.GA2025

Chasing the formation history of the Galactic metal-poor disc

Xiaokun Hou, Ruizhi Zhang, Haining Li +1

In our previous work, we identified metal-poor stars ([Fe/H] -1.0) from the LAMOST Survey. This work estimates their chemical abundances and explores the origin a…

astro-ph.GA2022

Estimation of stellar atmospheric parameters from LAMOST DR8 low-resolution spectra with 20SNR30

Xiangru Li, Zhu Wang, Si Zeng +4

The accuracy of the estimated stellar atmospheric parameter decreases evidently with the decreasing of spectral signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and there are a huge amount of this kind…

astro-ph.SR2020

LAMOST Medium-Resolution Spectroscopic Survey (LAMOST-MRS): Scientific goals and survey plan

Chao Liu, Jianning Fu, Jianrong Shi +38

Since September 2018, LAMOST starts a new 5-year medium-resolution spectroscopic survey (MRS) using bright/gray nights. We present the scientific goals of LAMOST-MRS and propose a…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Spectroscopic and Photometric Study of a Star Cluster Sample in Andromeda Halo

Hongrui Gu, Zhou Fan, Bingqiu Chen +18

Halo star clusters serve as vital tracers for the formation and evolution of the Andromeda galaxy. In this work, we present physical parameters for 29 M31 halo star clusters, deriv…