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most citedThe nanohertz stochastic gravitational wave background from cosmic string loops and the abundant high redshift massive galaxies

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hep-ph2026

Searching for Solar-Basin Axionlike-Particle Decay with XMM-Newton Blank-Sky Observations

Bo Zhang, Chi Zhang, Lei Lei +4

Axion-like particles (ALPs) bound in the solar gravitational field form the so-called ALP solar-basin. Since the two-photon decay of non-relativistic particles is approximately iso…

astro-ph.CO2026★ 2 cited

New measurement at Redshift = 0.12 with DESI Data Release 1

Ze-fan Wang, Lei Lei, Yi-zhong Fan

The Hubble parameter () is a function of the redshift and a reliable measurement is very important to understand the expansion history of the Universe. In this work, we perfo…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Black Holes in the Red-sequence Elliptical Galaxies at Redshifts : Not Dark Energy Source but Remnants of Little Red Dots

Lei Lei, Ze-Fan Wang, Yi-Ying Wang +2

The nature of dark energy remains one of the most profound mysteries in modern cosmology. One intriguing proposal is that black holes (BHs) could be the astrophysical source of dar…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Possible evidence for extended X-ray emission surrounding PSR B0656+14 with eROSITA

Shu Niu, Qiang Yuan, Shui-Nai Zhang +3

Extended very-high-energy -ray emission from middle-aged pulsars as revealed recently by several groundbased -ray experiments has strong implication on the transport of high-…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 5 cited

Can Dark Stars account for the star formation efficiency excess at very high redshifts?

Lei Lei, Yi-Ying Wang, Guan-Wen Yuan +3

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recently conducted observations of massive galaxies at high redshifts, revealing a notable anomaly in their star formation efficiency (SFE…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 5 cited

JWST observations constrain the time evolution of fine structure constants and dark energy - electromagnetic coupling

Ze-Fan Wang, Lei Lei, Lei Feng +1

It was hypothesized in the literature that some physical parameters may be time-evolving and the astrophysical data can serve as a probe. Recently, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST…

astro-ph.GA2024

Could the inter-band lag of active galactic nucleus vary randomly?

Zhen-Bo Su, Zhen-Yi Cai, Jun-Xian Wang +18

The inter-band lags among the optical broad-band continua of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have been intensively explored over the past decade. However, the nature of the lags rema…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Searching for Axion-Like Particles with X-ray Observations of Alpha Centauri

Yu-Xuan Chen, Lei Lei, Zi-Qing Xia +3

We investigate the production of axion-like particles (ALPs) in stellar cores, where they interact with electromagnetic fields and electrons, with typical masses between $\mathcal…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Spatial Distribution of and Ice around Protostars IRAS 16253-2429 and IRAS 23385+6053

Lei Lei, Lei Feng, Yi-Zhong Fan

The origin and evolution of organic molecules represent a pivotal issue in the fields of astrobiology and astrochemistry, potentially shedding light on the origins of life. The Jam…

astro-ph.CO2024

Digging into the ultraviolet luminosity functions of galaxies at high redshifts: galaxies evolution, reionization, and cosmological parameters

Yi-Ying Wang, Lei Lei, Shao-Peng Tang +2

Thanks to the successful performance of the James Webb Space Telescope, our understanding of the epoch of reionization of the Universe has been advanced. The ultraviolet luminosity…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 3 cited

Kilonova-Targeting Lightcurve Classification for Wide Field Survey Telescope

Runduo Liang, Zhengyan Liu, Lei Lei +1

With the enhancement of sensitivity of Gravitational Wave (GW) detectors and capabilities of large survey facilities, such as Vera Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time…

astro-ph.HE2023

Constraints Based on Non-detection of Kilonova Optical Searching

Runduo Liang, Zhengyan Liu, Lei Lei +1

Mergers of binary neutron stars are multimessenger sources of gravitational waves that have an optical luminous counterpart, commonly referred to as 'kilonova'. Inspired by the det…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 35 cited

Modeling the JWST high-redshift galaxies with a general formation scenario and the consistency with the CDM model

Yi-Ying Wang, Lei Lei, Guan-Wen Yuan +1

Early results from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have hinted at two traces beyond the standard cosmological framework. One is the extraordinarily high stellar…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 84 cited

The nanohertz stochastic gravitational wave background from cosmic string loops and the abundant high redshift massive galaxies

Ziwei Wang, Lei Lei, Hao Jiao +2

Recently, pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments have provided compelling evidence for the existence of the nanohertz stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). In this work,…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 23 cited

Black holes as the source of dark energy: a stringent test with high-redshift JWST AGNs

Lei Lei, Lei Zu, Guan-Wen Yuan +12

Studies have proposed that there is evidence for cosmological coupling of black holes (BHs) with an index of ; hence, BHs serve as the astrophysical source of dark ener…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 45 cited

Rapidly growing primordial black holes as seeds of the massive high-redshift JWST Galaxies

Guan-Wen Yuan, Lei Lei, Yuan-Zhu Wang +6

A group of massive galaxies at redshifts of have been recently detected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which were unexpected to form so early within the fra…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 30 cited

Limiting Magnitudes of the Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST)

Lei Lei, Qing-Feng Zhu, Xu Kong +5

Expected to be of the highest survey power telescope in the northern hemisphere, the Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) will begin its routine observations of the northern sky sinc…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 10 cited

GRB 080503: A very early blue kilonova and an adjacent non-thermal radiation component

Hao Zhou, Zhi-Ping Jin, Stefano Covino +5

The temporal behavior of the very dim optical afterglow of GRB 080503 is at odds with the regular forward shock afterglow model and a sole kilonova component responsible for optica…

astro-ph.IM2021

Identifications of RR Lyrae stars and Quasars from the simulated data of Mephisto-W Survey

Lei Lei, Bing-Qiu Chen, Jin-Da Li +3

We have investigated the feasibilities and accuracies of the identifications of RR Lyrae stars and quasars from the simulated data of the Multi-channel Photometric Survey Telescope…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 3 cited

A kilonova from an ultra-quick merger of a neutron star binary

Zhi-Ping Jin, Hao Zhou, Stefano Covino +6

GRB 060505 was the first well-known nearby (at redshift 0.089) "hybrid" gamma-ray burst that has a duration longer than 2 seconds but without the association of a supernova down to…