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most citedAccurate Measurement of the Lensing Magnification by BOSS CMASS Galaxies and Its Implications for Cosmology and Dark Matter

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astro-ph.GA2026

Where Do Quasars Live? DESI DR1 Constraints from PAC Measurements

Shanquan Gui, Kun Xu, Donghai Zhao

Quasar environments connect the growth of supermassive black holes, active galactic nucleus feedback, and galaxy evolution. Small-scale quasar clustering probes the one-halo regime…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Sinking Statistics of Dark Matter Subhalos Across Hierarchical Levels

Wenkang Jiang, Jiaxin Han, Kun Xu +6

We investigate the mergers among subhalos in a CDM simulation, focusing on two fundamental aspects overlooked by previous studies: 1) how to identify mergers robustly; 2) the st…

astro-ph.GA2026

PAC in DESI. II. Galaxy-halo connection into the frontier

Kun Xu, Carlos S. Frenk, Y. P. Jing +37

Understanding dwarf galaxy formation is crucial for testing dark matter models and reionization physics. However, constructing stellar-mass complete spectroscopic samples at low ma…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Describing the Nonuniversal Galaxy Merger Timescales in IllustrisTNG: Effects of Host Halo Mass, Baryons, and Sample Selection

Kun Xu, Y. P. Jing

Galaxy merger timescales are crucial for understanding and modeling galaxy formation in our hierarchically structured Universe. However, previous studies have reported widely varyi…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Photometric Objects Around Cosmic Webs (PAC). VII. Disentangling Mass and Environment Quenching with the Aid of Galaxy-halo Connection in Simulations

Yun Zheng, Kun Xu, Donghai Zhao +4

Star formation quenching in galaxies is a critical process in galaxy formation. It is widely believed that the quenching process is dominated by the mass of galaxies and/or their e…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 8 cited

PAC.V. The Roles of Mass and Environment in the Quenching of Galaxies

Yun Zheng, Kun Xu, Y. P. Jing +6

The roles that mass and environment play in the galaxy quenching are still under debate. Leveraging the Photometric objects Around Cosmic webs (PAC) method, we analyze the excess s…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Photometric Objects Around Cosmic Webs (PAC). VI. High Satellite Fraction of Quasars

Shanquan Gui, Kun Xu, Y. P. Jing +2

The Photometric objects Around Cosmic webs (PAC) approach developed in Xu et al. (2022b) has the advantage of making full use of spectroscopic and deeper photometric surveys. With…