activity
20242026
most citedWhat causes the ultraviolet extinction bump at the cosmic dawn?

5 citations · 5 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators
Showing 2025Show all

6 papers · 1 filter

astro-ph.EP2025

Infrared Emission of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Molecules in Titan: Cyanonaphthalenes

Li Zhou, Kaijun Li, Aigen Li +1

As the only moon in the solar system with a thick atmosphere, Titan is a compelling and enigmatic world containing a complex organic haze. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) mol…

astro-ph.GA2025

Deuterated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Interstellar Medium: Constraints from the Orion Bar as Observed by the James Webb Space Telescope

Xuejuan Yang, Aigen Li

The gas-phase abundances of deuterium (D) in the local interstellar medium (ISM) exhibit considerable regional variations. Particularly, in some regions the gas-phase D abundances…

astro-ph.GA2025

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon and the Ultraviolet Extinction Bump at the Cosmic Dawn

Qi Lin, Xuejuan Yang, Aigen Li +1

First detected in 1965, the mysterious ultraviolet (UV) extinction bump at 2175 Angstrom is the most prominent spectroscopic feature superimposed on the interstellar extinction cur…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

What causes the ultraviolet extinction bump at the cosmic dawn?

Qi Li, Xuejuan Yang, Aigen Li

The enigmatic ultraviolet (UV) extinction bump at 2175 Angstrom, the strongest spectroscopic absorption feature superimposed on the interstellar extinction curve, has recently been…

astro-ph.GA2025

Interstellar dust revealed by light from cosmic dawn

Xuejuan Yang, Aigen Li

The obscuration of light from a distant galaxy has raised the possibility that a type of carbon dust existed in the earliest epochs of the Universe -- challenging the idea that sta…

astro-ph.GA2025

Unveiling the Aromatic and Aliphatic Universe at Redshifts 0.2--0.5 with JWST NIRCam/WFSS

Jianwei Lyu, Xuejuan Yang, Aigen Li +4

Utilizing deep NIRCam/WFSS data from JWST's FRESCO program, we spectroscopically survey the 3.3 aromatic and 3.4 aliphatic C--H stretching emission bands of polycyclic ar…