7 papers
Radio Emission from Fast Blue Optical Transients Powered by Trans-relativistic Shocks in Confined Circumstellar Material
Liang-Duan Liu, Jia-Sen Zhang, Zhao-Sheng Zhang +1
Fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) are luminous, rapidly evolving explosions whose radio emission provides a sensitive probe of shock interaction and the circumstellar material (…
Lensed stars in galaxy-galaxy strong lensing -- a JWST prediction for the Cosmic Horseshoe
Sung Kei Li, Luke Weisenbach, Thomas E. Collett +10
We explore for the first time the possibility of detecting lensed star transients in galaxy-galaxy strong lensing systems upon repeated, deep imaging using the {\it James-Webb Spac…
Reliable Tests of Faint-end UV Luminosity Functions in Strong Lensing Fields
Jiashuo Zhang
Dark matter comprises ~85% of the entire mass of the Universe, but the fundamental nature of its constituent particles remains elusive. In this thesis, I test for two competitive d…
Multi-copy Axion Transfer Function and Observational Implications of Effective de Broglie Scales
Jiashuo Zhang, Tom Broadhurst, Jeremy Lim +2
Ultra-light axions are viable fuzzy/wave-like dark matter (DM) candidates generically predicted by the String Axiverse paradigm with multiple particle copies, whereas most of t…
Magnification bias reveals severe contamination in Hubble Frontier Field photo-z catalogs
Jiashuo Zhang, Jeremy Lim, Tom Broadhurst +4
Gravitational lensing by massive galaxy clusters enables faint distant galaxies to be more abundantly detected than in blank fields, thereby allowing one to construct galaxy lumino…
Constraining the z 1 Initial Mass Function with {\it HST} and {\it JWST} Lensed Stars in MACS J0416.1-2403
Sung Kei Li, Jose M. Diego, Ashish K. Meena +19
Our understanding of galaxy properties and evolution is contingent on knowing the initial mass function (IMF), and yet to date, the IMF is constrained only to local galaxies. Indiv…