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most citedSciences with the 2.5-meter Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST)

117 citations · 586 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The Physical Origins of Scatter in the Dust Attenuation Scaling Relation of Star-Forming Galaxies: Star--Dust Geometry

Zongfei Lyu, Xian Zhong Zheng, Zhizheng Pan +11

Characterising the physical drivers of dust attenuation in star-forming galaxies (SFGs) is essential for interpreting their spectral energy distributions and star formation histori…

astro-ph.GA2025

On the formation of star-forming galaxies having anomalously low-metallicity regions: the role of galaxy interaction and CGM/IGM accretion

Yibo Cao, Zhizheng Pan

Gas accretion from both the circum-galactic medium (CGM)/inter-galatic medium (IGM) and interacting companion galaxy can dilute the gas phase metallicity of a galaxy. However, thei…

astro-ph.GA2025

The H concentration of local star-forming galaxies: implications for galaxy structure formation

Zhizheng Pan, Xianzhong Zheng, Xu Kong

In this work, we present a study on the H emission line flux concentration of 3098 low-redshift star-forming galaxies (SFGs) using the MaNGA data available in the Data Release 1…

astro-ph.GA2025

A Glimpse of Satellite Galaxies in the Milky Way with the 2.5-meter Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST): Bootes III and Draco

Chao Yang, Zhizheng Pan, Min Fang +34

We carry out deep imaging of the Milky Way satellite galaxies, Bootes III and Draco, with WFST as one pilot observing program to demonstrate the capability of WFST. Combining catal…

astro-ph.GA2025

Searching for Nearby Diffuse Dwarf Galaxies in the COSMOS Field

Dongdong Shi, XianZhong Zheng, Zhizheng Pan +5

It remains challenging to systematically survey nearby diffuse dwarf galaxies and address the formation mechanism of this population distinguishing from regular ones. We carry out…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

Understanding the Universal Dust Attenuation Scaling Relation of Star-Forming Galaxies

J. Qin, X. Z. Zheng, S. Wuyts +17

Star-forming galaxies (SFGs) adhere to a surprisingly tight scaling relation of dust attenuation parameterized by the infrared excess (IRX=), being jointly d…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Dust Attenuation Scaling Relation of Star-Forming Galaxies in the EAGLE Simulations

Man Qiao, Xian Zhong Zheng, Antonios Katsianis +11

Dust attenuation in star-forming galaxies (SFGs), as parameterized by the infrared excess (IRX ), is found to be tightly correlated with star formatio…

astro-ph.GA2023

Local star-forming galaxies build up central mass concentration most actively near

Zhizheng Pan, Xianzhong Zheng, Xu Kong

To understand in what mass regime star-forming galaxies (SFGs) build up central mass concentration most actively, we present a study on the luminosity-weighted stellar age radial g…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 117 cited

Sciences with the 2.5-meter Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST)

WFST Collaboration, Tinggui Wang, Guilin Liu +60

The Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) is a dedicated photometric surveying facility being built jointly by the University of Science and Technology of China and the Purple Mountai…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 23 cited

What boost galaxy mergers in two massive galaxy protoclusters at z = 2.24

Shuang Liu, Xianzhong Zheng, Dongdong Shi +10

Characterizing the structural properties of galaxies in high-redshift protoclusters is key to our understanding of the environmental effects on galaxy evolution in the early stages…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 1 cited

The Physical Properties of Star-Forming Galaxies with Strong [O III] Lines at z=3.25

Run Wen, FangXia An, Xian Zhong Zheng +13

We present an analysis of physical properties of 34 [O III] emission-line galaxies (ELGs) at z=3.2540.029 in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDFS). These ELGs are sele…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 26 cited

Submillimetre galaxies in two massive protoclusters at z = 2.24: witnessing the enrichment of extreme starbursts in the outskirts of HAE density peaks

Yuheng Zhang, Xian Zhong Zheng, Dong Dong Shi +18

Submillimetre galaxies represent a rapid growth phase of both star formation and massive galaxies. Mapping SMGs in galaxy protoclusters provides key insights into where and how the…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 23 cited

Systematic biases in determining dust attenuation curves through galaxy SED fitting

Jianbo Qin, Xian Zhong Zheng, Min Fang +16

While the slope of the dust attenuation curve () is found to correlate with effective dust attenuation () as obtained through spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting, it…

astro-ph.GA2021

The cosmic environment overtakes the local density in shaping galaxy star formation

Jian Ren, Zhizheng Pan, XianZhong Zheng +11

The gas supply from the cosmic web is the key to sustain star formation in galaxies. It remains to be explored how the cosmic large-scale structure (LSS) effects on galaxy evolutio…

astro-ph.GA2021

The role of HI in regulating size growth of local galaxies

Zhizheng Pan, Jing Wang, Xianzhong Zheng +1

We study the role of atomic hydrogen (HI) in regulating size growth of local galaxies. The size of a galaxy, , is characterized by the diameter at which the band…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 8 cited

From haloes to galaxies. III. The gas cycle of local galaxy populations

Jing Dou, Yingjie Peng, Alvio Renzini +12

In Dou et al. (2021), we introduced the Fundamental Formation Relation (FFR), a tight relation between specific SFR (sSFR), H star formation efficiency (SFE), and t…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 22 cited

Long Tidal Tails in Merging Galaxies and Their Implications

Jian Ren, Xian Zhong Zheng, David Valls-Gabaud +8

We investigate the properties of long tidal tails using the largest to date sample of 461 merging galaxies with within from th…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 61 cited

xGASS: HI fueling of star formation in disk-dominated galaxies

Jing Wang, Barbara Catinella, Amelie Saintonge +3

We introduce a method to estimate the HI mass within the optical radius of disk galaxies from integrated HI spectra, with an uncertainty of 0.09 dex. We use these estimates to stud…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 5 cited

UV and NIR size of the low-mass field galaxies: the UV compact galaxies

Cheng Cheng, Cong Kevin Xu, Lizhi Xie +10

Most of the massive star-forming galaxies are found to have `inside-out' stellar mass growth modes, which means the inner parts of the galaxies mainly consist of the older stellar…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 6 cited

The evolution of baryonic mass function of galaxies to z=3

Zhizheng Pan, Yingjie Peng, Xianzhong Zheng +2

We combine the published stellar mass function (SMF) and gas scaling relations to explore the baryonic (stellar plus cold gas) mass function (BMF) of galaxies to redshift . We…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 27 cited

Understanding the Discrepancy between IRX and Balmer Decrement in Tracing Galaxy Dust Attenuation

Jianbo Qin, Xian Zhong Zheng, Stijn Wuyts +2

We compare the infrared excess (IRX) and Balmer decrement () as dust attenuation indicators in relation to other galaxy parameters using a sample of 32 000 local…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 4 cited

The inflow and outflow rate evolution of local Milky Way-mass star-forming galaxies since z=1.3

Zhizheng Pan, Yingjie Peng, Xianzhong Zheng +2

We study the gas inflow rate () and outflow rate () evolution of local Milky Way-mass star-forming galaxies (SFGs) since . The stellar mass…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 11 cited

A Universal Relation of Dust Obscuration Across Cosmic Time

Jianbo Qin, X. Z. Zheng, Stijn Wuyts +2

We investigate dust obscuration as parameterised by the infrared excess IRX in relation to global galaxy properties, using a sample of 3200…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 34 cited

Connecting Compact Star-forming and Extended Star-forming Galaxies at Low-redshift: Implications for Galaxy Compaction and Quenching

Enci Wang, Xu Kong, Zhizheng Pan

Previous findings show that the existence of dense cores or bulges is the prerequisite for quenching a galaxy, leading to a proposed two-step quenching scenario: compaction and que…