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Overview

Aigen Li is affiliated with the University of Missouri in the United States and specializes in research spanning physics, astronomy, and chemistry. Their contributions include significant work in the fields of astronomy and astrophysics as well as spectroscopy and organic chemistry.

The scientist's publication record features 115 works primarily categorized under physics and astronomy, with 33 publications related to chemistry. Within these broad categories, their research focuses on specific subfields such as astronomy and astrophysics, spectroscopy, organic chemistry, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and atmospheric science.

The main topics covered in their research involve astrophysics and star formation studies, stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, molecular spectroscopy and structure, astro and planetary science, advanced chemical physics studies, fullerene chemistry and applications, and galaxies in terms of their formation, evolution, and phenomena.

Aigen Li has published frequently in a range of scientific venues. The primary outlets include arXiv (Cornell University) with 19 publications, The Astrophysical Journal with 11 papers, the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society with 8, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series with 5, and Astronomy and Astrophysics with 4 papers.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Aigen Li include the following:

  • Spitzer's perspective of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in galaxies, 2020, Nature Astronomy
  • Excitation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission: Dependence on Size Distribution, Ionization, and Starlight Spectrum and Intensity, 2021, The Astrophysical Journal
  • PDRs4All, 2023, Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • PDRs4All: A JWST Early Release Science Program on Radiative Feedback from Massive Stars, 2022, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
  • PDRs4All, 2024, Astronomy and Astrophysics

The scientist collaborates regularly with several coauthors. Frequent collaborators include Xuejuan Yang, Karl D. Gordon, C. Jäger, Ryan Chown, and Ameek Sidhu.

Best Publications

  • Infrared Emission from Interstellar Dust. IV. The Silicate-Graphite-PAH Model in the Post-Spitzer Era

    Bruce T. Draine;Aigen Li

  • Infrared Emission from Interstellar Dust. II. The Diffuse Interstellar Medium

    Aigen Li;B. T. Draine

  • SINGS: The SIRTF Nearby Galaxies Survey

    Robert C. Kennicutt;Lee Armus;George Bendo;Daniela Calzetti

  • The Mid-Infrared Spectrum of Star-Forming Galaxies: Global Properties of PAH Emission

    J. D. T. Smith;B. T. Draine;D. A. Dale;J. Moustakas

  • Dust Masses, PAH Abundances, and Starlight Intensities in the SINGS Galaxy Sample

    B. T. Draine;D. A. Dale;G. Bendo;K. D. Gordon

  • The Calibration of Mid-Infrared Star Formation Rate Indicators

    D. Calzetti;D. Calzetti;R. C. Kennicutt;C. W. Engelbracht;C. Leitherer

  • The mid-infrared spectrum of star-forming galaxies: Global properties of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission

    J. D.T. Smith;Bruce T. Draine;D. A. Dale;J. Moustakas

  • Infrared Emission from Interstellar Dust. I. Stochastic Heating of Small Grains

    B. T. Draine;Aigen Li

  • A UNIFIED MODEL OF INTERSTELLAR DUST

    A. Li;J. M. Greenberg

  • An Ultraviolet-to-Radio Broadband Spectral Atlas of Nearby Galaxies

    D. A. Dale;A. Gil de Paz;K. D. Gordon;H. M. Hanson

  • An Ultraviolet-to-Radio Broadband Spectral Atlas of Nearby Galaxies

    D. A. Dale;A. Gil de Paz;K. D. Gordon;H. M. Hanson

  • Infrared Spectral Energy Distributions of Nearby Galaxies

    D. A. Dale;G. J. Bendo;C. W. Engelbracht;K. D. Gordon

  • The Spitzer survey of the small magellanic cloud : S3MC imaging and photometry in the mid-and far-infrared wave bands

    Alberto D. Bolatto;Joshua D. Simon;Snežana Stanimirović;Snežana Stanimirović;Jacco Th. van Loon

  • Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally-Stripped, Low Metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud (SAGE-SMC). I. Overview

    Karl D. Gordon;Margaret Meixner;Marilyn Meade;Barbara A. Whitney

  • The Spitzer Survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud: S3MC Imaging and Photometry in the Mid- and Far-Infrared Wavebands

    Alberto D. Bolatto;Joshua D. Simon;Snezana Stanimirovic;Jacco Th. van Loon

  • Non-standard grain properties, dark gas reservoir, and extended submillimeter excess, probed by Herschel in the Large Magellanic Cloud

    F. Galliano;S. Hony;J.-P. Bernard;C. Bot

  • Approaching the Interstellar Grain Organic Refractory Component

    J. Mayo Greenberg;Aigen Li;Celia X. Mendoza-Gómez;Willem A. Schutte

  • On ultrasmall silicate grains in the diffuse interstellar medium

    Aigen Li;Bruce T. Draine

  • Stellar Abundance and Galactic Chemical Evolution through LAMOST Spectroscopic Survey

    Gang Zhao;Yu-Qin Chen;Jian-Rong Shi;Yan-Chun Liang

  • Do the Infrared Emission Features Need Ultraviolet Excitation? The PAH Model in UV-Poor Reflection Nebulae

    Aigen Li;B.T. Draine

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce T. Draine
Bruce T. Draine Princeton University
George J. Bendo
George J. Bendo University of Manchester
Charles W. Engelbracht
Charles W. Engelbracht University of Arizona
Daniel A. Dale
Daniel A. Dale University of Wyoming
George Helou
George Helou California Institute of Technology
Robert C. Kennicutt
Robert C. Kennicutt University of Cambridge
Fabian Walter
Fabian Walter Max Planck Society
Margaret Meixner
Margaret Meixner Space Telescope Science Institute
Eric J. Murphy
Eric J. Murphy National Radio Astronomy Observatory
William T. Reach
William T. Reach Universities Space Research Association

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