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Dong Lai is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States, working primarily within the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their research portfolio spans a total of 198 publications in this broad discipline, with a significant focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics, accounting for 182 of these works.

Their scientific contributions cover a range of subfields including Instrumentation, Geophysics, Biomedical Engineering, and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. They have focused extensively on topics such as stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, along with astro and planetary science. Other key research interests include astrophysics and star formation studies, astrophysical phenomena and observations, pulsars and gravitational waves research, gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, and astronomy and astrophysical research.

Dong Lai has published multiple papers in several frequent venues. These include:

  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (28 publications)
  • The Astrophysical Journal (18 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (18 publications)
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters (5 publications)
  • Physical Review D (3 publications)

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Dong Lai, notable examples are:

  • "Circumbinary Accretion: From Binary Stars to Massive Binary Black Holes," 2023, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • "Hydrodynamical Simulations of Black Hole Binary Formation in AGN Disks," 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • "Hydrodynamical evolution of black-hole binaries embedded in AGN discs," 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • "Hierarchical black hole mergers in multiple systems: constrain the formation of GW190412-, GW190814-, and GW190521-like events," 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • "Circumbinary Accretion from Finite and Infinite Disks," 2020, The Astrophysical Journal

Dong Lai has collaborated frequently with the following coauthors:

  • Yubo Su
  • Christopher E. O'Connor
  • Bin Liu
  • L. Rodet
  • Jiaru Li

Best Publications

  • Physics of strongly magnetized neutron stars

    Alice K Harding;Dong Lai

  • Matter in strong magnetic fields

    Dong Lai

  • Cold equation of state in a strong magnetic field - Effects of inverse beta-decay

    Dong Lai;Stuart L. Shapiro

  • Pulsar jets: implications for neutron star kicks and initial spins

    Dong Lai;David F. Chernoff;James M. Cordes

  • Ellipsoidal figures of equilibrium: Compressible models

    Dong Lai;Frederic A. Rasio;Stuart L. Shapiro

  • Star–disc–binary interactions in protoplanetary disc systems and primordial spin–orbit misalignments

    Dong Lai

  • Resonant Oscillations and Tidal Heating in Coalescing Binary Neutron Stars

    Dong Lai

  • Gravitational radiation from rapidly rotating nascent neutron stars

    Dong Lai;Stuart L. Shapiro

  • Evolution of spin direction of accreting magnetic protostars and spin–orbit misalignment in exoplanetary systems

    Dong Lai;Dong Lai;Francois Foucart;Douglas N. C. Lin;Douglas N. C. Lin

  • Photoevaporation and high-eccentricity migration created the sub-Jovian desert

    James E Owen;Dong Lai

  • Suppression of extreme orbital evolution in triple systems with short-range forces

    Bin Liu;Bin Liu;Diego J. Muñoz;Dong Lai

  • Magnetically Driven Warping, Precession and Resonances in Accretion Disks

    Dong Lai

  • Formation and stellar spin-orbit misalignment of hot Jupiters from Lidov–Kozai oscillations in stellar binaries

    Kassandra R. Anderson;Natalia I. Storch;Dong Lai

  • Tidal dissipation in planet‐hosting stars: damping of spin–orbit misalignment and survival of hot Jupiters

    Dong Lai

  • Atmospheres and spectra of strongly magnetized neutron stars

    Wynn C. G. Ho;Dong Lai

  • Atmospheres and Spectra of Strongly Magnetized Neutron Stars II: Effect of Vacuum Polarization

    Wynn C. G. Ho;Dong Lai

  • XIPE: the x-ray imaging polarimetry explorer

    P. Soffitta;R. Bellazzini;E. Bozzo;V. Burwitz

  • Viscous hydrodynamics simulations of circumbinary accretion discs: variability, quasi-steady state and angular momentum transfer

    Ryan Miranda;Diego J. Muñoz;Diego J. Muñoz;Dong Lai;Dong Lai

  • Tidal truncation of inclined circumstellar and circumbinary discs in young stellar binaries

    Ryan Miranda;Dong Lai

  • Atmosphere models of magnetized neutron stars: QED effects, radiation spectra and polarization signals

    M. Van Adelsberg;D. Lai

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart L. Shapiro
Stuart L. Shapiro University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gilles Chabrier
Gilles Chabrier École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Juri Poutanen
Juri Poutanen University of Turku
Frederic A. Rasio
Frederic A. Rasio Northwestern University
Tod E. Strohmayer
Tod E. Strohmayer Goddard Space Flight Center
Andrea Santangelo
Andrea Santangelo University of Tübingen
Silvia Zane
Silvia Zane University College London
Luigi Stella
Luigi Stella National Institute for Astrophysics
Felix Ryde
Felix Ryde Royal Institute of Technology
Nanda Rea
Nanda Rea Spanish National Research Council

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