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Hang Yu is a researcher affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a strong focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Other subfields associated with their work include Geophysics, Ocean Engineering, Oceanography, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, such as:

  • Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology
  • Geophysics and Sensor Technology

Hang Yu has authored a number of papers published predominantly in "Physical Review D." Other frequent venues include arXiv (Cornell University), The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, and Physical Review Letters.

Selected recent publications illustrate the focus on gravitational wave physics and astrophysical binary systems, including:

  • Astrophysics and cosmology with a decihertz gravitational-wave detector: TianGO, 2020, Physical Review D
  • Early warning of coalescing neutron-star and neutron-star-black-hole binaries from the nonstationary noise background using neural networks, 2021, Physical Review D
  • Spin and eccentricity evolution in triple systems: From the Lidov-Kozai interaction to the final merger of the inner binary, 2020, Physical Review D
  • Excitation of f-modes during mergers of spinning binary neutron star, 2020, Physical Review D
  • Non-linear dynamical tides in white dwarf binaries, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Collaborations have involved several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Yanbei Chen
  • Nevin N. Weinberg
  • Phil Arras
  • R. X. Adhikari
  • Brian Seymour

Publications reflect an interest in theoretical and computational aspects of astrophysical phenomena related to compact objects and gravitational-wave sources, with a multidisciplinary approach linking astrophysics and geophysics.

Best Publications

  • GW170817: observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • GW170814: A three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State.

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • GW170608: Observation of a 19-solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • GW170608: Observation of a 19 solar-mass binary black hole coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese;F. Acernese

  • Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass $\sim 3.4 M_{\odot}$

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 M

    R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;S. Abraham;F. Acernese

  • Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA

    B. P. Abbott

  • GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 M$_\odot$ Black Hole with a 2.6 M$_\odot$ Compact Object

    R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott

  • Population Properties of Compact Objects from the Second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

    R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;S. Abraham;F. Acernese

  • Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves from Advanced LIGO’s First Observing Run

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • Properties of the binary neutron star merger GW170817

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence

    Nancy Aggarwal;Lisa Barsotti

Frequent Co-Authors

N. A. Robertson
N. A. Robertson California Institute of Technology
Alessandra Buonanno
Alessandra Buonanno Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Karsten Danzmann
Karsten Danzmann Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
R. Flaminio
R. Flaminio National Institutes of Natural Sciences
David E. McClelland
David E. McClelland Australian National University
J. A. Giaime
J. A. Giaime Louisiana State University

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