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Xiaohu Yang is affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China and specializes in the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a particular focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Their body of work encompasses a total of 309 publications within this main field, including significant contributions to several subfields such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Computational Mechanics, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad spectrum related to cosmic phenomena and instrumentation, with over 180 publications addressing Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena. Other areas of frequent investigation include Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, and Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing.

Their publication record is extensive, with frequent venues for their work including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Science China Physics Mechanics and Astronomy
  • Journal of Physics Conference Series

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Xiaohu Yang include:

  • Measures of galaxy environment - I. What is 'environment'? (2024) published in OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Emerging information and communication technologies for smart energy systems and renewable transition (2023) published in Advances in Applied Energy
  • The Three Hundred project: The gizmo-simba run (2022) published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The origin of galaxy colour bimodality in the scatter of the stellar-to-halo mass relation (2021) published in Nature Astronomy
  • UV and U-band luminosity functions from CLAUDS and HSC-SSP - I. Using four million galaxies to simultaneously constrain the very faint and bright regimes to z ∼ 3 (2020) published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Collaborative work forms a significant part of Xiaohu Yang's research. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Yipeng Jing
  • H. J. Mo
  • Qingyang Li
  • Haojie Xu
  • Huiyuan Wang

Best Publications

  • Galaxy Groups in the SDSS DR4: I. The Catalogue and Basic Properties

    Xiaohu Yang;H.J. Mo;Frank C. van den Bosch;Anna Pasquali

  • Galaxy Groups in the SDSS DR4. I. The Catalog and Basic Properties

    Xiaohu Yang;H. J. Mo;Frank C. van den Bosch;Anna Pasquali

  • Properties of Galaxy Groups in the SDSS: I.-- The Dependence of Colour, Star Formation, and Morphology on Halo Mass

    Simone M. Weinmann;Frank C. van den Bosch;Xiaohu Yang;H. J. Mo

  • Properties of galaxy groups in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey – I. The dependence of colour, star formation and morphology on halo mass

    Simone M. Weinmann;Simone M. Weinmann;Frank C. van den Bosch;Frank C. van den Bosch;Xiaohu Yang;H. J. Mo

  • Constraining galaxy formation and cosmology with the conditional luminosity function of galaxies

    Xiaohu Yang;H. J. Mo;Frank C. van den Bosch

  • A halo-based galaxy group finder: calibration and application to the 2dFGRS

    Xiaohu Yang;H. J. Mo;Frank C. van den Bosch;Y. P. Jing

  • The importance of satellite quenching for the build-up of the red sequence of present-day galaxies

    Frank C. Van Den Bosch;Daniel Aquino;Xiaohu Yang;H. J. Mo

  • Towards a Concordant Model of Halo Occupation Statistics

    Frank C. van den Bosch;Xiaohu Yang;H.J. Mo;Simone M. Weinmann

  • Satellite kinematics – III. Halo masses of central galaxies in SDSS

    Surhud More;Surhud More;Frank C. van den Bosch;Frank C. van den Bosch;Marcello Cacciato;Marcello Cacciato;Ramin Skibba;Ramin Skibba

  • Galaxy groups in the SDSS DR4. II. Halo occupation statistics

    Xiaohu Yang;Xiaohu Yang;H. J. Mo;Frank C. van den Bosch

  • EVOLUTION OF THE GALAXY-DARK MATTER CONNECTION AND THE ASSEMBLY OF GALAXIES IN DARK MATTER HALOS

    Xiaohu Yang;H. J. Mo;Frank C. van den Bosch;Youcai Zhang

  • Galaxy Groups in the SDSS DR4. III. The Luminosity and Stellar Mass Functions

    Xiaohu Yang;H. J. Mo;Frank C. van den Bosch

  • Towards a concordant model of halo occupation statistics

    Frank C. Van Den Bosch;Xiaohu Yang;H. J. Mo;Simone M. Weinmann

  • Cosmological constraints from a combination of galaxy clustering and lensing – I. Theoretical framework

    Frank C. van den Bosch;Surhud More;Marcello Cacciato;Houjun Mo

  • Are Brightest Halo Galaxies Central Galaxies

    Ramin A. Skibba;Ramin A. Skibba;Frank C. van den Bosch;Xiaohu Yang;Surhud More;Surhud More

  • Properties of Galaxy Groups in the SDSS: II.- AGN Feedback and Star Formation Truncation

    Simone M. Weinmann;Frank C. van den Bosch;Xiaohu Yang;H. J. Mo

  • Cosmological Constraints from a Combination of Galaxy Clustering and Lensing -- III. Application to SDSS Data

    Marcello Cacciato;Frank C. van den Bosch;Surhud More;Surhud More;Houjun Mo

  • Linking early‐ and late‐type galaxies to their dark matter haloes

    Frank C. van den Bosch;Xiaohu Yang;H. J. Mo

  • Environmental effects on satellite galaxies: the link between concentration, size and colour profile

    Simone M. Weinmann;Guinevere Kauffmann;Frank C. van den Bosch;Anna Pasquali

  • The Spin and Orientation of Dark Matter Halos Within Cosmic Filaments

    Youcai Zhang;Youcai Zhang;Xiaohu Yang;Andreas Faltenbacher;Volker Springel

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank C. van den Bosch
Frank C. van den Bosch Yale University
Houjun Mo
Houjun Mo University of Massachusetts Amherst
Neal Katz
Neal Katz University of Massachusetts Amherst
Volker Springel
Volker Springel Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Stefano Borgani
Stefano Borgani University of Trieste
Daniel H. McIntosh
Daniel H. McIntosh University of Missouri–Kansas City
Romeel Davé
Romeel Davé University of Edinburgh
Gustavo Yepes
Gustavo Yepes Autonomous University of Madrid
Dennis Zaritsky
Dennis Zaritsky University of Arizona
Jean-Paul Kneib
Jean-Paul Kneib École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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