Biography
My colleagues and I are endeavoring to build an astronomical observatory at Dome A, the highest point in Antarctica. We hope to set up a number of telescopes in the coming years to study the mysterious dark energy in the universe.My research interests include also spectropolarimetry observations of supernovae. The supernovae I study are so far away that even the largest telescopes in the world cannot resolve their shapes through direct imaging. Spectropolarimetry is a technique that enables geometric structures of supernovae to be studied.Most recently I am working on finding supernovae at redshifts above 4.
Latest Publications
Yi Yang, Lifan Wang, Dietrich Baade, Peter. J. Brown, Aleksandar Cikota, Misty
Cracraft, Peter A. Höflich, Justyn R. Maund, Ferdinando Patat, William B.
Sparks, Jason Spyromilio, Heloise F. Stevance, Xiaofeng Wang, and J. Craig
Wheeler.
“Late-time Flattening of Type Ia Supernova Light Curves: Constraints
from SN 2014J in M82.”
The Astrophysical Journal, 852(2), 89, Jan 2018.
Yi Yang, Lifan Wang, Dietrich Baade, Peter. J. Brown, Aleksandar Cikota, Misty
Cracraft, Peter A. Höflich, Justyn R. Maund, Ferdinando Patat, William B.
Sparks, Jason Spyromilio, Heloise F. Stevance, Xiaofeng Wang, and J. Craig
Wheeler.
“Mapping Circumstellar Matter with Polarized Light: The Case of
Supernova 2014J in M82.”
The Astrophysical Journal, 854(1), 55, Feb 2018.
Jujia Zhang, Xiaofeng Wang, József Vinkó, J. Craig Wheeler, Liang
Chang, Yi Yang, Lifan Wang, Qian Zhai, Liming Rui, Jun Mo, Tianmeng Zhang,
Yu Zhang, Jianguo Wang, Jirong Mao, Chuanjun Wang, Weimin Yi, Yuxin Xin,
Wenxiong Li, Baoli Lun, Kaixing Lu, Hanna Sai, Xiangming Zheng, Xiliang
Zhang, Xu Zhou, and Jinming Bai.
“Optical Observations of the Young Type Ic Supernova SN 2014L in
M99.”
The Astrophysical Journal, 863(1), 109, Aug 2018.
Bin Ma, et al.
“The first release of the AST3-1 Point Source Catalogue from Dome
A, Antarctica.”
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479(1),
111--120, May 2018.
F Huang, X-F Wang, G Hosseinzadeh, P J Brown, J Mo, J-J Zhang, K-C Zhang, T-M
Zhang, D-A Howell, I Arcavi, C McCully, S Valenti, L-M Rui, H Song, D-F
Xiang, W-X Li, H Lin, and L-F Wang.
“SN 2016X: a type II-P supernova with a signature of shock
breakout from explosion of a massive red supergiant.”
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(3),
3959--3973, Jan 2018.
