Haojing Yan
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Research Interests
Prior to 2012, my effort was mostly focused on galaxies at the highest possible redshifts (allowed by the technologies then) and on the mass assembly history of galaxies over cosmic time. The HST WFC3-IR and the Spitzer IRAC marked the high points of our capabilities in these two fields, respectively. Most of the critical questions that could be answered have already been answered, and the rest will have to wait for the next breakthrough in technology. I am, like so many others are, holding breath for the JWST, which will give us real hope in answering the most interesting questions, such as when the first stars and the first galaxies appeared.
In the meantime, my focus has shifted to understanding dust-embedded star formation in galaxies, i.e., understanding far-IR galaxies (FIRGs) and to some extend SMGs as well. In particular, the Herschel surveys have left a wealth of data awaiting exploration, and there are a lot can be done through counterpart identification of the Herschel FIRGs of special interests.
Selected Recent Publications
A Systematic Search for the Reddest Far-infrared and Submillimeter Galaxies: Revealing Dust-embedded Starbursts at High Redshifts (2020, ApJS, 249, 1; arXiv:1912.04354)
Yan, Haojing; Ma, Zhiyuan; Huang, Jia-Sheng; Fan, Lulu
Revealing Dusty Supernovae in High-redshift (Ultra)Luminous Infrared Galaxies through Near-infrared Integrated Light Variability (2018, ApJ, 867, 21; arXiv:1808.01780)
Yan, Haojing; Ma, Zhiyuan; Beacom, John; Runge, James
“Red” but Not “Dead”: Actively Star-forming Brightest Cluster Galaxies at Low Redshifts (2018, ApJ, 853, 47; arXiv:1712.01482)
Runge, James; and Yan, Haojing
On the Limited Sizes of Dusty Starbursting Regions at High Redshifts (2016, ApJ, 820, L16; arXiv:1601.06754)
Yan, Haojing; and Ma, Zhiyuan
Co-evolution of Extreme Star Formation and Quasar: hints from Herschel and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2015, ApJ, 811, 58; arXiv:1501.01240)
Ma, Zhiyuan, and Yan, Haojing
Optical-faint, Far-infrared-bright Herschel Sources in the CANDELS Fields: Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxies at z>1 and the Effect of Source Blending (2014, ApJS, 213, 2)
Yan, Haojing; Stefanon, Mauro; Ma, Zhiyuan; Willner, Steven; Somerville, Rachel; Ashby, Matthew; Davé, Romeel; Perez-Gonzalez, Pablo G.; Cava, Antonio; Wiklind, Tommy; Kocevski, Dale; Rafelski, Marc; Kartaltepe, Jeyhan; Cooray, Asantha
Luminous and High Stellar Mass Candidate Galaxies at z ~ 8 Discovered in the Cosmic Assembly Near-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (2012, ApJ, 761, 177)
Yan, Haojing; Finkelstein, Steven L.; Huang, Kuang-Han; Ryan, Russell E.; Ferguson, Henry C.; Koekemoer, Anton M.; Grogin, Norman A.; Dickinson, Mark; Newman, Jeffrey A.; Somerville, Rachel S.; Davé, Romeel; Faber, S. M.; Papovich, Casey; Guo, Yicheng; Giavalisco, Mauro; Lee, Kyoung-soo; Reddy, Naveen; Cooray, Asantha R.; Siana, Brian D.; Hathi, Nimish P.; Fazio, Giovanni G.; Ashby, Matthew; Weiner, Benjamin J.; Lucas, Ray A.; Dekel, Avishai; Pentericci, Laura; Conselice, Christopher J.; Kocevski, Dale D.; Lai, Kamson
Probing Very Bright End of Galaxy Luminosity Function at z >~ 7 Using Hubble Space Telescope Pure Parallel Observations (2011, ApJ, 728, L22)
Yan, Haojing; Yan, Lin; Zamojski, Michel A.; Windhorst, Rogier A.; McCarthy, Patrick J.; Fan, Xiaohui; Röttgering, Huub J. A.; Koekemoer, Anton M.; Robertson, Brant E.; Davé, Romeel; Cai, Zheng