Huan Yang

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University of Guelph
Research Associate Faculty
Areas of research:
Strong Gravity
(519) 569-7600 x7505
https://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/people/huan-yang
If you are interested in pursuing a MSc degree, please apply to the Perimeter Scholars International (PSI) masters program. If you are interested in working with me as a PhD student, please send me an email at [email protected] or submit an application directly to my department at the University of Guelph and indicate that you would like to be supervised by me.
My current research interest mainly focuses on gravitational wave astrophysics, with strong connection to gravitational wave observations. There are two main themes: 1. Strong-field gravitational astrophysics. The objectives are to unravel physics buried within the data, provide new insights to guide observations and propose methods to improve data quality. Part of my research projects are related to the dynamics of compact binary and triple (neutron stars and black holes) systems, as well as their associated gravitational-wave emissions. I am also studying electromagnetic counterparts of binary neutron stars or neutron star-black hole mergers, in relation to future multi-messenger observations. 2.Fundamental physics with strongly gravitating systems. The goals are to examine dynamical signatures of modified theories of gravity and develop methods to measure or constrain violationsof General Relativity based on observed gravitational-wave data. As more and more detections are expected in the next a few years, there are unprecedented opportunities to search for "unknown unknowns" in fundamental physics with gravitational waves.
  • 2008-2013. PhD: California Institute of Technology. 2013-2016: Postdoc Fellow: Perimeter Institute 2016-2017: Postdoc Fellow: Princeton University 2017- : Assistant Professor: University of Guelph
  • University of Guelph CEPS Assistant Professor Research Excellence Award
  • Tim Whittaker, William E. East, Stephen R. Green, Luis Lehner, Huan Yang, Using machine learning to parametrize postmerger signals from binary neutron stars, Phys. Rev. D 105, 124021 (2022), arXiv: 2201.06461
  • Shammi Tahura, Zhen Pan, Huan Yang, Science Potential for Stellar-mass Black Holes as Neighbors of Sgr A*, Phys. Rev. D 105, 123018 (2022), arXiv: 2201.03154
  • Yun Fang, Huan Yang, Orbit Tomography of Binary Supermassive Black Holes with Very Long Baseline Interferometry, The Astrophysical Journal 927, 93, 2022, arXiv: 2111.00368
  • Zhen Pan, Zhenwei Lyu, Huan Yang, Mass-gap extreme mass ratio inspirals, Phys. Rev. D 105, 083005, (2022), arXiv: 2112.10237
  • Zhen Pan,, Huan Yang, Supercritical accretion of stellar-mass compact objects in active galactic nuclei, The Astrophysical Journal 923, 173, 2021, arXiv: 2108.00267
  • Beatrice Bonga, Huan Yang, Mimicking Kerr's multipole moments, Phys. Rev. D, 104, 2021, 084040, arXiv: 2106.08342
  • Jun Zhang, Zhenwei Lyu, Junwu Huang, Matthew C. Johnson, Laura Sagunski, Mairi Sakellariadou, Huan Yang, First Constraints on Light Axions from the Binary Neutron Star Gravitational Wave Event GW170817, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 161101,2021, arXiv: 2105.13963
  • Zhen Pan, Zhenwei Lyu, Huan Yang, Wet Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals May Be More Common For Spaceborne Gravitational Wave Detection, Phys. Rev. D 104, 063007 (2021), arXiv: 2104.01208
  • Xuefeng Feng, Zhenwei Lyu, Huan Yang, Black-Hole Perturbation Plus Post-Newtonian Theory: Hybrid Waveform for Neutron Star Binaries, Phys. Rev. D 105, 104043 (2022), arXiv: 2104.11848
  • Huan Yang, Relating Black Hole Shadow to Quasinormal Modes for Rotating Black Holes, Phys. Rev. D 103, 084010 (2021), arXiv: 2101.11129
  • Zhen Pan, Huan Yang, Formation Rate of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals in Active Galactic Nuclei, Phys. Rev. D 103, 103018 (2021), arXiv: 2101.09146
  • Zhen Pan, Huan Yang, Probing the Growth of Massive Black Holes with Black Hole-Host Galaxy Spin Correlations, arXiv: 2007.03783, accepted in The Astrophysical Journal
  • Zhen Pan, Zhenwei Lyu, Beatrice Bonga, Nestor Ortiz, Huan Yang, Probing Crust Meltdown in Inspiraling Binary Neutron Stars, Phys. Re. Lett. 125 201102 (2020). arXiv: 2003.03330
  • Huan Yang, Yuan-Chuan Zou, Orbit-Induced Spin Precession as an origin of Periodicity in Periodically-Repeating Fast Radio Bursts, The Astrophysical Journal Letter, 893, L31, 2020, arXiv: 2002.02553
  • Zhen Pan, Huan Yang, Porbing Primordial Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background with Multiband Astrophysical Foreground Cleaning, accepted in CQG, arXiv: 1910.09637
  • Huan Yang, Beatrice Bonga, Zhipeng Peng, Gongjie LI, Relativistic Mean Motion Resonance, Phys. Rev. D 100, 124056, (2019), arXiv: 1910.07337
  • Beatrice Bonga, Huan Yang, Scott Hughes, "Tidal Resonance in Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals", arXiv: 1905.00030, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 101103, (2019)
  • Jun Zhang, Huan Yang, "Dynamic Signatures of Black Hole Binaries with Superradiant Clouds", arXiv: 1907.13582, Phys. Rev. D. 101, 043020, (2020)
  • Zhen Pan, Huan Yang, "Black Hole Discharge: very-high-energy gamma rays from black hole-neutron star mergers", arXiv: 1905.04775, Phys. Rev. D. 100, 043025, (2019)
  • Huan Yang, "Inspiralling Eccentric Binary Neutron Stars: Orbital Motion and Tidal Resonance", arXiv: 1904.11089, Phys. Reev. D. 100,064023, (2019)
  • Haixing Miao, Denis Martynov, Huan Yang, "Quantum Correlation of Light Mediated by Gravity", arXiv: 1901.05827, Phys. Rev. A 101,063804, 2020
  • Jun Zhang, Huan Yang. Gravitational floating orbits around hairy black holes. Phys. Rev. D, 99, 064018, (2019).
  • Denis Martynov, Haixing Miao, Huan Yang, et al. Exploring the Sensitivity of Gravitational Wave Detectors to Neutron Star Physics", Phys. Rev. D, 99, 102004, (2019)
  • Alexander Y. Chen, Yajie Yuan, Huan Yang, Physics of Pair Producing Gaps in Black Hole Magnetospheres, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 863:L31, 2018, arXiv: 1805.11039.
  • Huan Yang, William E. East, Vasileios Paschalidis, Frans Pretorius, Raissa F. P. Mendes, Evolution of Highly Eccentric Binary Neutron Stars Including Tidal Effects, Phys. Rev. D 98, 044007 (2018), arXiv: 1806.00158
  • William E. East, Huan Yang, Magnetosphere of a spinning black hole and the role of the current sheet, Phys. Rev. D 98, 023008 (2018), arXiv: 1805.05952
  • Beatrice Bonga, Eric Poisson, Huan Yang, Self-torque and angular momentum balance for a spinning charged sphere, arXiv: 1805.01372
  • Haixing Miao, Huan Yang, Denis Martynov, Towards the Design of Gravitational-Wave Detectors for Probing Neutron-Star Physics, Phys. Rev. D 98, 044044 (2018), arXiv: 1712.07345
  • Emanuele Berti, Kent Yagi, Huan Yang, Nicolás Yunes, Extreme Gravity Tests with Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences: (II) Ringdown, General Relativity and Gravitation 50 (5), 49, (2018). arXiv: 1801.03587
  • Huan Yang, Denis Martynov, Testing Gravitational Memory Generation with Compact Binary Mergers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 071102 (2018), arXiv: 1803.02429
  • Kent Yagi, Huan Yang, Probing Gravitational Parity Violation with Gravitational Waves from Stellar-mass Black Hole Binaries, Phys. Rev. D 97, 104018 (2018), arXiv: 1712.00682
  • Huan Yang, Vasileios Paschalidis, Kent Yagi, Luis Lehner, Frans Pretorius, Nicolas Yunes, Gravitational wave spectroscopy of binary neutron star merger remnants with mode stacking, Phys. Rev. D 97, 024049 (2018), arXiv: 1707.00207
  • Huan Yang, William E. East, Luis Lehner, Can we distinguish low mass black holes in neutron star binaries?, The Astrophysical Journal 856, 110, (2018), arXiv: 1710.05891
  • Zhen Pan,, Huan Yang, Supercritical accretion of stellar-mass compact objects in active galactic nuclei, arXiv: 2108.00267
  • Beatrice Bonga, Huan Yang, Mimicking Kerr's multipole moments, arXiv: 2106.08342
  • Jun Zhang, Zhenwei Lyu, Junwu Huang, Matthew C. Johnson, Laura Sagunski, Mairi Sakellariadou, Huan Yang, First Constraints on Light Axions from the Binary Neutron Star Gravitational Wave Event GW170817, arXiv: 2105.13963
  • Zhen Pan, Zhenwei Lyu, Huan Yang, Wet Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals May Be More Common For Spaceborne Gravitational Wave Detection, arXiv: 2104.01208
  • Quasinormal modes beyond Kerr, Proceedings of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics (2014). Session on 'Gravitational Wave Astrophysics.'
  • Astrophysics Opportunities With LISA, LISA Canada 2022, August 2022
  • Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals as Probes for Fundamental (Astro)physics, CAP Congress, June 2022
  • Modelling Tidal Effects in Compact Binaries, High Precision Gravitational Waves - KITP, May 2022
  • Quasinormal Modes and Their Connection to Black Hole Shadow, [email protected] Seminar, Aveiro University, May 2021
  • Formation and Dynamics of Extreme Mass Ration Inspirals with Environmental Effects, Gravity Seminar, University of Virginia, April 2021
  • Formation and Dynamics of Extreme Mass Ration Inspirals with Environmental Effects, Theoretical Astrophysics (including relativity) Seminar, Cornell University, March 2021
  • Relating Black Hole Shadow to Quasinormal Modes, Gravity Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, March 2021
  • Hierarchical Multi-Body Systems for LISA Detection, LISA Waveform Working Group Workshop, February 2021
  • Relating Black Hole Shadow to Quasinormal Modes, Next-generation Event Horizon Telescope Workshop, February 2021
  • Three-body dynamics in Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals, CAPRA meeting, June 2020
  • Dynamical Signatures of Binary Black Holes with Superradiant Clouds, Texas Symposium, University of Portsmouth, Dec. 2019
  • Three-body dynamics in Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals, Seminar, University of Birmingham, Dec. 2019
  • "Path Towards kHz Gravitational-Wave Astronomy", Theory Canada 14, TRIUMF & UBC, June 2019
  • "Path Towards kHz Gravitational-Wave Astronomy", Gravitational Wave Advanced Detector Workshop, Elba Island, May 2019
  • "Testing General Relativity and the Nature of Gravity", Physics and Astrophysics at the extreme VI, Pisa, May 2019
  • "Probing Neutron Star Physics with Gravitational Wave Detections", CRA Seminar, Georgia Tech, March 2019
  • Kilo-Herhz Gravitational Wave Astronomy, Beijing Normal University, July 2018
  • Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Chapter One, University of Guelph, November 2017
  • Gravitational wave spectroscopy of compact binary merger remnants with mode stacking, Lights, Sounds, Action in Strong field Gravity, November 2017