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CURRICULUM VITAE
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden Street, MS-51
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
[email protected]
Phone: (617)-495-5374
Fax: (617)-495-7093
Homepage:
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/∼yshen/
Education
Princeton University (2005 – 2009)
• Ph.D, in Astrophysics, September 2009
Thesis: Constraining the cosmic evolution of supermassive black holes
with statistical quasar samples
Advisor: Prof. Michael A. Strauss
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (1998 – 2005)
• M.S., in Physics, July 2005
Advisor: Prof. Yu-Qing Lou
• B.S., in Physics, July 2002
Employment
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 2009 –
Selected
Honors and
Awards
Clay Fellowship, 2009, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Frelinghuysen Fellowship, 2005, Princeton University
Yej Chi-Sun Prize, 2002, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University
Current
Research
Focus
Quasars and SMBHs: quasar demographics and clustering; cosmological
SMBH models; physical properties of AGNs; quasar hosts and feedback;
evolution of BH scaling relations; quasar absorption lines; binary and recoil
SMBHs; survey and time-domain AGN science
Observing
Programs
Ground-based (optical and near-IR):
• > 20 nights on McDonald Obs 2.7m (VIRUS-P), ARC 3.5m (DIS, TSPEC), WIYN 3.5m (WHIRC)
• > 10 nights on Magellan-Baade 6.5m (PANIC, FIRE), MMT 6.5m
(BlueChannel), Keck-II (ESI)
Space-based:
• HST GO-12363 (PI, 4 orbits), SNAP-12521 (Co-I, 195 orbits)
• Chandra GO-12700246 (PI, 86 ks)
• Spitzer GO-50681 (Co-I)
Research
Experience
Theoretical Work
• 2002 – 2005, disk hydrodynamics/MHD and self-similar solutions of
fluid systems; [analytical and semi-analytical work]
• 2006, hydrodynamic simulations of accretion disks with Athena; [numerical work]
• 2007 – 2008, light scattering properties of dust aggregates with the
discrete-dipole approximation method; [numerical work]
• 2008, distributions of exoplant eccentricities; [statistical modeling]
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• 2008, dynamics of irregular satellites in the Solar System; [numerical
work]
• 2009 – , cosmological SMBH models; [semi-analytical work]
• 2010 – , theoretical investigations of emission line diagnosis as a way to
identify close binary SMBHs; [semi-analytical and numerical work]
• 2010 – , statistical biases in virial BH mass estimates and their implications; [statistical modeling]
Observational Work
• 2006 – , quasar clustering, virial BH mass estimates, and statistical
properties of quasars with SDSS data; [data analysis]
• 2007 (summer), optical and X-ray properties of groups of galaxies; as
a summer student at Carnegie Observatories; [data analysis]
• 2009 – , searches for binary AGNs and follow-up observations in groundbased optical/near-IR, and with HST/Chandra imaging; [observations
and data analysis]
• 2010 – , luminosity function and BH mass function of quasars; [data
analysis]
• 2010 – , improving virial BH mass estimators with optical and near-IR
spectroscopy; [observations and data analysis]
• 2011 – , properties of intrinsic quasar absorption lines; [observations
and data analysis]
Teaching
Experience
Teaching Assistant
• AST303 – Observing and Modeling the Universe (Fall 2008, Princeton)
• Introduction to Astrophysics (Fall 2004, Tsinghua Univ.)
Misc.
Peer review for ApJ, MNRAS, PASP, JQSRT
References
Prof. Michael A. Strauss
Department of Astrophysical Sciences
Peyton Hall, Ivy Lane
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
[email protected]
Tel: (609) 258-3808
Prof. Scott Tremaine
Institute for Advanced Study
Einstein Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
[email protected]
Tel: (609) 734-8191
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Prof. Avi Loeb
Department of Astronomy
Harvard University
60 Garden Street, MS-51
Cambridge, MA 02138
[email protected]
Tel: (617) 496-6808
YUE SHEN
Referred
Journal
Articles
PUBLICATIONS
NASA ADS records: 44 refereed papers; total citations > 1300; first-author
citations > 600.
First- and second-author papers
1. Shen, Y., Kelly, B. C. 2011, ApJ, submitted, arXiv:1107.4372, The
Demographics of Broad-Line Quasars in the Mass-Luminosity Plane.
I. Testing FWHM-Based Virial Black Hole Masses
2. Shen, Y., Ménard, B. 2011, ApJ, submitted, arXiv:1104.0778, On
the Link between Associated MgII Absorbers and Star Formation in
Quasar Hosts
3. Liu, X., Shen, Y., Strauss, M. A. 2011, ApJL, 736, 7L, Cosmic Train
Wreck by Massive Black Holes: Discovery of a Kiloparsec-scale Triple
Active Galactic Nucleus
4. Liu, X., Shen, Y., Strauss, M. A. 2011, ApJ, in press, Active Galactic Nucleus Pairs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. II. Evidence for
Tidally Enhanced Star Formation and Black Hole Accretion
5. Liu, X., Shen, Y., Strauss, M. A., Hao, L. 2011, ApJ, 737, 101,
Active Galactic Nucleus Pairs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I.
The Frequency on ∼5-100 kpc Scales
6. Shen, Y., Liu, X., Greene, J. E., Strauss, M. A. 2011, ApJ, 735, 48,
Type 2 Active Galactic Nuclei with Double-peaked [O III] Lines. II.
Single AGNs with Complex Narrow-line Region Kinematics are More
Common than Binary AGNs
7. Shen, Y., et al. 2011, ApJS, 194, 45, A Catalog of Quasar Properties
from SDSS DR7
8. Lin Y.-T., Shen, Y., Strauss M. A., Richards, G. T., Lunnan, R.
2010, ApJ, 723, 1119, On the Populations of Radio Galaxies with
Extended Morphology at z < 0.3
9. Shen, Y., Kelly, B. C. 2010, ApJ, 713, 41, The Impact of the Uncertainty in Single-Epoch Virial Black Hole Mass Estimates on the
Observed Evolution of the Black Hole - Bulge Scaling Relations
10. Shen, Y., Loeb, A. 2010, ApJ, 725, 249, Identifying Supermassive
Black Hole Binaries With Broad Emission Line Diagnosis
11. Liu, X., Shen, Y., Strauss, M. A., Greene, J. E. 2010, ApJ, 708,
427, Type 2 AGNs with Double-Peaked [O III] Lines: Narrow Line
Region Kinematics or Merging Supermassive Black Hole Pairs?
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12. Shen, Y. et al. 2010, ApJ, 719, 1693, Binary Quasars at High Redshift II: Sub-Mpc Clustering at z ∼ 3 − 4
13. Shen, Y. 2009, ApJ, 704, 89, Sumpermassive Black Holes in the Hierarchical Universe: A General Framework and Observational Tests
14. Shen, Y., Draine, B. T., & Johnson, E. T. 2009, ApJ, 696, 2126,
Modeling Porous Dust Grains with Ballistic Aggregates II: Properties
of Scattered Light
15. Shen, Y., et al. 2009, ApJ, 697, 1656, Quasar Clustering from SDSS
DR5: Dependences on Physical Properties
16. Ross, N., Shen, Y., et al. 2009, ApJ, 697, 1634, Clustering of LowRedshift (z <=2.2) Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
17. Shen, Y., & Tremaine, S. 2008, AJ, 136, 2453, Stability of Distant
Satellites of Giant Planets in the Solar System
18. Shen, Y., Draine, B. T., & Johnson, E. T. 2008, ApJ, 689, 260,
Modeling Porous Dust Grains with Ballistic Aggregates I: Geometry
and Optical Properties
19. Shen, Y., & Turner, E. L. 2008, ApJ, 685, 553, On the Eccentricity
Distribution of Exoplanets from Radial Velocity Surveys
20. Shen, Y., Greene, J. E., Strauss, M. A., Richards, G. T., & Schneider, D. P. 2008, ApJ, 680, 169, Biases in Virial Black Hole Masses:
An SDSS Perspective
21. Shen, Y., et al. 2008, ApJ, 677, 858, Do Broad Absorption Line
Quasars Live in Different Environments from Ordinary Quasars?
22. Shen, Y., et al. 2007, AJ, 133, 2222, Clustering of High-Redshift
(z >= 2.9) Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
23. Shen, Y., Mulchaey, J, S., Raychaudhury, S., Rasmussen, J., & Ponman, T. J. 2007, ApJ, 654L, 115, Differences in the AGN Populations
of Groups and Clusters: Clues to AGN Evolution
24. Shen, Y., Stone, J. M., & Gardiner, T. A. 2006, ApJ, 653, 513,
Three-dimensional Compressible Hydrodynamic Simulations of Vortices in Disks
25. Shen, Y., & Lou, Y.-Q. 2006, MNRAS, 370L, 85, Dispersal of
Gaseous Circumstellar Discs around High-mass Stars
26. Hu, J., Shen, Y., Lou, Y.-Q., & Zhang, S. N. 2006, MNRAS, 365,
345, Forming supermassive black holes by accreting dark and baryon
matter
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27. Shen, Y., & Lou, Y.-Q., 2005, ChJAS, 5, 241, Outflows and Inflows
in Astrophysical Systems
28. Shen, Y., Liu, X., & Lou, Y.-Q. 2005, MNRAS, 356, 1333, Structures in a class of magnetized scale-free discs
29. Shen, Y., & Lou, Y.-Q. 2004, ChJAA, 4, 541, Global Axisymmetric
Stability Analysis for a Composite System of Two Gravitationally
Coupled Scale-Free Discs
30. Shen, Y., & Lou, Y.-Q., 2004, MNRAS, 353, 249, Gravitationally
coupled scale-free discs
31. Shen, Y., & Lou, Y.-Q., 2004, ApJ, 611L, 117, Shocked Self-similar
Collapses and Flows in Star Formation Processes
32. Lou, Y.-Q., & Shen, Y. 2004, MNRAS, 348, 717, Envelope expansion
with core collapse - I. Spherical isothermal similarity solutions
33. Shen, Y., & Lou, Y.-Q., 2003, MNRAS, 345, 1340, Axisymmetric
stability criterion for two gravitationally coupled singular isothermal
discs
34. Lou, Y.-Q., & Shen, Y. 2003, MNRAS, 343, 750, Perturbation configurations in a two-fluid system of singular isothermal discs
Contributing-author papers
1. Richards, G. T., et al. 2011, AJ, 141, 167, Unification of Luminous
Type 1 Quasars through CIV Emission
2. Schneider D. P., et al. 2010, AJ, 139, 2360, The Sloan Digital Sky
Survey Quasar Catalog V. Seventh Data Release
3. Liu, X., Greene, J. E., Shen, Y., Strauss, M. A. 2010, ApJL, 715,
30L, Discovery of Four kpc-Scale Binary AGNs
4. Jiang L., et al. 2010, Nature, 464, 380, Dust-free Quasars in the
Early Universe
5. Shankar, F., Weinberg, D. H., Shen, Y. 2010, MNRAS, 406, 1959,
Constraints on black hole duty cycles and the black hole-halo relation
from SDSS quasar clustering
6. Hennawi, J. F., Myers, A. D., Shen, Y. et al. 2010, ApJ, 719, 1672,
Binary Quasars at High Redshift I: 24 New Quasar Pairs at z ∼ 3−4
7. Diamond-Stanic, A. M., et al. 2009, ApJ, 699, 782, High-Redshift
SDSS Quasars with Weak Emission Lines
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8. Gibson, R. R., et al. 2009, ApJ, 692, 758, A Catalog of Broad Absorption Line Quasars in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5
9. Reyes, R., et al. 2008, AJ, 136, 2373, Space Density of OpticallySelected Type 2 Quasars
10. Schneider, D. P., et al. 2007, AJ, 134, 102, The Sloan Digital Sky
Survey Quasar Catalog. IV. Fifth Data Release
Conference
Proceedings
An incomplete list of co-authored conference proceedings.
1. Lin, Y.-T., Shen, Y., Strauss, M., Richards, G., Lunnan, R. 2011,
AAS Meeting, Classification and Statistical Properties of Radio Galaxies with Extended Morphology at z < 0.3
2. Ross, N. P., Shen, Y., et al. 2008, in “Classification and Discovery in
Large Astronomical Surveys”, Clustering of Low-Redshift (z <= 2.2)
Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
3. Strauss, M. A., Shen, Y., Bahcall, N. A., Hall, P. B. 2008, in
“Panoramic Views of Galaxy Formation and Evolution”, Studying
the Clustering and Black Hole Masses of Active Galactic Nuclei with
the SDSS and Future Surveys
4. Reyes, R., et al. 2007, AAS Meeting, Space Density Of OpticallySelected Type II Quasars From The SDSS
5. Mulchaey, J. S., Shen, Y., Rasmussen, J., Ponman, T. J., Raychaudhury, S. 2006, AAS Meeting, First Results from the XMM/IMACS
Groups Project
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