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Itai Sfaradi, Raffaella Margutti, Ryan Chornock, A. J. Nayana, Eli Wiston, Fabio De Colle, Tracy E. Clarke, Wendy M. Peters, Paz Beniamini, Wenbin Lu, Rodolfo Barniol Duran, Michael Bietenholz, Collin T. Christy, Deanne L. Coppejans, Maria R. Drout, Dina Ibrahimzade, Michal J. Michalowski, Dan Milisavljevic, Conor M. B. Omand, Yihan Wang, Kate D. Alexander, Carles Badenes, Joe Bright, Jonathan Granot, Erica Hammerstein, Wynn V. Jacobson-Galan, Natalie LeBaron, Kohta Murase, Gitika Rameshan, Huei Sears, Michael Stroh, Giacomo Terreran (2026). A 14-year-old Mystery: The Peculiar Case of the Engine-driven SN 2012ap. arXiv e-prints (submitted to ApJ).

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Liang-Jun Chen, Xiang-Gao Wang, Hou-Jun Lü, WeiKang Zheng, Daniel A. Perley, Da-Bin Lin, Yihan Wang, De-Feng Kong, You-Dong Hu, Jie Xia, S. Bradley Cenko, Hong-Bang Liu, Fei Xie, Jing Lü, En-Wei Liang, Bing Zhang, Alexei V. Filippenko (2026). Signature of a Magnetar Central Engine from the Multiband Afterglow of GRB 151027A Associated with a Supernova. apj.

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C.-Y. Dai, J. Quirola-Vásquez, Y.-H. Wang, H.-L. Li, J. Yang, X.-L. Chen, A.-L. Wang, H. Sun, X.-Y. Wang, B. Zhang, P.~G. Jonker, Y. Liu, W. Yuan, D. Xu, Z.-G. Dai, M.~E. Ravasio, L. Piro, P. O'Brien, D. Stern, H.-M. Zhang, Y.-P. Yang, T. An, Y.-L. Qiu, L.-P. Xin, W.-X. Li, R.-Y. Liu, X.-F. Wu, C.-Y. Wang, D.-M. Wei, Y.-F. Huang, F.~E. Bauer, W.-H. Lei, B.-B. Zhang, N.-C. Sun, H. Gao, V.~S. Dhillon, J. An, C.-H. Bai, A. Martin-Carrillo, H.-Q. Cheng, J.~A. Chacon Chavez, Y. Chen, G.-W. Du, J.~N.~D. van Dalen, A. Esamdin, Y.-Z. Fan, X. Gao, F. Harrison, J.-W. Hu, M.-Q. Huang, S.-M. Jia, A.~J. Levan, C.-K. Li, D.-Y. Li, E.-W. Liang, S. Littlefair, X.-W. Liu, Z.-Y. Liu, Z.-X. Ling, D.~B. Malesani, H.-W. Pan, A. Rodriguez, A. Rossi, D. Mata Sánchez, J. Sánchez-Sierras, X.-J. Sun, M.~A.~P. Torres, A.~P.~C. van Hoof, X.-F. Wang, Q.-Y. Wu, X.-P. Xu, Y.-F. Xu, Y.-W. Yu, C. Zhang, M.-H. Zhang, S.-N. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Y.-H. Zhang, Z.-P. Zhu (2026). An energetic dirty fireball detected in soft X-rays. arXiv e-prints.

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Yihan Wang, Connery Chen, Bing Zhang (2026). VegasAfterglow: A high-performance framework for gamma-ray burst afterglows. Journal of High Energy Astrophysics.

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Ye Li, Hui Sun, Lei Qian, Dong-Yue Li, Yan-Long Hua, Li-Ping Xin, Cheng-Kui Li, Yi-Han Wang, Jia-Rui Niu, Tian-Rui Sun, Zhu-Heng Yao, Jin-Jun Geng, Chi-Chuan Jin, Nanda Rea, Yuan Liu, Zhi-Chen Pan, Tao An, Vadim Burwitz, Zhi-Ming Cai, Jin-Huang Cao, Yong Chen, Hua-Qing Cheng, Wei-Wei Cui, Hua Feng, Peter Friedrich, Da-Wei Han, Jing-Wei Hu, Lei Hu, Yu-Xiang Huang, Shu-Mei Jia, Ji-An Jiang, Bin Li, Feng Li, Ming Liang, Yi-Fang Liang, Hao Liu, He-Yang Liu, Hua-Qiu Liu, Norbert Meidinger, Hai-Wu Pan, Arne Rau, Xin-Wen Shu, Chun Sun, Lian Tao, Jin-Long Tang, Zhen Wan, Hai-Ren Wang, Jian Wang, Jing Wang, Yun-Fei Xu, Yongquan Xue, Xuan Yang, Da-Zhi Yao, Yuhan Yao, Wen Zhao, Xiao-Fan Zhao, Hong-Fei Zhang, Jia-Heng Zhang, Juan Zhang, Mo Zhang, Song-Bo Zhang, Wen-Da Zhang, Xiao-Ling Zhang, Yong-He Zhang, Yong-Kun Zhang, Xian-Zhong Zheng, Yu-Hao Zhu, Ying-Xi Zuo, Sheng-Li Sun, Jian-Yan Wei, Wei-Wei Zhu, Peng Jiang, Weimin Yuan, Xue-Feng Wu, Bing Zhang (2025). Multiwavelength Observations of the Apparently Nonrepeating FRB 20250316A. apj.

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Connery Chen, Yihan Wang, Bing Zhang (2025). X-ray Emission Signatures of Neutron Star Mergers. arXiv e-prints.

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Yihan Wang, Rosalba Perna, Zhaohuan Zhu, Douglas N.~C. Lin (2025). Evolution of Extremely Soft Binaries in Dense Star Clusters: On the Jupiter Mass Binary Objects. apj.

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W. -X. Li, Z. -P. Zhu, X. -Z. Zou, J. -J. Geng, L. -D. Liu, Y. -H. Wang, R. -Z. Li, D. Xu, H. Sun, X. -F. Wang, Y. -W. Yu, B. Zhang, X. -F. Wu, Y. Yang, A.~V. Filippenko, X. -W. Liu, W. -M. Yuan, D. Aguado, J. An, T. An, D.~A.~H. Buckley, A.~J. Castro-Tirado, S. -Y. Fu, J.~P.~U. Fynbo, D.~A. Howell, J. -W. Hu, S. -Q. Jiang, A. Kumar, J. -R. Mao, J.~R. Maund, X. Liu, B. Mockler, A. Moskvitin, M. Andrews, C.~R. Bom, T.~G. Brink, K. Chatterjee, Y. Chen, H. -Q. Cheng, J. Cooke, J.~L. Dai, G. -W. Du, N. Erasmus, Y. Fang, J. Farah, V. Goranskij, M. Gritsevich, M. Gu, Z. Guo, E. Hsiao, Y. -D. Hu, Y. -L. Hua, W. Jacobson-Galán, S. -M. Jia, C. -C. Jin, M.~M. Kasliwal, C.~D. Kilpatrick, B. Kumar, W. -H. Lei, C. -K. Li, D. -Y. Li, L. -P. Li, Z. -X. Ling, Q. -C. Liu, Y. Liu, Y. -Q. Liu, A. López-Oramas, O. Maslennikova, C. McCully, I. Monageng, M. Newsone, E. Padilla Gonzalez, H. -W. Pan, H. -W. Peng, G. Pignata, F. Poidevin, S.~B. Potter, I. Pérez-Fournon, L. Santana-Silva, A. Santos, C. -Y. Song, F. -F. Song, O. Spiridonova, N. -C. Sun, X. -J. Sun, G. Terreran, L. -Z. Wang, L. -F. Wang, B. -T. Wang, Z. -Y. Wang, G. -L. Wu, D. -F. Xiang, H. -F. Xiao, Y. -F. Xu, S. -J. Xue, S. -Y. Yan, Y. -P. Yang, L. -X. Yu, Y. -H. Zhang, Y. -H. Zhang, C. Zhang, J. -H. Zhang, J. -J. Zhang, W. Zheng, H. Zou (2025). An extremely soft and weak fast X-ray transient associated with a luminous supernova. arXiv e-prints.

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Yihan Wang, Bing Zhang (2024). Evidence of a past merger of the Galactic Centre black hole. Nature Astronomy.

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Chaitanya Prasad, Yihan Wang, Rosalba Perna, K.~E. Saavik Ford, Barry McKernan (2024). Tidal disruption events from three-body scatterings and eccentricity pumping in the discs of active galactic nuclei. mnras.

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Yihan Wang, Rosalba Perna, Zhaohuan Zhu (2024). Free-floating binary planets from ejections during close stellar encounters. Nature Astronomy.

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Yihan Wang, Matthew J. Graham, K.~E. Saavik Ford, Barry McKernan, Taeho Ryu, Daniel Stern (2024). Conditions for Changing-Look AGNs from Accretion Disk-Induced Tidal Disruption Events. arXiv e-prints.

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Yihan Wang, Zhaohuan Zhu, Douglas N.~C. Lin (2024). Stellar/BH population in AGN discs: direct binary formation from capture objects in nuclei clusters. mnras.

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Yihan Wang, Douglas N.~C. Lin, Bing Zhang, Zhaohuan Zhu (2024). Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei Behavior Induced by Disk-captured Tidal Disruption Events. apjl.

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Yihan Wang, Bing Zhang, Zhaohuan Zhu (2024). Anisotropic energy injection from magnetar central engines in short GRBs. mnras.

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Chengcheng Xin, Zoltán Haiman, Rosalba Perna, Yihan Wang, Taeho Ryu (2024). ``Tidal Peeling Events'': Low-eccentricity Tidal Disruption of a Star by a Stellar-mass Black Hole. apj.

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Yihan Wang, Saavik Ford, Rosalba Perna, Barry McKernan, Zhaohuan Zhu, Bing Zhang (2023). Effective two-body scatterings around a massive object. mnras.

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Yi-Han Wang, Davide Lazzati, Rosalba Perna (2022). The emergence of diffused gamma-ray burst afterglows from the discs of active galactic nuclei. mnras.

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Taeho Ryu, Rosalba Perna, Yi-Han Wang (2022). Close encounters of stars with stellar-mass black hole binaries. mnras.

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Rosalba Perna, M. Celeste Artale, Yi-Han Wang, Michela Mapelli, Davide Lazzati, Cecilia Sgalletta, Filippo Santoliquido (2022). Host galaxies and electromagnetic counterparts to binary neutron star mergers across the cosmic time: detectability of GW170817-like events. mnras.

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Yi-Han Wang, Rosalba Perna, Nathan W.~C. Leigh, Michael M. Shara (2022). Hot Jupiter formation in dense clusters: secular chaos in multiplanetary systems. mnras.

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Yi-Han Wang, Barry McKernan, Saavik Ford, Rosalba Perna, Nathan W.~C. Leigh, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low (2021). Symmetry Breaking in Dynamical Encounters in the Disks of Active Galactic Nuclei. apjl.

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Yi-Han Wang, Nathan W.~C. Leigh, Bin Liu, Rosalba Perna (2021). SpaceHub: A high-performance gravity integration toolkit for few-body problems in astrophysics. mnras.

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Yi-Han Wang, Rosalba Perna, Philip J. Armitage (2021). Partial tidal disruption events by stellar mass black holes: Gravitational instability of stream and impact from remnant core. mnras.

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Yi-Han Wang, Nathan W.~C. Leigh, Rosalba Perna, Michael M. Shara (2020). Hot Jupiter and Ultra-cold Saturn Formation in Dense Star Clusters. apj.

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Yi-Han Wang, Rosalba Perna, Nathan W.~C. Leigh (2020). Planetary architectures in interacting stellar environments. mnras.

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Yi-Han Wang, Rosalba Perna, Nathan W.~C. Leigh (2020). Giant Planet Swaps during Close Stellar Encounters. apjl.

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Yi-Han Wang, Nathan W.~C. Leigh, Alberto Sesana, Rosalba Perna (2019). The cosmological distribution of compact object mergers from dynamical interactions with SMBH binaries. mnras.

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Bin Liu, Dong Lai, Yi-Han Wang (2019). Binary Mergers near a Supermassive Black Hole: Relativistic Effects in Triples. apjl.

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Bin Liu, Dong Lai, Yi-Han Wang (2019). Black Hole and Neutron Star Binary Mergers in Triple Systems. II. Merger Eccentricity and Spin-Orbit Misalignment. apj.

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Rosalba Perna, Yi-Han Wang, Will M. Farr, Nathan Leigh, Matteo Cantiello (2019). Constraining the Black Hole Initial Mass Function with LIGO/Virgo Observations. apjl.

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Yi-Han Wang, Nathan Leigh, Alberto Sesana, Rosalba Perna (2019). Hypervelocity binaries from close encounters with a SMBH-IMBH binary: orbital properties and diagnostics. mnras.

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Yi-Han Wang, Nathan Leigh, Ye-Fei Yuan, Rosalba Perna (2018). The fate of close encounters between binary stars and binary supermassive black holes. mnras.

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Bin Liu, Yi-Han Wang, Ye-Fei Yuan (2017). Modified evolution of stellar binaries from supermassive black hole binaries. mnras.

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