Yang Sun

Astronomy PhD Candidate at University of Arizona

As First Author:

  1. Sun, Y., Ji, Z., Rieke, G. H., et al. (2025), Extreme Neutral Outflow in an Inactive Quenching Galaxy at z$\sim$1.3, arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2504.14682.
  2. Sun, Y., Rieke, G. H., Lyu, J., et al. (2025), Evolution of the $M_*$–$M_{BH}$ Relation from z$\sim$6 to the Present Epoch, The Astrophysical Journal, 983, 165.
  3. Sun, Y., Lyu, J., Rieke, G. H., et al. (2025), No Evidence for a Significant Evolution of $M_{BH}-M_{*}$ Relation in Massive Galaxies up to z$\sim$4, The Astrophysical Journal, 978, 98.
  4. Sun, Y., Lee, G.-H., Zabludoff, A. I., et al. (2024), Evolution of gas flows along the starburst to post-starburst to quiescent galaxy sequence, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 528, 5783.
  5. Sun, Y., Lee, G.-H., Zabludoff, A. I., et al. (2023), Evolution of Gas Flows over the Starburst to Post-Starburst to Quiescent Galaxy Sequence, Resolving the Rise and Fall of Star Formation in Galaxies, 373, 193.
  6. Sun, Y., Yuan, H., & Chen, B. (2022), Validations and Corrections of the SFD and Planck Reddening Maps Based on LAMOST and Gaia Data, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 260, 17.
  7. Sun, Y., Deng, D.-S., & Yuan, H.-B. (2021), Precision of the Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) stellar radial velocities, Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 21, 092.

As Significant Contributor:

  1. Zhu, Y., Bonaventura, N., Sun, Y., et al. (2025), SMILES Data Release II: Probing Galaxy Evolution during Cosmic Noon and Beyond with NIRSpec Medium-Resolution Spectra, arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2508.12599.
  2. Deng, D., Sun, Y., Wang, T., Wang, Y., & Jiang, B. (2022), Infrared Excess of a Large OB Star Sample, The Astrophysical Journal, 935, 175.
  3. Yuan, H.-B., Deng, D.-S., & Sun, Y. (2021), A star-based method for precise wavelength calibration of the Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) slitless spectroscopic survey, Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 21, 074.
  4. Deng, D., Sun, Y., Jian, M., Jiang, B., & Yuan, H. (2020), Intrinsic Color Indices of Early-type Dwarf Stars, The Astronomical Journal, 159, 208.

Other Collaboration Papers:

  1. D’Eugenio, F., Helton, J. M., Hainline, K., including Sun, Y., et al. (2025), JADES and SAPPHIRES: galaxy metamorphosis amidst a huge, luminous emission-line region, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 542, 960.
  2. Rinaldi, P., Rieke, G. H., Wu, Z., including Sun, Y., et al. (2025), Beyond the Dot: an LRD-like nucleus at the Heart of an IR-Bright Galaxy and its implications for high-redshift LRDs, arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2507.17738.
  3. Stone, M. A., Rieke, G. H., Lyu, J., including Sun, Y., et al. (2025), The $z=7.08$ quasar ULAS J1120+0641 May Never Reach a “Normal” Black Hole to Stellar Mass Ratio, arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2507.13489.
  4. Rieke, G. H., Buiten, V. A., Goldberg, C. E., including Sun, Y., et al. (2025), Low Accretion Rates in Black Holes in Late-stage Merger Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies, The Astrophysical Journal, 988, 17.
  5. Zhu, Y., Rieke, M. J., Ji, Z., including Sun, Y., et al. (2025), A Systematic Search for Galaxies with Extended Emission Lines and Potential Outflows in JADES Medium-band Images, The Astrophysical Journal, 986, 162.
  6. Zhu, Y., Alberts, S., Lyu, J., including Sun, Y., et al. (2025), SMILES: Potentially Higher Ionizing Photon Production Efficiency in Overdense Regions, The Astrophysical Journal, 986, 18.
  7. Lin, X., Fan, X., Sun, F., including Sun, Y., et al. (2025), The Large-scale Environments of Low-luminosity AGNs at $3.9 < z < 6$ and Implications for Their Host Dark Matter Halos from a Complete NIRCam Grism Redshift Survey, arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2505.02896.
  8. Zhang, J., Egami, E., Sun, F.,including Sun, Y., et al. (2025), Abundant Population of Broad H$α$ Emitters in the GOODS-N Field Revealed by CONGRESS, FRESCO, and JADES, arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2505.02895.
  9. Lin, X., Egami, E., Sun, F., including Sun, Y., et al. (2025), The Luminosity Function and Clustering of H$α$ Emitting Galaxies at $z\approx4-6$ from a Complete NIRCam Grism Redshift Survey, arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2504.08028.
  10. Zhu, Y., Rieke, M. J., Ho, L. C., including Sun, Y., et al. (2025), Nuclear Winds Drive Cold Gas Outflows on Kiloparsec Scales in Reionization-Era Quasars, arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2504.02305.
  11. D’Eugenio, F., Hainline, K., Arribas, S., including Sun, Y., et al. (2025), Forever Blowing Bubbles: What Powers a 24-kpc Ionized Gas Nebula Around a Normal Galaxy at z=6?, JWST Proposal. Cycle 4, 7335.
  12. Scholtz, J., Parlanti, E., Carniani, S., including Sun, Y., et al. (2025), Tentative rotation in a galaxy at z$\sim$14 with ALMA, arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2503.10751.
  13. Hainline, K. N., Maiolino, R., Juodžbalis, I., including Sun, Y., et al. (2025), An Investigation into the Selection and Colors of Little Red Dots and Active Galactic Nuclei, The Astrophysical Journal, 979, 138.
  14. Alberts, S., Lyu, J., Shivaei, I., including Sun, Y., et al. (2024), SMILES Initial Data Release: Unveiling the Obscured Universe with MIRI Multiband Imaging, The Astrophysical Journal, 976, 224.
  15. Rinaldi, P., Bonaventura, N., Rieke, G. H., including Sun, Y., et al. (2024), Not Just a Dot: the complex UV morphology and underlying properties of Little Red Dots, arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2411.14383.
  16. Zhu, Y., Bakx, T. J. L. C., Ikeda, R., including Sun, Y., et al. (2024), Discovery of a Unique Close Quasar–DSFG Pair Linked by a [C II] Bridge at z = 5.63, Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, 8, 284.
  17. Alberts, S., Williams, C. C., Helton, J. M., including Sun, Y., et al. (2024), To High Redshift and Low Mass: Exploring the Emergence of Quenched Galaxies and Their Environments at 3 < z < 6 in the Ultra-deep JADES MIRI F770W Parallel, The Astrophysical Journal, 975, 85.
  18. Shivaei, I., Alberts, S., Florian, M., including Sun, Y., et al. (2024), A new census of dust and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at z = 0.7–2 with JWST MIRI, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 690, A89.
  19. Ji, Z., Williams, C. C., Rieke, G. H., including Sun, Y., et al. (2024), Extended hot dust emission around the earliest massive quiescent galaxy, arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2409.17233.
  20. Wevers, T., Coughlin, E. R., Pasham, D. R.,including Sun, Y., et al. (2023), Live to Die Another Day: The Rebrightening of AT 2018fyk as a Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Event, The Astrophysical Journal, 942, L33.