Selected Publications

Please find my publication lists with (Google scholar) and without (ADS) LIGO-Virgo publications in these online libraries, or click here for a PDF version. Below I sort a number of selected publications by science topics and collaborations.

Short author list:

Gravitational-wave standard sirens-

• Listening Across the Cosmic Time: Standard Sirens from Ground- and Space-Based Missions in the Next Decade
  Alberto Salvarese, Hsin-Yu Chen, Alberto Mangiagli, Nicola Tamanini, Classical and Quantum Gravity Focus Issue Invited Article, 42 195002,  arXiv:2506.24030

• Mitigating the binary viewing angle bias for standard siren
  Alberto Salvarese, Hsin-Yu Chen, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 974, L16, arXiv:2406.11126

• Cosmography with next-generation gravitational wave detectors
  Hsin-Yu Chen, Jose María Ezquiaga, Ish Gupta, Classical and Quantum Gravity Focus Issue Invited Article, 41 125004, arXiv:2402.03120

• Mitigating the counterpart selection effect for standard siren
  Hsin-Yu Chen, Colm Talbot, Eve A. Chase, Physical Review Letters, 132, 191003, arXiv:2307.10402

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Catalog Approach for Dark Siren Gravitational-wave Cosmology 

Gair et al. , The Astronomical Journal, 166, 22,  arXiv:2212.08694

• Impact of calibration uncertainties on Hubble constant measurements from gravitational-wave sources
  Yiwen Huang, Hsin-Yu Chen, Carl-Johan Haster, Ling Sun, Salvatore Vitale, Jeff Kissel, Physical Review D, 111, 063034, arXiv:2204.03614

• Cosmology intertwined: A review of the particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology associated with the cosmological tensions and anomalies

Abdalla et al. , Journal of High Energy Astrophysics, 34,49, arXiv:2203.06142

• A Standard Siren Cosmological Measurement from the Potential GW190521 Electromagnetic Counterpart ZTF19abanrhr

Hsin-Yu Chen, Carl-Johan Haster, Salvatore Vitale, Will M. Farr, Maximiliano Isi, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 513, 2, 2152, 2022, arXiv:2009.14057

• A Program for Multi-Messenger Standard Siren Cosmology in the Era of LIGO A+, Rubin Observatory, and Beyond

Hsin-Yu Chen, Philip S. Cowperthwaite, Brian D. Metzger, Edo Berger, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 908, L4, arXiv:2011.01211

• Systematic uncertainty of standard sirens from the viewing angle of binary neutron star inspirals

Hsin-Yu Chen, Physical Review Letters, 125, 201301,  arXiv:2006.02779

• Viewing angle of binary neutron star mergers

Hsin-Yu Chen, Salvatore Vitale, Ramesh Narayan,  Physical Review X, 9, 031028, arXiv: 1807.05226

• Measuring the Hubble constant with neutron star black hole mergers

Salvatore Vitale and Hsin-Yu Chen, Physical Review Letters, 121, 021303 (2018), arXiv: 1804.07337

• A 2 per cent Hubble constant measurement from standard sirens within 5 years

Hsin-Yu Chen, Maya Fishbach, Daniel E. Holz, Nature, 562, 545 (2018), arXiv: 1712.06531

Heavy elements from mergers and extreme matter in neutron stars-

• Mergers Fall Short: Non-merger Channels Required for Galactic Heavy Element Production
  Muhammed Saleem, Hsin-Yu Chen, Daniel M. Siegel, Philippe Landry, Jocelyn S. Read, Kaile Wang, arXiv: 2508.06020

• Inferring Neutron Star Nuclear Properties from Gravitational-Wave and Gamma-Ray Burst Observations
  Hsin-Yu Chen, Ore Gottlieb, arXiv: 2506.18151

• Inference of multi-channel r-process element enrichment in the Milky Way using binary neutron star merger observations
  Hsin-Yu Chen, Philippe Landry, Jocelyn S. Read, Daniel M. Siegel, The Astrophysical Journal, 985, 154, arXiv:2402.03696

• The relative contribution to heavy metals production from binary neutron star mergers and neutron star-black hole mergers

Hsin-Yu Chen, Salvatore Vitale, Francois Foucart, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 920, L3,  arXiv: 2107.02714

• Searching for exotic cores with binary neutron star inspirals

Hsin-Yu Chen, Paul M. Chesler, Abraham Loeb, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 893, 1, L4,  arXiv: 1909.04096

• Distinguishing binary neutron star from neutron star-black hole mergers with gravitational waves

Hsin-Yu Chen, Katerina Chatziioannou,  The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 893, 2, L41, arXiv: 1903.11197

Electromagnetic counterpart followup of gravitational-wave sources-

• The LIGO HET Response (LIGHETR) Project to Discover and Spectroscopically Follow Optical Transients Associated with Neutron Star Merger

Bustamante-Rosell et al., The Astrophysical Journal, 954, 102, arXiv:2306.15833

• An Infrared Search for Kilonovae with the WINTER Telescope. I. Binary Neutron Star Mergers 

Frostig et al., The Astrophysical Journal, 926, 2, 152, arXiv:2110.01622

• Finding the One: Identifying the Host Galaxies of Gravitational-Wave Sources 

Hsin-Yu Chen and Daniel E. Holz, arXiv: 1612.01471

• Observational Selection Effects with Ground-based Gravitational Wave Detectors

Hsin-Yu Chen, Reed Essick, Salvatore Vitale, Daniel E. Holz, Erik Katsavounidis, The Astrophysical Journal, 835, 1, 31, arXiv:1608.00164

• Going the Distance: Mapping Host Galaxies of LIGO Sources in Three Dimensions Using Local Cosmography and Targeted Follow-up 

L. P. Singer, H.-Y. Chen, D. E. Holz, W. M. Farr, L. R. Price, V. Raymond, S. B. Cenko, N. Gehrels, J. Cannizzo, M. M. Kasliwal, S. Nissanke, M. Coughlin, B. Farr, Alex L. Urban, S. Vitale, J. Veitch, P. Graff, C. P. L. Berry, S. Mohapatra, I. Mandel, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 829, 1, L15, arXiv:1603.07333

• Supplement: “Going the Distance: Mapping Host Galaxies of LIGO and Virgo Sources in Three Dimensions Using Local Cosmography and Targeted Follow-up” (2016, ApJL, 829, L15) 

L. P. Singer, H.-Y. Chen, D. E. Holz, W. M. Farr, L. R. Price, V. Raymond, S. B. Cenko, N. Gehrels, J. Cannizzo, M. M. Kasliwal, S. Nissanke, M. Coughlin, B. Farr, Alex L. Urban, S. Vitale, J. Veitch, P. Graff, C. P. L. Berry, S. Mohapatra, I. Mandel, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 226, 1, 10, arXiv:1605.04242

• Facilitating Follow-up of LIGO-Virgo Events Using Rapid Sky Localization 

Hsin-Yu Chen and Daniel E. Holz, The Astrophysical Journal, 840, 2, 88, arXiv:1509.00055

Populations of gravitational-wave sources-

• Identifying the hosts of binary black hole and neutron star-black hole mergers with next-generation gravitational-wave detector

Geoffrey Mo, Hsin-Yu Chen, arXiv: 2402.09684

• Prospects to Explore High-redshift Black Hole Formation with Multi-band Gravitational Waves Observatories

Hsin-Yu Chen, Angelo Ricarte, Fabio Pacucci, arXiv: 2202.04764

• Measuring the delay time distribution of binary neutron stars. II. Using the redshift distribution from third-generation gravitational wave detectors network

Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh, Edo Berger, Ken K. -Y. Ng, Hsin-Yu Chen, Salvatore Vitale, Chris Whittle, Evan Scannapieco, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 878, 1, L13,  arXiv: 1904.10976

• Distance measures in gravitational-wave astrophysics and cosmology 

Hsin-Yu Chen, Daniel E. Holz, John Miller, Matthew Evans, Salvatore Vitale, Jolien Creighton,  Classical and Quantum Gravity, 38, 055010, arXiv: 1709.08079

• The Effect of Pair-Instability Mass Loss on Black Hole Mergers 

K. Belczynski, A. Heger, W. Gladysz, A. J. Ruiter, S. Woosley, G. Wiktorowicz, H.-Y. Chen, T. Bulik, R. O’Shaughnessy, D. E. Holz, C. L. Fryer, and E. Berti, Astronomy&Astrophysics 594, A97, arXiv:1607.03116

• The Loudest Gravitational-Wave Events 

Hsin-Yu Chen and Daniel E. Holz, arXiv:1409.0522

• GRB beaming and gravitational-wave observations 

Hsin-Yu Chen and Daniel E. Holz, Physical Review Letters, 111, 181101, 2013, arXiv:1206.0703

Scientific collaborations:

LIGO Scientific Collaboration-

I have been a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration since September 2014 and a co-author of more than 100 LIGO-Virgo collaboration papers since 2015. Here I only list the papers that I directly contributed to.  

• Constraints on the cosmic expansion history from GWTC–3
  The Astronomical Journal, 949, 76,  arXiv:2111.03604

• Cosmological Inference using Gravitational Wave Standard Sirens: A Mock Data Challenge
  Gray et al., Physical Review D, 101, 122001, 2020

• Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA, Living Reviews in Relativity 21, 3, 2018

• A Gravitational-Wave Standard Siren Measurement of the Hubble Constant
  Nature, 551, 85

• Upper limits on the rates of binary neutron star and neutron-star-black-hole mergers from Advanced LIGO's first observing run
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 832, 2, L21, arXiv:1607.07456

• GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence
  Physical Review Letters, 116, 241103, 2016

• Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 826, L13, 2016

LISA Science Group-

I have served as a co-chair of the cosmology working package to guide the work to prepare for cosmological measurements based on LISA observations since 2019.

• LISA Definition Study Report
  Colpi et al., arXiv:2402.07571

• Cosmology with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
  Auclair et al., arXiv:2204.05434

• The Effect of Mission Duration on LISA Science Objectives
  Seoane et al., General Relativity and Gravitation, 54, 3, 2022, arXiv:2107.09665

Cosmic Explorer-

• Characterizing Gravitational Wave Detector Networks: From A♯ to Cosmic Explorer
  Gupta et al., arXiv:2307.10421

• Cosmic Explorer: A Submission to the NSF MPSAC ngGW Subcommittee
  Evans et al., arXiv:2306.13745

MUSES-

• Theoretical and Experimental Constraints for the Equation of State of Dense and Hot Matter
  Kumar et al., arXiv:2303.17021

Dark Energy Survey-Gravitational Waves Working Group-

I have been a member of the Dark Energy Survey-Gravitational Waves Working Group since 2014. We used the Dark Energy Camera to followup gravitational-wave detections, and have independently identified the optical counterpart of the binary neutron star merger GW170817, kilonova AT 2017gfo. 

• A Search for Kilonovae in the Dark Energy Survey

Z. Doctor, R. Kessler, H. Y. Chen, B. Farr, D. A. Finley, R. J. Foley, D. A. Goldstein, D. E. Holz, A. G. Kim, E. Morganson, et al., The Astrophysical Journal, 837, 1, 57,  arXiv: 1611.08052

• The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. I. Dark Energy Camera Discovery of the Optical Counterpart, Soares-Santos et al., The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 848, 2, L16, 2017, arXiv:1710.05459  

• A DECam Search for an Optical Counterpart to the LIGO Gravitational Wave Event GW151226, Cowperthwaite et al., The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 826, 2, L29, 2016, arXiv:1606.04538

• A Dark Energy Camera Search for Missing Supergiants in the LMC After the Advanced LIGO Gravitational Wave Event GW150914, Annis et al., The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 823, 2, L34, 2016, arXiv:1602.04199

• A Dark Energy Camera Search for an Optical Counterpart to the First Advanced LIGO Gravitational Wave Event GW150914, Soares-Santos et al., The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 823, 2, L33, 2016, arXiv:1602.04198