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Below are some representative publications of me and collaborators, separately listed based on the research topics:
Super Star Clusters:
Massimo Pascale, Liang Dai, Chris McKee, and Benny Tsang,
Nitrogen-enriched, highly-pressurized nebular clouds surrounding a super star cluster at Cosmic Noon
Astrophys.J.957 (2023) 77
Galaxy Cluster Lenses & Dark Matter:
Jose M. Diego, Massimo Pascale, Bradley J. Kavanagh, Patrick Kelly, Liang Dai, Brenda Frye, and Tom Broadhurst,
Godzilla, a monster lurks in the Sunburst galaxy,
A&A 665, A134 (2022)Liang Dai,
Statistical Microlensing Towards Magnified High-redshift Star Clusters,
MNRAS 501 (2021) 4, 5538-5553.Liang Dai, Alexander A. Kaurov, Keren Sharon, Michael K. Florian, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Brenda Frye, Jane R. Rigby, and Matthew Bayliss,
Asymmetric Surface Brightness Structure of Lensed Arc in SDSS J1226+2152: A Case for Dark Matter Substructure,
MNRAS 495 (3): 3192--3208 (2020).Liang Dai and Jordi Miralda-Escudé,
Gravitational Lensing Signatures of Axion Dark Matter Minihalos in Highly Magnified Stars,
Astron. J. 159 (2020) no.2, 49.Alexander Kaurov, Liang Dai, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, and Brenda Frye,
Highly Magnified Stars in Lensing Clusters: New Evidence in a Galaxy Lensed by MACS J0416.1-2403,
Astrophys. J. 880:58 (2019).
Liang Dai, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Alexander Kaurov, and Jordi Miralda-Escudé,
Probing Dark Matter Subhalos in Galaxy Clusters Using Highly Magnified Stars,
Astrophys. J. 867 (2018) no.1, 24.
Tejaswi Venumadhav, Liang Dai, and Jordi Miralda-Escudé,
Microlensing of Extremely Magnified Stars near Caustics of Galaxy Clusters,
Astrophys. J. 850 (2017) no.1, 49.
Galaxy Clusters:
Massimo Pascale, Brenda Frye, Liang Dai, and et al,
Possible Ongoing Merger Discovered by Photometry and Spectroscopy in the Field of the Galaxy Cluster PLCK G165.7+67.0
Astrophys. J. 932 (2022) 85.
Gravitational Waves and Data Analysis:
Nathaniel Leslie, Liang Dai, and Geraint Pratten,
Mode-by-mode relative binning: Fast likelihood estimation for gravitational waveforms with spin-orbit precession and multiple harmonics
Phys.Rev. D 104 (2021) 12, 123030Javier Roulet, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Barak Zackay, Liang Dai, and Matias Zaldarriaga,
Binary Black Hole Mergers from LIGO/Virgo O1 and O2: Population Inference Combining Confident and Marginal Events
Tejaswi Venumadhav, Barak Zackay, Javier Roulet, Liang Dai, and Matias Zaldarriaga,
New Binary Black Hole Mergers in the Second Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo,
Phys.Rev. D 101 (2020) 083030.
Javier Roulet, Liang Dai, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Barak Zackay, and Matias Zaldarriaga,
Template Bank for Compact Binary Coalescence Searches in Gravitational Wave Data: A General Geometric Placement Algorithm,
Phys. Rev. D 99 (2019) no.12, 123022.
Liang Dai, Shun-Sheng Li, Barak Zackay, Shude Mao, and Youjun Lu,
Detecting Lensing-Induced Diffraction in Astrophysical Gravitational Waves,
Phys. Rev. 98 (2018) 104029.
Liang Dai, Tejaswi Venumadhav and Kris Sigurdson,
The effect of lensing magnification on the apparent distribution of black hole mergers,
Phys. Rev. D 95 (2017) 044011.
Cosmic Microwave Background & Large-Scale Structure:
Winston Yin, Liang Dai, and Simone Ferraro,
Testing charge quantization with axion string-induced cosmic birefringence,
JCAP 07 (2023) 052.Winston Yin, Liang Dai, and Simone Ferraro,
Probing cosmic strings by reconstructing polarization rotation of the cosmic microwave background,
JCAP 06 (2022) 06 033.Liang Dai, Enrico Pajer, and Fabian Schmidt,
Conformal Fermi Coordinates,
JCAP 1511 (2015) 043.
Liang Dai, Enrico Pajer, and Fabian Schmidt,
On Separate Universes,
JCAP 1510 (2015) 059.
Jens Chluba, Liang Dai, Daniel Grin, Mustafa Amin and Marc Kamionkowski,
Spectral distortions from the dissipation of tensor perturbations,
Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 446 (2015) 2871.
Liang Dai,
Rotation of the cosmic microwave background polarization from weak gravitational lensing,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 041303 (2014).
Liang Dai, Marc Kamionkowski, and Junpu Wang,
Reheating constraints to inflationary models,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 041302 (2014).
Liang Dai and Jens Chluba,
An operator approach to the CMB aberrations kernels in harmonic space,
Phys. Rev. D 89, 123504 (2014).
Liang Dai, Donghui Jeong and Marc Kamionkowski,
Anisotropic imprint of long-wavelength tensor perturbations on cosmic structure,
Phys. Rev. D 88, 043507 (2013).
Liang Dai, Donghui Jeong and Marc Kamionkowski,
Seeking Inflation Fossils in the Cosmic Microwave Background,
Phys. Rev. D 87, 103006 (2013).
Liang Dai, Marc Kamionkowski and Donghui Jeong,
Total Angular Momentum Waves for Scalar, Vector, and Tensor Fields,
Phys. Rev. D 86, 125013 (2012).
Fast Radio Bursts:
Huangyu Xiao, Liang Dai and Matthew McQuinn,
Detecting cosmic strings with lensed fast radio bursts,
Phys.Rev.D 106 (2022) 10, 103033Liang Dai and Wenbin Lu,
Probing motion of fast radio burst sources by timing strongly lensed repeaters,
Astrophys. J. 847 (2017) no.1, 19.
Julian B. Muñoz, Ely D. Kovetz, Liang Dai and Marc Kamionkowski,
Lensing of Fast Radio Bursts as a Probe of Compact Dark Matter,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117 (2016) 091301.
Particle Physics:
Liang Dai, Kirill Melnikov, and Fabrizio Caola,
Tree amplitudes and color decomposition in broken SU(2),
JHEP 1204 095 (2012).