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Hey! I'm Yubo, and I'm a Lyman Spitzer Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University. I obtained my PhD at Cornell University where I was advised by Dong Lai, where I was supported by the NASA Future Investigators in Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) award.

• CV

• Email: yubosu@princeton.edu

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/yubosu/

• https://github.com/yubo56

A full list of my papers can be found here. 

First and Second Author Papers

1. Su Y. & Lai D. (in prep). Thermodynamic Evolution of Compact White Dwarf Binaries.

2. Su Y. & Lai D. (2021). Non-Trivial Oblique Spin Equilibria of Super-Earths in Multi-planetary Systems. Submitted, arXiv .

3. Su Y. & Lai D. (2021). Dynamical Tides in Eccentric Binaries Containing Massive Main-Sequence Stars: Analytical Expressions. Publisher (MNRAS) , arXiv.

4. Su, Y., & Lai, D. (2021). Dynamics of Colombo’s top: tidal dissipation and resonance capture, with applications to oblique super-Earths, ultra-short-period planets and inspiraling hot Jupiters. MNRAS, 509(3), 3301-3320. Publisher (MNRAS). arXiv

5. Su, Y., Liu, B., & Lai, D. (2021). The Mass Ratio Distribution of Tertiary Induced Binary Black Hole Mergers. MNRAS, 505 (3), 3681-3697. Publisher (MNRAS)  arXiv 

6. Rodet, L., Su, Y. &, & Lai, D. (2021). On the Correlation between Hot Jupiters and Stellar Clustering: High-Eccentricity Migration Induced by Stellar Flybys. ApJ 913 (2), 104. Publisher (ApJ)  arXiv 

7. Su, Y., Lai, D., & Liu, B. (2020). Spin-Orbit Misalignments in Tertiary-Induced Black-Hole Binary Mergers: Theoretical Analysis. Phys. Rev. D 103 (6), 063040. Publisher (Phys Rev D)  arXiv 

8. Su, Y., & Lai, D. (2020). Dynamics of Colombo’s Top: Generating Exoplanet Obliquities from Planet–Disk Interactions. ApJ, 903(1), 7. Publisher (ApJ) arXiv

9. Su, Y., Lecoanet, D., & Lai, D. (2020). Physics of tidal dissipation in early-type stars and white dwarfs: hydrodynamical simulations of internal gravity wave breaking in stellar envelopes. MNRAS, 495(1), 1239-1251. Publisher (MNRAS) arXiv

Other Papers

1. H.W.W. Spoon, … Y. Su, & V. Viola (2021). The Infrared Database of Extragalactic Observables from Spitzer. – II. The Database & The Diagnostic Power of Crystalline Silicate Features in Galaxy Spectra. ApJS, Submitted.

2. Dong, J., ... & Su, Y. (2021). Glass phenomenology in the hard matrix model. J. Stat. Mech., 093302. Publisher (J. Stat. Mech.)  arXiv 

Talks

• [Cornell B Exam / Thesis Defense] Dynamics of Planets, Stars, and Black Hole Binaries: Tides, Spin Resonances, and Gravitational Waves . video (May 19, 2022)

• Spin-Orbit Misalignments in Tertiary-Induced Black-Hole Binary Mergers: Theoretical Analysis.  video (May 18, 2021)

• A Preference For Small Mass Ratios in the Comparable-Mass Tertiary-Induced Binary Black Hole Merger Channel. video (Mar 25, 2021)

• Dynamics of Colombo’s Top: Generating Exoplanet Obliquities from Planet-Disk Interactions. video (Aug 7, 2020)

Advising

• Jupiter Ding, Princeton undergraduate, class of 2024: Onset of chaotic spin dynamics in tightly-packed multiplanetary sysetems (junior paper & senior thesis)

• Henry Yuan, Princeton undergraduate, class of 2023: Spin dynamics of triaxial exoplanets using REBOUNDx (senior thesis)

• Stephon Qian, Cornell undergraduate, class of 2024: Dynamics of Colombo's Top, a nonlinear, first-order, scalar ODE model for the onset of second and higher-order spin-orbit resonances

Media

• Video of internal gravity wave breaking in stellar envelope: video

  • Supplemental video to Physics of tidal dissipation in early-type stars and white dwarfs: hydrodynamical simulations of internal gravity wave breaking in stellar envelopes