Yubo Su (Last updated: June 23, 2025)
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.
Email: yubosu@princeton.edu
A full list of my papers can be found here.
First and Second Author Papers
Su, Y., & Lai, D. (2024)., Stellar Obliquity Excitation via Disk Dispersal-Driven Resonances in Binaries. Submitted to ApJ. arXiv
*Yuan, H., Su, Y., & Goodman, J. (2024). Surprising spin-orbit resonances of oblate, rocky super-Earths. ApJ, arXiv
Sur, A., Su, Y., Arevalo, R. T., Chen, Y. X., & Burrows, A. (2024). APPLE: An Evolution Code for Modeling Giant Planets. ApJ, 971(1), 104. Publisher (ApJ) , arXiv
Arevalo, R. T., Su, Y., Sur, A., & Burrows, A. (2024). Equations of State, Thermodynamics, and Miscibility Curves for Jovian Planet and Giant Exoplanet Evolutionary Models. Publisher (ApJS) , arXiv
Su, Y., Liu, B., & Xu, S. (2024). Revisiting the Tertiary-induced Binary Black Hole Mergers: the Role of Superthermal Wide Tertiary Eccentricity Distributions. Publisher (ApJ), arXiv
Vick, M., Su, Y., & Lai, D. (2023). High-eccentricity Migration with Disk-induced Spin–Orbit Misalignment: A Preference for Perpendicular Hot Jupiters. Publisher (ApJL) , arXiv
Su, Y., & Lai, D. (2022). Dynamics of Colombo’s Top: non-trivial oblique spin equilibria of super-Earths in multiplanetary systems. Publisher (MNRAS) , arXiv.
Su Y. & Lai D. (2021). Dynamical Tides in Eccentric Binaries Containing Massive Main-Sequence Stars: Analytical Expressions. Publisher (MNRAS) , arXiv.
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
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
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
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
Su, Y., & Lai, D. (2020). Dynamics of Colombo’s Top: Generating Exoplanet Obliquities from Planet–Disk Interactions. ApJ, 903(1), 7. Publisher (ApJ) arXiv
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
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.
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