YUN WANG
Publications



papers in refereed journals: 69

conference proceedings: 11

barred-spiral galaxy NGC 4314

Refereed Journals:

  1. R. Holman and Yun Wang,
    Goldstones to Gravitons: A New Gravity Wave Production Mechanism,
    Phys. Rev. D40(1989)3204
  2. R. Holman, E.W. Kolb, S. L. Vadas, Y. Wang, E. J. Weinberg,
    False Vacuum Decay in Jordan-Brans-Dicke Cosmologies,
    Phys. Lett. 237B(1990)37
  3. R. Holman, E.W. Kolb, and Yun Wang,
    Gravitational Couplings of the Inflaton in Extended Inflation,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 65(1990)17
  4. Yun Wang,
    Higher Order Curvature Terms and Extended Inflation,
    Phys. Rev. D42(1990)2541
  5. R. Holman, E.W. Kolb, S.L. Vadas, and Y. Wang,
    False-Vacuum Decay in Generalized Extended Inflation,
    Phys. Lett. B250(1990)24
  6. R. Holman, E. W. Kolb, S. L. Vadas, and Y. Wang,
    Extended Inflation from Higher Order Dimensional Theories,
    Phys. Rev. D43(1991)995
  7. R. Holman, E. W. Kolb, S. L. Vadas, and Y. Wang,
    Scale-Invariant Extended Inflation,
    Phys. Rev. D43(1991)3833
  8. Yun Wang,
    Constraints on Generalized Extended Inflationary Models,
    Phys. Rev. D44(1991)991
  9. R. Holman, E.W. Kolb, S.L. Vadas, and Y. Wang,
    Plausible Double Inflation,
    Phys. Lett. B269(1991)252
  10. E.W. Kolb and Y. Wang,
    Domain Wall Formation in Late-Time Phase Transitions,
    Phys. Rev. D45(1992)4421
  11. J.N. Fry and Yun Wang,
    Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies from Plausible Double Inflation,
    Phys. Rev. D46(1992)3318
  12. Manuel Masip and Yun Wang,
    Baryogenesis in a Supersymmetric Model With $Z_3$ Matter Parity,
    Phys. Rev. D48(1993)1555
  13. Yun Wang,
    Mass and Radius of Cosmic Balloons,
    Phys. Rev. D49(1994)5063
  14. Pierre Sikivie, D.B. Tanner, and Yun Wang,
    Axion Detection in the $10^{-4}$eV Mass Range,
    Phys. Rev. D50(1994)4744
  15. Yun Wang,
    Polynomial Hybrid Inflation,
    Phys. Rev. D50 (1994)6135
  16. Pierre Sikivie, Igor Tkachev, and Yun Wang,
    The Velocity Peaks in the Cold Dark Matter Spectrum on Earth,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 75(1995)2911
  17. Yun Wang,
    Simple Analytical Methods for Computing the Gravity-Wave Contribution to the Cosmic Background Radiation Anisotropy,
    Phys. Rev. D53(1996)639, astro-ph/9501116
  18. Yun Wang and Edwin L. Turner,
    Statistics of Extreme Gravitational Lensing Events. I. The Zero Shear Case,
    Astrophys. J. 464, 114(1996), astro-ph/9509042
  19. Michael S. Turner and Yun Wang,
    A Fast and Accurate Algorithm for Computing Tensor CBR Anisotropy,
    Phys. Rev. D53, 5727 (1996), astro-ph/9512140
  20. Yun Wang, Albert Stebbins, and Edwin L. Turner,
    Gravitational Lensing of Gravitational Waves from Merging Neutron Star Binaries,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 2875 (1996), astro-ph/9605140
  21. Yun Wang and Edwin L. Turner,
    The Cosmological Constant and Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors,
    Phys. Rev. D 56, 724 (1997), astro-ph/9603034
  22. Yun Wang and Edwin L. Turner,
    Statistics of Extreme Gravitational Lensing Events. II. The Small Shear Case,
    ApJ 482, 63 (1997), astro-ph/9607076
  23. Pierre Sikivie, Igor Tkachev, and Yun Wang,
    The secondary infall model of galactic halo formation and the spectrum of cold dark matter particles on Earth,
    Phys. Rev. D56, 1863 (1997), astro-ph/9609022.
  24. Tomislav Kundic (Th. Astroph., Caltech), Edwin L. Turner, Wesley N. Colley, J. Richard Gott, III, James E. Rhoads, Yun Wang (Princeton), Louis E. Bergeron, Karen A. Gloria, Daniel C. Long (Apache Point Observ.), Sangeeta Malhotra (IPAC), Joachim Wambsganss (Astroph. Inst., Potsdam),
    A Robust Determination of the Time Delay in 0957+561A,B and a Measurement of the Global Value of Hubble's Constant,
    ApJ 482, 75 (1997), astro-ph/9610162.
  25. Yun Wang and Edwin L. Turner,
    Caustics, Critical Curves and Cross Sections for Gravitational Lensing by Disk Galaxies,
    MNRAS, 292, 863 (1998), astro-ph/9702078.
  26. Yun Wang, David N. Spergel, and Edwin L. Turner,
    Implications of Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies for Large Scale Variations in Hubble's Constant,
    ApJ 498, 1 (1998), astro-ph/9708014.
  27. Yun Wang, Neta Bahcall, and Edwin L. Turner,
    A Catalog of Color-based Redshift Estimates for $z \la 4$ Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field,
    AJ 116, 2081 (1998), astro-ph/9804195.
  28. Yun Wang, David N. Spergel, and Michael Strauss,
    Cosmology in the Next Millennium: Combining MAP and SDSS Data to Constrain Inflationary Models,
    ApJ, 510, 20 (1999), astro-ph/9802231.
  29. Yun Wang,
    Analytical Modeling of the Weak Lensing of Standard Candles,
    ApJ 525, 651 (1999), astro-ph/9901212.
  30. Yun Wang,
    Self-lensing of a Singular Isothermal Sphere,
    Phys. Rev. D 61, 123002 (2000), astro-ph/9907020.
  31. Yun Wang,
    Supernova Pencil Beam Survey,
    ApJ 531, 676 (2000), astro-ph/9806185.
  32. Yun Wang,
    Flux-averaging Analysis of Type Ia Supernova Data,
    ApJ 536, 531 (2000), astro-ph/9907405.
  33. Yun Wang, & Peter Garnavich,
    Measuring Time-Dependence of Dark Energy Density from Type Ia Supernova Data,
    ApJ, 552, 445 (2001), astro-ph/0101040
  34. J.M. LoSecco, G.J. Mathews, and Yun Wang,
    Prospects for Constraining Cosmology with the Extragalactic Cosmic Microwave Background Temperature,
    Phys. Rev. D 64 (2001) 123002, astro-ph/0108260.
  35. K. A. Milton, R. Kantowski, C. Kao, Y. Wang,
    Constraints on extra dimensions from cosmological and terrestrial measurements, Mod. Phys. Lett. A, Vol. 16, No. 35 (2001) pp. 2281, hep-ph/0105250.
  36. Yun Wang, & Geoffrey Lovelace,
    Unbiased Estimate of Dark Energy Density from Type Ia Supernova Data, ApJ, 562, L115 (2001), astro-ph/0109233
  37. M. Orito, T. Kajino, G.J. Mathews, and Yun Wang,
    Constraints on Neutrino Degeneracy from the Cosmic Microwave Background and Primordial Nucleosynthesis, Phys. Rev. D 65, 123504 (2002), astro-ph/0203352
  38. Yun Wang, & Grant Mathews,
    A Measurement of the Primordial Power Spectrum from Maxima, Boomerang, and DASI Data,
    ApJ, 573, 1 (2002), astro-ph/0011351
  39. Yun Wang, Daniel E. Holz, and Dipak Munshi,
    A Universal Probability Distribution Function for Weak-lensing Amplification, ApJ, 572, L15-L18 (2002), astro-ph/0204169
  40. Dipak Munshi, and Yun Wang,
    How Sensitive Are Weak Lensing Statistics to Dark Energy Content?
    ApJ, 583, 566-574 (2003), astro-ph/0206483
  41. M. Viel, S. Matarrese, Tom Theuns, D. Munshi, and Yun Wang,
    Dark energy effects on the Lyman-alpha forest,
    MNRAS, 340, L47 (2003), astro-ph/0212241
  42. Pia Mukherjee, and Yun Wang,
    Wavelet Band Powers of the Primordial Power Spectrum from CMB Data,
    ApJ, 593, 38 (2003), astro-ph/0301058
  43. Pia Mukherjee, and Yun Wang,
    Direct Wavelet Expansion of the Primordial Power Spectrum,
    ApJ, 598, 779 (2003), astro-ph/0301562
  44. Yun Wang, Katherine Freese, Paolo Gondolo, Matthew Lewis,
    Future Type Ia Supernova Data as Tests of Dark Energy from Modified Friedmann Equations,
    ApJ, 594, 25-32 (2003), astro-ph/0302064
  45. Pia Mukherjee, and Yun Wang,
    Model-Independent Reconstruction of the Primordial Power Spectrum from WMAP Data,
    ApJ, 599, 1 (2003), astro-ph/0303211
  46. Dipak Munshi, Cristiano Porciani, Yun Wang,
    Galaxy Clustering and Dark Energy,
    MNRAS, 349, 281 (2004), astro-ph/0302510
  47. Yun Wang, Jason Tenbarge, and Bobby Fleshman,
    Reduced convergence and the local smoothness parameter: bridging two different descriptions of weak lensing amplification,
    ApJ 624, 46 (2005), astro-ph/0307415
  48. Yun Wang, and Pia Mukherjee
    Model-Independent Constraints on Dark Energy Density from Flux-averaging Analysis of Type Ia Supernova Data,
    ApJ, 606, 654 (2004), astro-ph/0312192
  49. Yun Wang, Veselin Kostov, Katherine Freese, Joshua A. Frieman, Paolo Gondolo
    Probing the Evolution of the Dark Energy Density with Future Supernova Surveys,
    JCAP, 12, 003 (2004), astro-ph/0402080
  50. Pia Mukherjee, and Yun Wang
    Wavelets and WMAP non-Gaussianity,
    ApJ, 613, 51 (2004), astro-ph/0402602
  51. Yun Wang, and Max Tegmark
    New dark energy constraints from supernovae, microwave background and galaxy clustering,
    Phys. Rev. Lett., 92, 241302 (2004), astro-ph/0403292
  52. Gang Chen, Pia Mukherjee, Tina Kahniashvili, Bharat Ratra, Yun Wang
    Looking for Cosmological Alfven Waves in WMAP Data,
    ApJ, 611, 655 (2004), astro-ph/0403695
  53. Yun Wang, Jan Michael Kratochvil, Andrei Linde, Marina Shmakova
    Current Observational Constraints on Cosmic Doomsday,
    JCAP, 12, 006 (2004), astro-ph/0409264
  54. Yun Wang
    Observational signatures of the weak lensing magnification of supernovae,
    JCAP, 03, 005 (2005), astro-ph/0406635
  55. Yun Wang, and Max Tegmark
    Uncorrelated Measurements of the Cosmic Expansion History and Dark Energy from Supernovae,
    Phys. Rev. D 71, 103513 (2005), astro-ph/0501351
  56. Pia Mukherjee, and Yun Wang
    Primordial Power Spectrum Reconstruction,
    JCAP, 12 (2005) 007, astro-ph/0502136
  57. Yun Wang, and Katherine Freese
    Probing Dark Energy Using Its Density Instead of Its Equation of State,
    Phys. Lett. B, 632, 449 (2006), astro-ph/0402208
  58. Yun Wang
    Dark Energy Constraints from Baryon Acoustic Oscillations,
    ApJ, 647, 1 (2006), astro-ph/0601163
  59. Yun Wang, and Pia Mukherjee
    Robust Dark Energy Constraints from Supernovae, Galaxy Clustering, and Three-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Observations,
    ApJ, 650, 1 (2006), astro-ph/0604051
  60. M.A. Troxel, David Branch, Peter Garnavich, E. Baron, David Jeffery, Wesley Ketchum, and Yun Wang,
    Signatures of Coadded Type Ia Supernova Spectra,
    submitted to ApJ (2006)
  61. Andrew R Liddle, Pia Mukherjee, David Parkinson, Yun Wang
    Present and future evidence for evolving dark energy, PRD, 74, 123506 (2006), astro-ph/0610126
  62. Yun Wang
    A Model-Independent Photometric Redshift Estimator for Type Ia Supernovae,
    ApJ, 654, L123 (2007), astro-ph/0609639
  63. Yun Wang, and Pia Mukherjee
    Observational Constraints on Dark Energy and Cosmic Curvature,
    PRD, 76, 103533 (2007), astro-ph/0703780
  64. Yun Wang, Gautham Narayan, Michael Wood-Vasey
    Survey Requirements for Accurate and Precise Photometric Redshifts for Type Ia Supernovae,
    MNRAS, 382, 377 (2007), arXiv:0708.0033 [astro-ph]
  65. Antonio De Felice, Pia Mukherjee, Yun Wang
    Observational Bounds on Modified Gravity Models,
    PRD, 77, 024017 (2008), arXiv:0706.1197 [astro-ph]
  66. Yun Wang
    Differentiating dark energy and modified gravity with galaxy redshift surveys,
    JCAP, accepted (2008), arXiv:0710.3885 [astro-ph]
  67. Yun Wang, and Nicholas Hall
    Improving the Calibration of Type Ia Supernovae Using Late-time Lightcurves,
    MNRAS, submitted (2007)), arXiv:0711.1560 [astro-ph]
  68. Pia Mukherjee, Martin Kunz, David Parkinson, Yun Wang
    Planck priors for dark energy surveys,
    PRD, submitted (2008)), arXiv:0803.1616 [astro-ph]
  69. Yun Wang
    Figure of Merit for Dark Energy Constraints from Curren t Observational Data
    PRD, submitted (2008)), arXiv:0803.4295 [astro-ph]

    Conference Proceedings:

    1. Yun Wang,
      Spectrum of Cold Dark Matter Signal,
      Proceedings of ``Unified Symmetry: In the Small and the Large II'' (Coral Gables, Feburary 1995), edited by B.N. Kursunoglu, S. Mintz, and A. Perlmutter.
    2. Yun Wang,
      The Statistics of Nearly On-Axis Gravitational Lensing Events,
      Proceedings of IAU Symposium 173:Astrophysical Applications of Gravitational Lensing (Melbourne, Australia, July 9-14, 1995), edited by C.S. Kochanek and J.N. Hewitt, astro-ph/9509044
    3. Yun Wang and Edwin L. Turner,
      Astrophysical Effects of Extreme Gravitational Lensing Events,
      in the Proceedings of the 18th Texas Symposium, World Scientific Press (editors A. Olinto, J. Frieman, and D. Schramm), astro-ph/9701230.
    4. Yun Wang, David N. Spergel, and Michael Strauss,
      Model-Independent Measurement of the Primordial Power Spectrum,
      in Particle Physics and the Early Universe (COSMO-98), editor David O. Caldwell (American Institute of Physics), 1999, astro-ph/9812291.
    5. Yun Wang, Neta Bahcall, and Edwin L. Turner,
      A Model-Independent Photometric Redshift Estimator,
      in the proceedings of the Workshop on Photometric Redshifts and High Redshift Galaxies, edited by Ray Weymann, et al. (Astronomical Society of the Pacific), 1999 astro-ph/9906256.
    6. P. M. Garnavich and Y. Wang,
      Properties of the Dark Energy,
      in the proceedings of ``New Cosmological Data and the Values of the Fundamental Parameters'', International Astronomical Union. Symposium no. 201, Manchester, England, August 2000.
    7. Yun Wang,
      Dark Energy Search with Supernovae,
      to appear in proceedings of the 6th UCLA Symposium on "Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe", Marina Del Ray, Feb 2004. [astro-ph/0404484]
    8. JEDI Collaboration,
      Joint Efficient Dark-energy Investigation (JEDI): a Candidate Implementation of the NASA-DOE Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM),
      JEDI white paper submitted to the Dark Energy Task Force (invited presentation during the DETF meeting on June 30, 2005). [astro-ph/0507043]
    9. JEDI Collaboration,
      Illuminating Dark Energy with the Joint Efficient Dark-energy Investigation (JEDI) (in SPIE proceedings, May 2006)
    10. JEDI Collaboration,
      The Joint Efficient Dark-energy Investigation (JEDI): Measuring the cosmic expansion history from type Ia supernovae (in SPIE proceedings, May 2006) [astro-ph/0606691]
    11. Yun Wang,
      Observational approaches to understanding dark energy, Invited review at the 23rd International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energy (LP07), arXiv:0712.0041