Binary Quasars at High Redshift I: 24 New Quasar Pairs at z ~ 3-4 (2009)
Hennawi, Joseph F., Myers, Adam D., Shen, Yue, Strauss, Michael A., Djorgovski, S. G., Fan, Xiaohui, ...
The clustering of quasars on small scales yields fundamental constraints on models of quasar evolution and the buildup of supermassive black holes. This paper describes the first systematic survey to...
Binary Quasars at High Redshift II: Sub-Mpc Clustering at z ~ 3-4 (2009)
Shen, Yue, Hennawi, Joseph F., Shankar, Francesco, Myers, Adam D., Strauss, Michael A., Djorgovski, S. G., ...
We present measurements of the small-scale (0.1
Liu, Xin, Shen, Yue, Strauss, Michael A., Greene, Jenny E.
We present a sample of 167 type 2 AGNs with double-peaked [O III]4959,5007 narrow emission lines, selected from the seventh data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The double-peaked profiles...
Synthesis and morphology evolution of GaN/C nanocables (2009)
Du, Xuefeng, Zhu, Yingchun, Yang, Tao, Shen, Yue, Zeng, Yi, Xu, Fangfang
GaN/C nanocables were synthesized via a thermochemical process. The GaN/C nanocables were composed of single crystalline GaN nanowire cores with a mean diameter of 80Â nm and parallel carbon...
High-Redshift SDSS Quasars with Weak Emission Lines (2009)
Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Fan, Xiaohui, Brandt, W. N., Shemmer, Ohad, Strauss, Michael A., Anderson, Scott F., ...
We identify a sample of 74 high-redshift quasars (z>3) with weak emission lines from the Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and present infrared, optical, and radio observations of a...
(Abridged) We present a simple framework for the growth and evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the hierarchical structure formation paradigm. In our model, black hole accretion is...
Clustering of Low-Redshift (z (2009)
Ross, Nicholas P., Shen, Yue, Strauss, Michael A., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Connolly, Andrew J., Richards, Gordon T., ...
We present measurements of the quasar two-point correlation function, \xi_{Q}, over the redshift range z=0.3-2.2 based upon data from the SDSS. Using a homogeneous sample of 30,239 quasars with...
Modeling Porous Dust Grains with Ballistic Aggregates. II. Light Scattering Properties (2009)
Shen, Yue, Draine, B. T., Johnson, Eric T.
We study the light scattering properties of random ballistic aggregates constructed in Shen et al. (Paper I). Using the discrete-dipole-approximation, we compute the scattering phase function and...
Quasar Clustering from SDSS DR5: Dependences on Physical Properties (2008)
Shen, Yue, Strauss, Michael A., Ross, Nicholas P., Hall, Patrick B., Lin, Yen-Ting, Richards, Gordon T., ...
Using a homogenous sample of 38,208 quasars with a sky coverage of $4000 {\rm deg^2}$ drawn from the SDSS Data Release Five quasar catalog, we study the dependence of quasar clustering on luminosity,...
A Catalog of Broad Absorption Line Quasars in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5 (2008)
Gibson, Robert R., Jiang, Linhua, Brandt, W. N., Hall, Patrick B., Shen, Yue, Wu, Jianfeng, ...
We present a catalog of 5039 broad absorption line (BAL) quasars (QSOs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5) QSO catalog that have absorption troughs covering a continuous...
Zhao-Wen Zong, Tian-Min Cheng, Yong-Ping Su, Xin-Ze Ran, Yue Shen, Nan Li, ...
Zong, Z-W., Cheng, T-M., Su, Y-P., Ran, X-Z., Shen, Y., Li, N., Ai, G-P., Dong, S-W. and Xu, H. Recruitment of Transplanted Dermal Multipotent stem Cells to the Sites of Injury in Rats with Combined...
Stability of Distant Satellites of Giant Planets in the Solar System (2008)
We conduct a systematic survey of the regions in which distant satellites can orbit stably around the four giant planets in the solar system, using orbital integrations of up to $10^9$ yr. In...
On the Eccentricity Distribution of Exoplanets from Radial Velocity Surveys (2008)
We investigate the estimation of orbital parameters by least-$\chi^2$ Keplerian fits to radial velocity (RV) data using synthetic data sets. We find that while the fitted period is fairly accurate,...
Modeling Porous Dust Grains with Ballistic Aggregates I: Geometry and Optical Properties (2008)
Shen, Yue, Draine, B. T., Johnson, Eric T.
We investigate the scattering and absorption of light by random ballistic aggregates of spherical monomers. We present a general measure for the porosity of an irregular particle. Three different...
Space density of optically-selected type 2 quasars (2008)
Reyes, Reinabelle, Zakamska, Nadia L., Strauss, Michael A., Green, Joshua, Krolik, Julian H., Shen, Yue, ...
Type 2 quasars are luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN) whose central regions are obscured by large amounts of gas and dust. In this paper, we present a catalog of type 2 quasars from the Sloan...
Do broad absorption line quasars live in different environments from ordinary quasars? (2007)
Shen, Yue, Strauss, Michael A., Hall, Patrick B., Schneider, Donald P., York, Donald G., Bahcall, Neta A.
We select a sample of $\sim 4200$ traditionally defined broad absorption line quasars (BALQs) from the Fifth Data Release quasar catalog of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. For a statistically...
Biases in Virial Black Hole Masses: An SDSS Perspective (2007)
Shen, Yue, Greene, Jenny E., Strauss, Michael A., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P.
We compile black hole (BH) masses for $\sim 60,000$ quasars in the redshift range $0.1 \lesssim z \lesssim 4.5$ included in the Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), using virial...
Clustering of high-redshift (z >= 2.9) quasars from the sloan digital sky survey (2007)
Shen, Yue, Strauss, Michael A., Oguri, Masamune, Hennawi, Joseph F., Fan, Xiaohui, Richards, Gordon T., ...
We study the two-point correlation function of a uniformly selected sample of 4426 luminous optical quasars with redshift 2:9 z 5:4 selected over 4041 deg2 from the Fifth Data Release of the Sloan...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog IV. Fifth Data Release (2007)
Schneider, Donald P., Hall, Patrick B., Richards, Gordon T., Strauss, Michael A., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Anderson, Scott F., ...
We present the fourth edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog contains 77,429 objects; this is an increase of over 30,000 entries since the previous edition. The...
Clustering of High Redshift ($z\ge 2.9$) Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Shen, Yue, Strauss, Michael A., Oguri, Masamune, Hennawi, Joseph F., Fan, Xiaohui, Richards, Gordon T., ...
(Abridged) We study the two-point correlation function of a uniformly selected sample of 4,426 luminous optical quasars with redshift $2.9 \le z\le 5.4$ selected over 4041 deg$^2$ from the Fifth Data...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog. IV. Fifth Data Release (2007)
Schneider, Donald P., Hall, Patrick B., Richards, Gordon T., Strauss, Michael A., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., Anderson, Scott F., ...
We present the fourth edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog contains 77,429 objects; this is an increase of over 30,000 entries since the previous edition. The...
Differences in the AGN Populations of Groups and Clusters: Clues to AGN Evolution (2006)
Shen, Yue, Mulchaey, John S., Raychaudhury, Somak, Rasmussen, Jesper, Ponman, Trevor J.
We combine optical and X-ray data for eight low redshift ($z\sim 0.06$) poor groups of galaxies from the {\it XI}({\it XMM/IMACS}) Groups Project to study the AGN population in the group environment....
Three Dimensional Compressible Hydrodynamic Simulations of Vortices in Disks (2006)
Shen, Yue, Stone, James M., Gardiner, Thomas A.
We carry out three-dimensional, high resolution (up to $1024^2\times 256$) hydrodynamic simulations of the evolution of vortices in vertically unstratified Keplerian disks using the shearing sheet...
Dispersal of Gaseous Circumstellar Discs around High-Mass Stars (2006)
We study the dispersal of a gaseous disc surrounding a central high-mass stellar core once this circumstellar disc becomes fully ionized. If the stellar and surrounding EUV and X-ray radiations are...
Forming supermassive black holes by accreting dark and baryon matter (2005)
Hu, Jian, Shen, Yue, Lou, Yu-Qing, Zhang, Shuangnan
Given a large-scale mixture of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) particles and baryon matter distributed in the early Universe, we advance here a two-phase accretion scenario for forming...
Structures in a class of magnetized scale-free discs (2004)
Shen, Yue, Liu, Xin, Lou, Yu-Qing
We construct analytically stationary global configurations for both aligned and logarithmic spiral coplanar magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) perturbations in an axisymmetric background MHD disc with a...
Outflows and inflows in astrophysical systems (2004)
We seek for self-similar solutions describing the time-dependent evolution of self-gravity systems with either spherical symmetry or axisymmetric disk geometry. By assuming self-similar variable...
Shocked similarity collapses and flows in star formation processes (2004)
We propose self-similar shocked flow models for certain dynamical evolution phases of young stellar objects (YSOs), `champagne flows' of H {\sevenrm II} regions surrounding OB stars and shaping...
Gravitationally coupled scale-free discs (2004)
In a composite fluid system of two gravitationally coupled barotropic scale-free discs bearing a rotation curve $v\propto r^{-\beta}$ and a power-law surface mass density $\Sigma_0\propto...
In a composite system of gravitationally coupled stellar and gaseous discs, we perform linear stability analysis for axisymmetric coplanar perturbations using the two-fluid formalism. The background...
Degree granted in Biomedical Engineering.
Envelope Expansion with Core Collapse. I. Spherical Isothermal Similarity Solutions (2003)
We investigate self-similar dynamical processes in an isothermal self-gravitational fluid with spherical symmetry. In reference to earlier complementary solution results of Larson, Penston, Shu,...
Theoretical study on RbCl crystal with M\"{o}bius inverse potentials (2003)
Shen, Yue, Zhang, Shuo, Chen, Nan-xian
The alkali halides have been studied very frequently for their simple structures and interesting properties, for example, the high-pressure induced transition$^1$. There are several successful models...
Axisymmetric stability criterion for two gravitationally coupled singular isothermal discs (2003)
Using the two-fluid formalism with the polytropic approximation, we examine the axisymmetric stability criterion for a composite system of gravitationally coupled stellar and gaseous singular...
Perturbation configurations in a two-fluid system of singular isothermal disks (2003)
We investigate properties of stationary aligned and unaligned spiral perturbation configurations in a composite system of gravitationally coupled stellar and gaseous singular isothermal disks (SIDs)...
Using sensory analysis to measure oral heat in spicy snacks /--by Yue (Sally) Shen. (2000)
Thesis (M.S.)--Kansas State University, 2000.
Instructional multimedia :--from theory to practice /--by Ue Shen. (1997)
Thesis (M.S.)--St. Cloud State University, 1997.
Chirally Extended Quantum Chromodynamics (1994)
Brower, Richard C., Shen, Yue, Tan, Chung-I
We propose an extended Quantum Chromodynamics (XQCD) Lagrangian in which the fermions are coupled to elementary scalar %$\sigma$ and $\pi$ fields through a Yukawa coupling which preserves chiral...
Isgur-Wise Function on the Lattice (1993)
Bernard, Claude W., Shen, Yue, Soni, Amarjit
We review our method and numerical results for calculation of the Isgur-Wise function on the lattice. We present a discussion of the systematic errors. Using recent experimental results, we find...
Fluctuation Induced First Order Phase Transitions (1993)
We study a $U(N)\times U(N)$ symmetric scalar field model in four and three dimensions. First, using our data in four dimensions in the weak coupling region, we demonstrate explicitly that the...
The Coleman-Weinberg Mechanism and First Order Phase Transitions (1993)
Revised and reduced the size of the text. Removed figure 2 in previous text. So, old figure 3 and 4 become new figure 2 and 3, respectively. Added figure 4 for first order phase transition...
Does the 2d Higgs-Yukawa Model Have a Symmetric Phase at Small Yukawa Coupling Region? (1993)
We show that at arbitrary value of the scalar self coupling and small Yukawa coupling $y$ the 2d Higgs-Yukawa model with Z(2) symmetry remains in the broken phase and the model is asymptotically...
Calculating the Isgur-Wise Function on the Lattice (1992)
Bernard, Claude, Shen, Yue, Soni, Amarjit
We calculate the Isgur-Wise function by measuring the heavy-heavy meson transition matrix element on the lattice. The standard Wilson action is used for both the heavy and light quarks. Our first...
A Study of the $N=2$ Kazakov-Migdal Model (1992)
Aoki, Sinya, Gocksch, Andreas, Shen, Yue
We study numerically the SU(2) Kazakov-Migdal model of `induced QCD'. In contrast to our earlier work on the subject we have chosen here {\it not} to integrate out the gauge fields but to keep them...
The Phase Diagram of the $N=2$ Kazakov-Migdal Model (1992)
We have determined the phase diagram of the simplest version of a lattice model introduced in the recent work of Kazakov and Migdal. If $m_0$ and $\lambda$ are the bare mass and self coupling of the...
Tunneling and Energy Splitting in Ising Models (1992)
The energy splitting $E_{0a}$ in two and four dimensional Ising models is measured in a cylindrical geometry on finite lattices. By comparing to exact results in the two dimensional Ising model we...