Kuan Wang

About Me

Education: PhD student since 2015 at the University of Pittsburgh
      BS at the University of Science and Technology of China

Research Interests: Galaxy-halo connection, halo structure, cosmology

Publications: ADS search

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh. I work with Dr. Andrew Zentner, on the connection between galaxies and dark matter halos, and halo properties. I am planning to graduate in summer 2021.

My name written in Chinese is 王宽, with the family name coming first. I grew up in Wuhan, China, and went to college in Hefei, where I received my BS in Astronomy in 2015. My favorite things are food and poetry.

Research

I am mostly interested in galaxies and dark matter halos. I use numerical simulations to explore dark halo properties, spatial distributions of cosmological objects, and galaxy-halo connection models.

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Publication

How to optimally constrain galaxy assembly bias: supplement projected correlation functions with count-in-cells statistics
Kuan Wang, Yao-Yuan Mao, Andrew R. Zentner, Frank C. van den Bosch, Johannes U. Lange, Chad M. Schafer, Antonio S. Villarreal, Andrew P. Hearin, Duncan Campbell
Published article
ArXiv
Poster

Concentrations of Dark Haloes Emerge from Their Merger Histories
Kuan Wang, Yao-Yuan Mao, Andrew R. Zentner, Johannes U. Lange, Frank C. van den Bosch, Risa H. Wechsler
ArXiv

The immitigable nature of assembly bias: the impact of halo definition on assembly bias
Antonio S. Villarreal, Andrew R. Zentner, Yao-Yuan Mao, Chris W. Purcell, Frank C. van den Bosch, Benedikt Diemer, Johannes U. Lange, Kuan Wang, Duncan Campbell
Published article
ArXiv

Maturing satellite kinematics into a competitive probe of the galaxy-halo connection
Johannes U. Lange, Frank C. van den Bosch, Andrew R. Zentner, Kuan Wang, Antonio S. Villarreal
Published article
ArXiv

Updated results on the galaxy-halo connection from satellite kinematics in SDSS
Johannes U. Lange, Frank C. van den Bosch, Andrew R. Zentner, Kuan Wang, Antonio S. Villarreal
Published article
ArXiv

Cosmological Evidence Modelling: a new simulation-based approach to constrain cosmology on non-linear scales
Johannes U. Lange, Frank C. van den Bosch, Andrew R. Zentner, Kuan Wang, Andrew P. Hearin, Hong Guo
Published article
ArXiv

Contact

Email: kuw8@pitt.edu
     kuanwang.astro@gmail.com

Address: Department of Physics and Astronomy
      University of Pittsburgh
      3941 O'Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213