Renbin Yan

Update

I have accepted an Assitant Professor position at the University of Kentucky and will start in August this year. The Department of Physics & Astronomy at UKy is growing its astronomy group, with two new faculty hires this year, both in extragalactic astronomy. The other new faculty will be Dr. Dale Kocevski.

Current Position

Assistant Research Scientist,

Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics

New York University

Contact Information

Email: yanrenbin _at_ gmail.com
Address:: Renbin Yan; Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics; Department of Physics; 4 Washington Place; New York, NY 10003; USA

Research Interests

Galaxy formation and evolution; AGN identification and diagnostics;

AGN-host galaxy co-evolution; Interstellar medium; Post-starburst galaxies;

Large-scale structure and galaxy clusters; Multiwavelength studies of galaxies;

Tools for automated data reduction and analysis.

For details please see my CV.

Selected Publications

Renbin Yan & Michael R. Blanton, "The Nature of LINER-like Emission in Red Galaxies'', 2012, Astrophys. J., 747, 61. (ADS link)
Renbin Yan, "Precision Spectrophotometry at the Level of 0.1%'', 2011, Astron. J., 142, 153. (ADS link)
Renbin Yan et al., "AEGIS: Demographics of X-ray and Optically Selected Active Galactic Nuclei'', 2011, Astrophys. J., 728, 38. (ADS link)
Renbin Yan et al., "The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Environments of Poststarburst Galaxies at z~0.1 and z~0.8'', 2009, MNRAS, 398, 735.(ADS link)
Renbin Yan, Jeffrey A. Newman, S.M. Faber, Nicholas Konidaris, David Koo, Marc Davis, "On the Origin of [OII] Emission in Red Sequence and Post-starburst Galaxies'', 2006, Astrophys. J., 648, 281. (ADS link)
Renbin Yan, Martin White, Alison L. Coil, "Mock Catalogs for the DEEP2 Redshift Survey'', 2004, Astrophys. J., 607, 739. (ADS link)
Renbin Yan, Darren S. Madgwick, & Martin White, "Constraining Evolution in the Halo Model using Galaxy Redshift Surveys'', 2003, Astrophys. J., 598, 848. (ADS link)