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Dong Lai

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Cornell University

United States

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Professor Dong Lai is a faculty member at Cornell University in the United States. His research encompasses astrophysical phenomena, particularly focusing on binary stars, black holes, and the implications of stellar interactions. Recent publications highlight his work on stellar obliquity excitation, the equation of state of quark matter, and the dynamics of planets in varying astrophysical contexts.

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Zhen Pan

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Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Jie Zhang

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Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Fabo Feng

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Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Engulfment of Eccentric Planets by Giant Stars: Hydrodynamics and Light Curves

A Formation Crisis of Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Events

Efficiency of Tidal Dissipation in Convective Flow Under Rapid Tidal Forcing

Transiting Planetary Systems with Distant Giant Companions Remain Moderately Coplanar

Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers in Nuclear Star Clusters: A Combined Dynamical-secular Channel for GW231123-like Events

Impact of Resonant Compton Scattering on Magnetar X-Ray Polarization with Quantum Electrodynamics Vacuum Resonance

Resonance Capture of a Test Particle by an Eccentric Planet in the Presence of Externally Driven Apsidal Precession

Planetary Desert around Compact Binaries: Dynamical Instability Triggered by Resonance-induced Eccentricity Excitation

Impact of Cold Jupiter Scattering on the Mean-motion Resonance of Inner Small Planets

Simulations of a Conducting Sphere Moving through Magnetized Plasma: Alfvén Wings, Slow Magnetosonic Wings, and Drag Force

Free-floating Planets Produced by Planet–Planet Scatterings: Ejection Velocity and Survival Rate of Their Moons

Limiting Eccentricity in Restricted Hierarchical Three-body Systems with Short-range Forces

Spin and Obliquity Distributions of Low-mass Planets Shaped by Dynamical Instability

Stellar Obliquity Excitation via Disk-dispersal-driven Resonances in Binaries

Equation of State of Decompressed Quark Matter, and Observational Signatures of Quark-Star Mergers

A Binary Origin for Ultralong-period Radio Pulsars

Metal Pollution in Sun-like Stars from Destruction of Ultra–short-period Planets

Magnetically Driven Retrograde Precession in Misaligned Black Hole Accretion Flows

Binary Stars Approaching Supermassive Black Holes: Hydrodynamics of Stellar Collisions, Mass Fallback, and Partial Tidal Disruption Events

Free-floating Planets, Survivor Planets, Captured Planets, and Binary Planets from Stellar Flybys

Extreme Resonant Eccentricity Excitation of Stars around Merging Black-Hole Binary

Mass Ejection Driven by Sudden Energy Deposition in Stellar Envelopes

Formation of Merging Stellar-mass Black Hole Binaries by Gravitational-wave Emission in Active Galactic Nucleus Disks

Dynamical Friction Models for Black Hole Binary Formation in Active Galactic Nucleus Disks

Potential Melting of Extrasolar Planets by Tidal Dissipation

Binary Stars Approaching Supermassive Black Holes: Tidal Breakup, Double Stellar Disruptions, and Stellar Collision

Migration of Accreting Planets and Black Holes in Disks

Giant Planet Engulfment by Evolved Giant Stars: Light Curves, Asteroseismology, and Survivability

Wide-binary Stars Formed in the Turbulent Interstellar Medium

IXPE detection of polarized X-rays from magnetars and photon mode conversion at QED vacuum resonance

High-eccentricity Migration with Disk-induced Spin–Orbit Misalignment: A Preference for Perpendicular Hot Jupiters

Hydrodynamical Simulations of Black Hole Binary Formation in AGN Disks

On the Role of Dynamical Cooling in the Dynamics of Circumbinary Disks

Resonant Excitation of Planetary Eccentricity due to a Dispersing Eccentric Protoplanetary Disk: A New Mechanism of Generating Large Planetary Eccentricities

Long-term Evolution of Tightly Packed Stellar Black Holes in AGN Disks: Formation of Merging Black Hole Binaries via Close Encounters

Dynamical Tidal Love Numbers of Rapidly Rotating Planets and Stars

Probing the Spins of Supermassive Black Holes with Gravitational Waves from Surrounding Compact Binaries

Constraining Saturn’s Interior with Ring Seismology: Effects of Differential Rotation and Stable Stratification

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Jie Zhang

Fabo Feng

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