Renbin Yan

Current Position

Associate Professor,

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Kentucky

Contact Information

Email: yanrenbin_at_gmail.com
Mailing Address:: Renbin Yan; Department of Physics and Astronomy; University of Kentucky; 505 Rose Street; Lexington, KY 40506-0055; USA

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

Spectroscopic Instrumentation

Galaxy formation and evolution

Interstellar Medium

Stellar Population Modeling

Stellar Spectral Library

Active Galactic Nuclei

Cosmology

Multiwavelength studies of galaxies

Tools for automated data reduction and analysis

Selected Publications

Xihan Ji & Renbin Yan, "Constraining photoionization models with a reprojected optical diagnostic diagram", 2020, MNRAS, 499, 5749. (ADS link)
Renbin Yan et al., "SDSS-IV MaStar: A Large and Comprehensive Empirical Stellar Spectral Library—First Release", 2019, Astrophys. J., 883, 175. (ADS link)
Renbin Yan, "Shocks or photoionization: direct temperature measurements of the low-ionization gas in quiescent galaxies", 2018, MNRAS, 481, 476. (ADS link)
Renbin Yan, "Nitrogen-to-Oxygen abundance ratio variation in quiescent galaxies", 2018, MNRAS, 481, 467. (ADS link)
Renbin Yan et al. "SDSS-IV MaNGA IFS Galaxy Survey -- Survey Design, Execution, and Initial Data Quality", 2016, Astron. J., 152, 197. (ADS link)
Renbin Yan et al. "SDSS-IV/MaNGA: Spectrophotometric Calibration Technique", 2016, Astron. J., 151, 8. (ADS link)
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)