About
Jinyi Yang is an observational astronomer and primarily studies high-redshift AGN/quasar, supermassive black holes (SMBHs), BH host galaxies, and cosmic reionization. She was one of the leaders of a wide-field survey of the most distant quasars, which yielded the largest sample of luminous reionization-era quasars at z~ 6.5-7.6, including two of the only three quasars known at z>7.5. She led the optical and near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopic follow-up surveys of these luminous quasars with world-class telescopes (e.g., Keck, VLT, Magellan, Gemini, MMT, and LBT). She then led the study of early SMBH growth and intergalactic medium (IGM) evolution during the reionization epoch using these datasets.
Now she is focusing on using JWST and ALMA to conduct followup of z~7 luminous quasars and quasar fields, in synergy with multi-wavelength observations, including X-ray, optical, NIR, and Radio. She is PI/Co-PI of seven JWST Cycle 1-3 programs and is leading in-depth JWST followup of the largest luminous z~7 quasar sample. She is one of the first to use JWST to study reionization-era quasars' SMBH and host galaxy, and the IGM evolution. She is also working on quasar surveys using new generation facilities. She is the PI of a high-redshift quasar survey with DESI. She is a member of the Euclid Consortium, the LSST AGN Science Collaboration, and the Roman Cosmic Dawn Science Investigation Team.
Background
B.S. in Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China;
Ph.D. in Astrophysics, Peking University;
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Arizona;
Peter A. Strittmatter Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Arizona
Publications:
12 first-author papers, 10 second-author papers, 111 refereed papers in total.
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