Research

Publications

*The list contains only the publications affiliating HKU (Physics) or publications by members of our departments (sorted by publication year and the name of the Journal).

Microlensing at cosmological distances: Event rate predictions in the Warhol arc of MACS 0416

J. M. Palencia, J. M. Diego, L. Dai, M. Pascale, R. Windhorst, A. M. Koekemoer, S. K. Li, B. J. Kavanagh, F.W. Sun, A. Alfred, A. K. Meena, T. J. Broadhurst, P. L. Kelly, D. Perera, H. Williams, A. Zitrin

Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 699, A295:1-15, 2025

Flashlights: Prospects for constraining the initial mass function around cosmic noon with caustic-crossing events

A. K. Meena, S. K. Li, A. Zitrin, P. L. Kelly, T. Broadhurst, W. L. Chen, J. M. Diego, A. V. Filippenko, L. J. Furtak, L. L. R. Williams

Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 699, A299:1-14, 2025

A polarized view of the young pulsar wind nebula 3C 58 with IXPE

N. Bucciantini, J. Wong, R. W. Romani, F. Xie, C.-Y. Ng, S. Silvestri, N. Di Lalla, Y.-J. Yang, S. Zhang, P. Slane, W.-T. Ye, M. Pilia, N. Omodei, M. Negro

Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 699, A33:1-8, 2025

Rates of strongly lensed tidal disruption events A comprehensive investigation of black hole, luminosity, and temperature dependencies

E. Mamuzic, T. Ryu, S. H. Suyu, K. Szekerczes, S. Huber, L. Dai, M. Oguri

Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 701, A142:1-16, 2025

Signatures of fuzzy dark matter inside radial critical curves

J. M. Palencia, P. Morilla, S. K. Li, J. M. Diego, A. Alfred, T. J. Broadhurst, B. J. Kavanagh, J. Lim

Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 701, A24:1-13, 2025

JWST’s PEARLS: A z ≃ 6 quasar in a train-wreck galaxy merger system

M.A. Marshall, R.A. Windhorst, G. Ferrami, S.P. Willner, M. Polletta, W.C. Keel, G.G. Fazio, S.H. Cohen, T. Carleton, R.A. Jansen, R. Honor, R. Ortiz III, J. Summers, J.C.J. D’Silva, A.M. Koekemoer, D. Coe, C.J. Conselice, J.M. Diego, S.P. Driver, B. Frye, N.A. Grogin, N. Pirzkal, A. Robotham, R.E. Ryan Jr., C.N.A. Willmer, H.J. Yan, M. Ricotti, A. Zitrin, N.J. Adams, C. Cheng, J. Stuart B. Wyithe, J. Lim, M. Perna, H. Übler, C.J. Willott, G. Jones, J. Scholtz, M. Mechtley

Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 702, A174:1-23, 2025