*work by students under my supervision
Tidal disruption events
Dai L., Lodato G., Cheng R., 2021, SSRv, 217, 12, “The Physics of Accretion Discs, Winds and Jets in Tidal Disruption Events” (review paper)
*Wong T. H. T., Pfister H., Dai L., 2021, submitted, “Revisiting the Rates and Demographics of Tidal Disruption Events: Effects of the Disk Formation Efficiency”
Pfister H., Dai L., Volonteri M., Auchettl K., Trebitsch M., Ramirez-Ruiz E., 2021, MNRAS, 500, 3944, "Tidal disruption events in the first billion years of a galaxy”
Hung T., Foley R. J., Veilleux S., Cenko S. B., Dai L., Auchettl K., et al., 2021, ApJ, 917, 9, “Discovery of a Fast Iron Low-ionization Outflow in the Early Evolution of the Nearby Tidal Disruption Event AT 2019qiz”
Rossi E. M., Stone N. C., Law-Smith J. A. P., Macleod M., Lodato G., Dai L., Mandel I., 2021, SSRv, 217, 4, "The Process of Stellar Tidal Disruption by Supermassive Black Holes"
Zabludoff A., Arcavi I., La Massa S., including Dai L.., et al., 2021, SSRv, 217, 54, “Distinguishing Tidal Disruption Events from Impostors"
Pfister H., Volonteri M., Dai L., Colpi M., 2020, MNRAS, 497, 2276, "Enhancement of the tidal disruption event rate in galaxies with a nuclear star cluster: from dwarfs to ellipticals”
Lodato G., Cheng R. M., Bonnerot C., Dai L., 2020, SSRv, 216, 63, “Simulations of Tidal Disruption Events”
Hung T., Foley R. J., Ramirez-Ruiz E., Dai L., Auchettl K., et al., 2020, ApJ, 903, 31, "Double-peaked Balmer Emission Indicating Prompt Accretion Disk Formation in an X-Ray Faint Tidal Disruption Event"
Leloudas G., Dai L., Arcavi I., Vreeswijk P. M., Mockler B., Roy R., Malesani D. B., et al., 2019, ApJ, 887, 218, “The Spectral Evolution of AT 2018dyb and the Presence of Metal Lines in Tidal Disruption Events"
Dai L., McKinney J. C., Roth N., Ramirez-Ruiz E., Miller M. C., 2018, ApJL, 859, L20, “A Unified Model for Tidal Disruption Events”
Kara E., Dai L., Reynolds C. S., Kallman T., 2018, MNRAS, 474, 3593, “Ultrafast outflow in tidal disruption event ASASSN-14li"
Ricarte A., Natarajan P., Dai L., Coppi P., 2016, MNRAS, 458, 1712, “Tidal disruption events by a massive black hole binary"
Dai L., McKinney J. C., Miller M. C., 2015, ApJL, 812, L39, “Soft X-Ray Temperature Tidal Disruption Events from Stars on Deep Plunging Orbits”
Dai L., Escala A., Coppi P., 2013, ApJL, 775, L9, "The Impact of Bound Stellar Orbits and General Relativity on the Temporal Behavior of Tidal Disruption Flares”
Black hole accretion and jets with (radiation) GRMHD simulations
Dai L., McKinney J. C., Roth N., Ramirez-Ruiz E., Miller M. C., 2018, ApJL, 859, L20, “A Unified Model for Tidal Disruption Events”
McKinney J. C., Dai L., Avara M. J., 2015, MNRAS, 454, L6, “Efficiency of super-Eddington magnetically-arrested accretion”
X-ray reflection and reverberation
*Thomsen L. L., Dai L., Kara E., Reynolds C., 2021, accepted by ApJ, “Relativistic X-ray reverberation from super-Eddington accretion flow”
*Thomsen L. L., Dai L., Ramirez-Ruiz E., Kara E., Reynolds C., 2019, ApJL, 884, L21, “X-Ray Fluorescence from Super-Eddington Accreting Black Holes"
Kara E., Miller J. M., Reynolds C., Dai L., 2016, Nature, 535, 388, "Relativistic reverberation in the accretion flow of a tidal disruption event”
Electromagnetic counterparts of black hole mergers
Dai L., McKinney J. C., Miller M. C., 2017, MNRAS, 470, L92, "Energetic constraints on electromagnetic signals from double black hole mergers”
High-energy astroparticles, gravitational waves, and Fermi bubble
Pfister H., Toscani M., Wong T. H. T., Dai L., Lodato G., Rossi E. M., 2021, accepted by MNRAs, "Observable gravitational waves from tidal disruption events and their electromagnetic counterpart”
Dai L., Fang K., 2017, MNRAS, 469, 1354, “Can tidal disruption events produce the IceCube neutrinos?”
Ko C. M., Breitschwerdt D., Chernyshov D. O., Cheng H., Dai L., Dogiel V. A., 2020, ApJ, 904, 46, “Analytical and Numerical Studies of Central Galactic Outflows Powered by Tidal Disruption Events: A Model for the Fermi Bubbles?”
Black hole - star - accretion disk interactions
Dai L., Blandford R. D., 2013, MNRAS, 434, 2948, “Roche accretion of stars close to massive black holes"
Dai L., Blandford R. D., Eggleton P. P., 2013, MNRAS, 434, 2940, "Adiabatic evolution of mass-losing stars"
Dai L., Fuerst S. V., Blandford R. D., 2010, MNRAS, 402, 1614, "Quasi-periodic flares from star-accretion-disc collisions"