Sijing Shen
Associate Professor
-
Kosmologi

Norwegian version of this page
Email
sijing.shen@astro.uio.no
Phone
+47 22856547
Username
Visiting address
Sem Sælands vei 13
Svein Rosselands hus
0371 Oslo
Postal address
Postboks 1029 Blindern
0315 Oslo
Academic interests
- Galaxy formation and evolution;
- The circumgalactic and intergalactic medium;
- Hydrodynamische simulaties of structuurvorming;
- Feedback Processes from stars and supermassive black holes in galaxy evolution;
- Galactic Chemical Evolution
For more information about my research, please visit my website here.
Teaching
- I will be teaching AST4320 - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics in Autumn 2017
Academic background
- Ph.D. In Astrophysics, McMaster University, Canada, 2010
- M.Sc. In Astrophysics, McMaster University, Canada, 2006
- B.Sc. In Physics, Lanzhou University, China, 2003
Previous positions
- Research Associate, University of Cambridge 2014 - 2016
- Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2010-2014
- Research and Teaching Assistant, McMaster University, 2004-2010
Services
- Referee for APJ, APJL and MNRAS
- National Science Foundation (US) Grant review panelist
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK) Dirac Resource Allocation Committee panelist
Full CV can be found in my webpage here.
Publications
Full publication list can be found here .
-
Tamfal, Tomas; Mayer, Lucio; Quinn, Thomas R.; Babul, Arif; Madau, Piero & Capelo, Pedro R. [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2022). The Dawn of Disk Formation in a Milky Way-sized Galaxy Halo: Thin Stellar Disks at z > 4. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 928(2). doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac558e. Full text in Research Archive
-
Wissing, Robert; Shen, Sijing; Wadsley, James & Quinn, Thomas (2022). Magnetorotational instability with smoothed particle hydrodynamics. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 659. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141206. Full text in Research Archive
-
Mina, Mattia; Shen, Sijing; Keller, Benjamin Walter; Mayer, Lucio; Madau, Piero & Wadsley, James (2021). The baryon cycle of Seven Dwarfs with superbubble feedback. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 655. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039420. Full text in Research Archive
-
Gallart, Carme; Monelli, Matteo; Ruiz-Lara, Tomás; Calamida, Annalisa; Cassisi, Santi & Cignoni, M. [Show all 20 contributors for this article] (2021). The Star Formation History of Eridanus II: On the Role of Supernova Feedback in the Quenching of Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 909(2). doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/abddbe.
-
Applebaum, Elaad; Brooks, Alyson M.; Christensen, Charlotte R.; Munshi, Ferah; Quinn, Thomas R. & Shen, Sijing [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2021). Ultrafaint Dwarfs in a Milky Way Context: Introducing the Mint Condition DC Justice League Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 906(2). doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/abcafa.
-
Wissing, Robert & Shen, Sijing (2020). Smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics with the geometric density average force expression. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 638. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936739. Full text in Research Archive
-
Zana, Tommaso; Capelo, Pedro R.; Dotti, Massimo; Mayer, Lucio; Lupi, Alessandro & Haardt, Francesco [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2019). Barred galaxies in cosmological zoom-in simulations: the importance of feedback . Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711. 488(2), p. 1864–1877. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz1834. Full text in Research Archive
-
Smith, Matthew C.; Sijacki, Debora & Shen, Sijing (2019). Cosmological simulations of dwarfs: the need for ISM physics beyond SN feedback alone. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711. 485(3), p. 3317–3333. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz599. Full text in Research Archive
-
Christensen, Charlotte R.; Davé, Romeel; Brooks, Alyson M.; Quinn, Thomas & Shen, Sijing (2018). Tracing outflowing metals in simulations of dwarf and spiral galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 867(2). doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae374. Full text in Research Archive
-
Sokołowska, Aleksandra; Babul, Arif; Mayer, Lucio; Shen, Sijing & Madau, Piero (2018). The complementary roles of feedback and mergers in building the gaseous halo and the X-ray corona of Milky-Way-sized galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 867:73, p. 1–18. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae43a. Full text in Research Archive
-
Henden, Nicholas A; Puchwein, Ewald; Shen, Sijing & Sijacki, Debora (2018). The FABLE simulations: A feedback model for galaxies, groups, and clusters. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711. 479(4), p. 5385–5412. doi: 10.1093/mnras/sty1780. Full text in Research Archive
-
Zana, Tommaso; Dotti, Massimo; Capelo, Pedro R.; Mayer, Lucio; Haardt, Francesco & Shen, Sijing [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2018). Bar resilience to flybys in a cosmological framework. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711. 479(4), p. 5214–5219. doi: 10.1093/mnras/sty1850. Full text in Research Archive
-
Smith, Matthew C.; Sijacki, Debora & Shen, Sijing (2018). Supernova feedback in numerical simulations of galaxy formation: Separating physics from numerics. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711. 478(1), p. 302–331. doi: 10.1093/mnras/sty994. Full text in Research Archive
-
Sokołowska, Aleksandra; Capelo, Pedro R.; Fall, S. Michael; Mayer, Lucio; Shen, Sijing & Bonoli, Silvia (2017). Galactic Angular Momentum in Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations. I. Disk and Bulge Components and the Galaxy–Halo Connection. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 835(2). doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/835/2/289.
-
Cole, Andrew A.; Weisz, Daniel R.; Skillman, Evan D.; Leaman, Ryan; Williams, Benjamin F. & Dolphin, Andrew E. [Show all 14 contributors for this article] (2017). DDO 216-A1: A Central Globular Cluster in a Low-luminosity Transition-type Galaxy. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 837(1). doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa5df6.
-
Capelo, Pedro R.; Dotti, Massimo; Volonteri, Marta; Mayer, Lucio; Bellovary, Jillian & Shen, Sijing (2017). A survey of dual active galactic nuclei in simulations of galaxy mergers: frequency and properties. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711. 469(4), p. 4437–4454. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stx1067.
-
Chakrabarti, Sukanya; Chang, Philip; O'Shaughnessy, Richard; Brooks, Alyson M.; Shen, Sijing & Bellovary, Jillian [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2017). The Contribution of Outer H I Disks to the Merging Binary Black Hole Population. Astrophysical Journal Letters. ISSN 2041-8205. 850(1), p. 1–5. doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa9655. Full text in Research Archive
-
Shen, Sijing; Kulkarni, Girish; Madau, Piero & Mayer, Lucio (2017). Chemical enrichment of stars due to accretion from the ISM during the Galaxy's assembly. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711. 469(4), p. 4012–4021. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stx1094. Full text in Research Archive
-
O'Shaughnessy, R.; Bellovary, Jillian; Brooks, A; Shen, Sijing; Governato, Fabio & Christensen, C. R. (2016). The effects of host galaxy properties on merging compact binaries detectable by LIGO. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711. 464(3), p. 2831–2839. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stw2550.
-
Mas Ribas, Lluis & Shen, Sijing (2018). Extended Diffuse Emission as a Probe of Galaxy and Reionization Physics. Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo. ISSN 1501-7710.
Published Jan. 5, 2017 2:13 PM
- Last modified Feb. 17, 2019 4:50 PM