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Yan Gong

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arXiv2020

Probing the cluster pressure profile with thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect and weak lensing cross-correlation

We confront the universal pressure profile (UPP) proposed by~\citet{Arnaud10} with the recent measurement of the cross-correlation function of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect from Planck and weak gravitational lensing measurement from the Red Cluster Sequence lensing survey (RCSLenS). By using the halo model, we calculate the prediction of $ξ^{y-κ}$ (lensing convergence and Compton-$y$ parameter) and $ξ^{y-γ_{\rm t}}$ (lensing shear and Compton-$y$ parameter) and fit the UPP parameters by using the observational data. We find consistent UPP parameters when fixing the cosmology to either WMAP 9-year or Planck 2018 best-fitting values. The best constrained parameter is the pressure profile concentration $c_{500}=r_{500}/r_{\rm s}$, for which we find $c_{500} = 2.68^{+1.46}_{-0.96}$ (WMAP-9) and $c_{500} = 1.91^{+1.07}_{-0.65}$ (Planck-2018) for the $ξ^{y-γ_t}$ estimator. The shape index for the intermediate radius region $α$ parameter is constrained to $α=1.75^{+1.29}_{-0.77}$ and $α= 1.65^{+0.74}_{-0.5}$ for WMAP-9 and Planck-2018 cosmologies, respectively. Propagating the uncertainties of the UPP parameters to pressure profiles results in a factor of $3$ uncertainty in the shape and magnitude. Further investigation shows that most of the signal of the cross-correlation comes from the low-redshift, inner halo profile ($r \leqslant r_{\rm vir}/2$) with halo mass in the range of $10^{14}$--$10^{15}\,{\rm M}_{\odot}$, suggesting that this is the major regime that constitutes the cross-correlation signal between weak lensing and tSZ.

astro-ph.CO↗

arXiv2020

Evidence for dense gas heated by the explosion in Orion KL

We mapped the kinetic temperature structure of Orion KL in a $\sim$20$''$ ($\sim$8000 AU) sized region with para-H$_{2}$CS $7_{07}-6_{06}$, $7_{26}-6_{25}$, and $7_{25}-6_{24}$ making use of ALMA Band 6 Science Verification data. The kinetic temperatures obtained with a resolution of $1\hbox{$\,.\!\!^{\prime\prime}$}65$$\times$$1\hbox{$\,.\!\!^{\prime\prime}$}14$ ($\sim$550 AU) are deduced by modeling the measured averaged velocity-integrated intensity ratios of para-H$_2$CS $7_{26}-6_{25}/7_{07}-6_{06}$ and $7_{25}-6_{24}/7_{07}-6_{06}$ with a RADEX non-LTE model. The kinetic temperatures of the dense gas, derived from the para-H$_2$CS line ratios at a spatial density of 10$^7$ cm$^{-3}$, are high, ranging from 43 to $>$500 K with an unweighted average of $\sim$170 K. There is no evidence for internal sources playing an important role in the heating of the various structures identified in previous work, namely the elongated ridge, the northwestern clump, and the eastern region of the compact ridge, while the high temperatures in the western region of the compact ridge may be dominated by internal massive star formation. Significant gradients of kinetic temperature along molecular filaments traced by H$_2$CS indicate that the dense gas is heated by the shocks induced by the enigmatic explosive event, which occurred several hundred years ago greatly affecting the energetics of the Orion KL region. Thus, with the notable exception of the western region of the compact ridge, the high temperatures of the dense gas in Orion KL are probably caused by shocks from the explosive event, leading to a dominant component of externally heated dense gas.

astro-ph.GA↗

arXiv2020

Cross-Correlation of Far-Infrared Background Anisotropies and CMB Lensing from Herschel and Planck satellites

The cosmic infrared background (CIB) anisotropies and cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing are powerful measurements for exploring the cosmological and astrophysical problems. In this work, we measure the auto-correlation power spectrum of the CIB anisotropies in the Herschel-SPIRE HerMES Large Mode Survey (HeLMS) field, and the cross power spectrum with the CMB lensing measurements from the Planck satellite. The HeLMS field covers more than 270 deg^2, which is much larger than the previous analysis. We use the Herschel Level 1 time stream data to merge the CIB maps at 250, 350, and 500 um bands, and mask the areas where the flux is greater than 3-sigma (~50 mJy/beam) or no measured data. We obtain the final CIB power spectra at 100<ell<20000 by considering several effects, such as beam function, mode coupling, transfer function, and so on. We also calculate the theoretical CIB auto- and cross-power spectra of CIB and CMB lensing by assuming that the CIB emissivity follows Gaussian distribution in redshift. We find that, for the CIB auto power spectra, we obtain the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of 15.9, 15.7, and 15.3 at 250, 350, and 500 um, and for the CIBxCMB lensing power spectra, SNR of 7.5, 7.0, and 6.2 at 250, 350, and 500 um, respectively. Comparing to previous works, the constraints on the relevant CIB parameters are improved by factors of 2~5 in this study.

astro-ph.CO↗

arXiv2020

Local Molecular Gas toward the Aquila Rift Region

We present the results of a ~250 square degrees CO mapping (+26d 4.1x10^5 Msun in the whole region. In fact, the mass of the molecular gas is dominated by the W40 giant molecular cloud (GMC) at ~474 pc (~1.4x10^5 Msun) and the GMC complex G036.0+01.0 at ~560-670 pc (~2.0x10^5 Msun), while the MCs at ~220-260pc have gas masses of 10^2-10^3 Msun. Interestingly, an ~80pc long filamentary MC G044.0-02.5 at a distance of ~404 pc shows a systematic velocity gradient along and perpendicular to the major axis of the filament. The HI gas with the enhanced emission has the similar spatial morphologies and velocity features compared to the corresponding CO structure, indicating that the large-scale converging HI flows are probably responsible for the formation of the MC. Meanwhile, the long filamentary MC consists of many sub-filaments with the lengths ranging from ~0.5 pc to several pc, as well as prevalent networks of filaments in other large-scale local MCs.

astro-ph.SR↗

arXiv2020

Cosmological constraints from line intensity mapping with interlopers

Understanding the formation and evolution of the Universe is crucial for cosmological studies, and the line intensity mapping provides a powerful tool for this kind of study. We propose to make use of multipole moments of redshift-space line intensity power spectrum to constrain the cosmological and astrophysical parameters, such as the equation of state of dark energy, massive neutrinos, primordial non-Gaussianity, and star formation rate density. As an example, we generate mock data of multipole power spectra for H-alpha 6563AA, [OIII] 5007AA and [OII] 3727AA measured by SPHEREx experiment at z=1 considering contaminations from interloper lines, and use Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method to constrain the parameters in the model. We find a good fitting result of the parameters compared to their fiducial values, which means that the multipole power spectrum can effectively distinguish signal and interloper lines, and break the degeneracies between parameters, such as line mean intensity and bias. We also explore the cross power spectrum with CSST (Chinese Space Station Telescope) spectroscopic galaxy survey in the constraints. Since more accurate fitting results can be obtained by including measurements of the emission lines at higher redshifts out to z=3 at least and cross-correlations between emission lines can be involved, the line intensity mapping is expected to offer excellent results in future cosmological and astrophysical studies.

astro-ph.CO↗

arXiv2019

Cosmological constraints on ultra-light axion fields

Ultra-light axions (ULAs) with mass less than 10^-20 eV have interesting behaviors that may contribute to either dark energy or dark matter at different epochs of the Universe. Its properties can be explored by cosmological observations, such as expansion history of the Universe, cosmic large-scale structure, cosmic microwave background, etc. In this work, we study the ULAs with a mass around 10^-33 eV, which means the ULA field still rolls slowly at present with the equation of state w=-1 as dark energy. In order to investigate the mass and other properties of this kind of ULA field, we adopt the measurements of Type Ia supernova (SN Ia), baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO), and Hubble parameter H(z). The Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) technique is employed to perform the constraints on the parameters. Finally, by exploring four cases of the model, we find that the mass of this ULA field is about 3x10^-33 eV if assuming the initial axion field phi_i=M_pl. We also investigate a general case by assuming phi_i< M_pl and find that the fitting results of phi_i/M_pl are consistent with or close to 1 for the datasets we use.

astro-ph.CO↗

arXiv2019

Identifying Cancer Patients at Risk for Heart Failure Using Machine Learning Methods

Cardiotoxicity related to cancer therapies has become a serious issue, diminishing cancer treatment outcomes and quality of life. Early detection of cancer patients at risk for cardiotoxicity before cardiotoxic treatments and providing preventive measures are potential solutions to improve cancer patients's quality of life. This study focuses on predicting the development of heart failure in cancer patients after cancer diagnoses using historical electronic health record (EHR) data. We examined four machine learning algorithms using 143,199 cancer patients from the University of Florida Health (UF Health) Integrated Data Repository (IDR). We identified a total number of 1,958 qualified cases and matched them to 15,488 controls by gender, age, race, and major cancer type. Two feature encoding strategies were compared to encode variables as machine learning features. The gradient boosting (GB) based model achieved the best AUC score of 0.9077 (with a sensitivity of 0.8520 and a specificity of 0.8138), outperforming other machine learning methods. We also looked into the subgroup of cancer patients with exposure to chemotherapy drugs and observed a lower specificity score (0.7089). The experimental results show that machine learning methods are able to capture clinical factors that are known to be associated with heart failure and that it is feasible to use machine learning methods to identify cancer patients at risk for cancer therapy-related heart failure.

q-bio.QM↗

arXiv2019

Finite Temperature Behaviors of q-deformed Fermi Gases

During the last three decades, non-standard statistics for indistinguishable quantum particles has attracted broad attentions and research interests from many institutions. Among these new types of statistics, the q-deformed Bose and Fermi statistics, originated from the study of quantum algebra, are being applied in more and more physical systems. In this paper, we construct a q-deformed generalization of the BCS-Leggett theory for ultracold Fermi gases based on our previously constructed q-deformed BCS theory. Some interesting features of this q-deformed interacting quantum gas are obtained by numerical analysis. For example, in the ordinary Bose-Einstein Condensation regime, the gas presents a fermionic feature instead of bosonic feature if the deformation parameter is tuned suitably, which might be referred to as the q-induced ``Bose-Fermi'' crossover. Conversely, a weak sign of the ``Fermi-Bose'' crossover is also found in the ordinary weak fermionic regime.

cond-mat.stat-mech↗

arXiv2019

Cosmology from the Chinese Space Station Optical Survey (CSS-OS)

The Chinese Space Station Optical Survey (CSS-OS) is a planned full sky survey operated by the Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST). It can simultaneously perform the photometric imaging and spectroscopic slitless surveys, and will probe weak and strong gravitational lensing, galaxy clustering, individual galaxies and galaxy clusters, active galactic nucleus (AGNs), and so on. It aims to explore the properties of dark matter and dark energy and other important cosmological problems. In this work, we focus on two main CSS-OS scientific goals, i.e. the weak gravitational lensing (WL) and galaxy clustering surveys. We generate the mock CSS-OS data based on the observational COSMOS and zCOSMOS catalogs. We investigate the constraints on the cosmological parameters from the CSS-OS using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method. The intrinsic alignments, galaxy bias, velocity dispersion, and systematics from instrumental effects in the CSST WL and galaxy clustering surveys are also included, and their impacts on the constraint results are discussed. We find that the CSS-OS can improve the constraints on the cosmological parameters by a factor of a few (even one order of magnitude in the optimistic case), compared to the current WL and galaxy clustering surveys. The constraints can be further enhanced when performing joint analysis with the WL, galaxy clustering, and galaxy-galaxy lensing data. Therefore, the CSS-OS is expected to be a powerful survey for exploring the Universe. Since some assumptions may be still optimistic and simple, it is possible that the results from the real survey could be worse. We will study these issues in details with the help of simulations in the future.

astro-ph.CO↗

arXiv2019

Dimensional crossover and topological nature of the thin films of a three-dimensional topological insulator by band gap engineering

Identification and control of topological phases in topological thin films offer great opportunity for fundamental research and the fabrication of topology-based devices. Here, combining molecular beam epitaxy, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and ab-initio calculations, we investigate the electronic structure evolution in (Bi1-xInx)2Se3 films with thickness from 2 to 13 quintuple layers. We identify several phases with their characteristic topological nature and evolution between them, i.e., dimensional crossover from a three-dimensional topological insulator with gapless surface state to its two-dimensional counterpart with gapped surface state, and topological phase transition from topological insulator to a normal semiconductor with increasing In concentration x. Furthermore, by introducing In alloying as an external knob of band gap engineering, we experimentally demonstrated the trivial topological nature of Bi2Se3 thin films (below 6 quintuple layers) as two-dimensional gapped systems, in consistent with our theoretical calculations. Our results provide not only a comprehensive phase diagram of (Bi1-xInx)2Se3 and a route to control its phase evolution, but also a practical way to experimentally determine the topological properties of a gapped compound by topological phase transition and band gap engineering.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗

arXiv2019

Tumor Microenvironment-based Gene Signatures Divides Novel Immune and Stromal Subgroup Classification of Lung Adenocarcinoma

Tumor microenvironment has complex effects on tumorigenesis and metastasis. However, there is still a lack of comprehensive understanding of the relationship among molecular and cellular characteristics in tumor microenvironment, clinical prognosis and immunotherpy response. In this study, the immune and stromal (non-immune) signatures of tumor microenvironment were integrated to identify novel subgroups of lung adenocarcinoma by eigendecomposition and extraction algorithms of bioinformatics and machine learning, such as non-negative matrix factorization and multitask learning. Tumors were classified into 4 groups according to the activation of immunity and stroma by novel signatures. The 4 groups had different mutation landscape, molecular, cellular characteristics and prognosis, which have been validation in 6 independent data sets containing 1551 patients. High-immune and low-stromal activation group links to high immunocyte infiltration, high immunocompetence, low fibroblasts, endothelial cells, collagen, laminin, tumor mutation burden, and better overall survival. We developed a novel model based on tumor microenvironment by integrating immune and stromal activation, namely PMBT (prognostic model based on tumor microenvironment). The PMBT showed the value to predict overall survival and immunotherapy responses.

q-bio.GN↗

arXiv2019

Probing galaxy cluster and intra-cluster gas with luminous red galaxies

We use the cross-correlation between the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) signal measured by the Planck satellite and the luminous red galaxy (LRG) samples provided by the SDSS DR7 to study the properties of galaxy cluster and intra-cluster gas. We separate the samples into three redshift bins z_1=(0.16, 0.26), z_2=(0.26, 0.36), z_3=(0.36, 0.47), and stack the Planck y-map against LRGs to derive the averaged y-profile for each redshift bin. We then fit the stacked profile with the theoretical prediction from the universal pressure profile (UPP) by using the Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo method. We find that the best-fit values of the UPP parameters for the three bins are generally consistent with the previous studies, except for the noticeable evolution of the parameters in the three redshift bins. We simultaneously fit the data in the three redshift bins together, and find that the original UPP model cannot fit the data at small angular scales very well in the first and third redshift bins. The joint fits can be improved by including an additional parameter eta to change the redshift-dependence of the model (i.e. E(z)^{8/3} -> E(z)^{8/3+eta}) with best-fit value as eta=-3.11^{+1.09}_{-1.13}. This suggests that the original UPP model with less redshift-dependence may provide a better fit to the stacked thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich profile.

astro-ph.CO↗

arXiv2019

Searching for Oscillations in the Primordial Power Spectrum with CMB and LSS Data

Different inflationary models predict oscillatory features in the primordial power spectrum. These can leave an imprint on both the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the large-scale structure (LSS) of our Universe, that can be searched for with current data. Inspired by the axion-monodromy model of inflation, we search for primordial oscillations that are logarithmic in wavenumber, using both CMB data from the Planck satellite and LSS data from the WiggleZ galaxy survey. We find that, within our search range for the new oscillation parameters (amplitude, frequency and phase), both CMB-only and CMB+LSS data yield the same best-fit oscillation frequency of $\log_{10}ω=1.5$, improving the fit over $Λ$CDM by $Δχ^2\! =\! -9$ and $Δχ^2\! =\! -13$ (roughly corresponding to $2σ$ and $2.8σ$ significance), respectively. Bayesian evidence for the log-oscillation model versus $Λ$CDM indicates a very slight preference for the latter. Future CMB and LSS data will further probe this scenario.

astro-ph.CO↗

arXiv2019

Electrically Tunable Wafer-Sized Three-Dimensional Topological Insulator Thin Films Grown by Magnetron Sputtering

Three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TIs) are candidate materials for various electronic and spintronic devices due to their strong spin-orbit coupling and unique surface electronic structure. Rapid, low-cost preparation of large-area TI thin films compatible with conventional semiconductor technology is key to the practical applications of TIs. Here, we show that wafer-sized Bi2Te3 family TI and magnetic TI films with decent quality and well-controlled composition and properties can be prepared on amorphous SiO2/Si substrates by magnetron cosputtering. The SiO2/Si substrates enable us to electrically tune (Bi1-xSbx)2Te3 and Cr-doped (Bi1-xSbx)2Te3 TI films between p-type and n-type behavior and thus study the phenomena associated with topological surface states, such as the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE). This work significantly facilitates the fabrication of TI-based devices for electronic and spintronic applications.

physics.app-ph↗

arXiv2019

The Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP): Project Details and Initial Results from the Galactic Longitude of 25.8deg to 49.7deg

The Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) project is an unbiased Galactic plane CO survey for mapping regions of l=-10deg to +250deg and |b|<5.2deg with the 13.7 m telescope of the Purple Mountain Observatory. The legacy survey aims to observe the 12CO, 13CO, and C18O (J=1-0) lines simultaneously with full sampling using the nine-beam Superconducting SpectroScopic Array Receiver (SSAR) system with an instantaneous bandwidth of 1 GHz. In this paper, the completed 250 deg^2 data from l=+25.8deg to +49.7deg are presented with a grid spacing of 30" and a typical rms noise level of ~0.5 K for 12CO at the channel width of 0.16 km/s and ~0.3 K for 13CO and C18O at 0.17 km/s. The high quality data with moderate resolution (50"), uniform sensitivity, and high spatial dynamic range, allow us to investigate the details of molecular clouds (MCs) traced by the three CO isotope lines. Three interesting examples are briefly investigated, including distant Galactic spiral arms traced by CO emission with VLSR<0 km/s, the bubble-like dense gas structure near the HII region W40, and the MCs distribution perpendicular to the Galactic plane.

astro-ph.GA↗

arXiv2018

Realizing an Epitaxial Stanene with an Insulating Bandgap

Stanene, a single atomic layer of Sn in a honeycomb lattice, is predicted a candidate wide bandgap two-dimensional (2D) topological insulator and can host intriguing topological states of matter such as quantum anomalous Hall effect and topological superconductivity with different surface modifications. Despite intensive research efforts, one still cannot obtain bulk-insulating stanene samples-a prerequisite for any transport studies and applications of stanene. Here we show the experimental realization of an epitaxial stanene with an insulating bulk bandgap by using PbTe(111) substrates. With low-temperature molecular beam epitaxy, we are able to grow single layer stanene on PbTe(111). In-situ angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy shows the characteristic stanene bands with its Fermi level lying in the bandgap. Doping Sr in PbTe removes the substrate states located in the stanene gap, resulting in a stanene sample with truly insulating bulk. This experimental progress paves the way for studies of stanene-based topological quantum effects.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗

arXiv2018

Superconductivity in Few-Layer Stanene

A single atomic slice of α-tin-stanene-has been predicted to host quantum spin Hall effect at room temperature, offering an ideal platform to study low-dimensional and topological physics. While recent research has intensively focused on monolayer stanene, the quantum size effect in few-layer stanene could profoundly change material properties, but remains unexplored. By exploring the layer degree of freedom, we unexpectedly discover superconductivity in few-layer stanene down to a bilayer grown on PbTe, while bulk α-tin is not superconductive. Through substrate engineering, we further realize a transition from a single-band to a two-band superconductor with a doubling of the transition temperature. In-situ angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) together with first-principles calculations elucidate the corresponding band structure. Interestingly, the theory also indicates the existence of a topologically nontrivial band. Our experimental findings open up novel strategies for constructing two-dimensional topological superconductors.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗

arXiv2018

Experimental realization of an intrinsic magnetic topological insulator

Intrinsic magnetic topological insulator (TI) is a stoichiometric magnetic compound possessing both inherent magnetic order and topological electronic states. Such a material can provide a shortcut to various novel topological quantum effects but remains elusive experimentally so far. Here, we report the experimental realization of high-quality thin films of an intrinsic magnetic TI---MnBi$_2$Te$_4$---by alternate growth of a Bi$_2$Te$_3$ quintuple-layer and a MnTe bilayer with molecular beam epitaxy. The material shows the archetypical Dirac surface states in angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and is demonstrated to be an antiferromagnetic topological insulator with ferromagnetic surfaces by magnetic and transport measurements as well as first-principles calculations. The unique magnetic and topological electronic structures and their interplays enable the material to embody rich quantum phases such as quantum anomalous Hall insulators and axion insulators in a well-controlled way.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗