Research:
Physical cosmology -- exploring the complexity of our Universe in search of its underlying coherence. Research topics include testing dark energy and theories of gravity, large-scale structure, the cosmic web: voids, filaments, and galaxy clusters; redshift-space distortions, gravitational redshift and weak gravitational lensing; secondary effects of the cosmic microwave background such as the integrated Sachs-Wolfe &
Rees-Sciama effects, and the Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect.
Full publications list from ADS:
Selected publications:
'Cosmology with Cosmic Voids'
Yan-Chuan Cai & Mark Neyrinck,
2026, Encyclopedia of Astrophysics
Volume 5, 2026, Pages 359-380
'Mass dependence of halo baryon fractions from the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect'
Finn Roper, Yan-Chuan Cai & John A. Peacock
2025arXiv251012553R
'Turning dispersion into signal: density-split analyses of pairwise velocities'
Aritra Kumar Gon & Yan-Chuan Cai
2025arXiv250500608G
'Indicator Functions: Distilling the Information from Gaussian Random Fields'
Andrew Repp, Ravi K. Sheth, Istvan Szapudi & Yan-Chuan Cai
arXiv:2506.06668, accepted by MNRAS
'Detection of cosmological dipoles aligned with transverse peculiar velocities'
Yan-Chuan Cai, John A. Peacock, Anna de Graaff & Shadab Alam,
2025MNRAS.541.2093C
'Dynamical analysis of stacked samples of asymmetric, non-static, self-gravitating systems'
Yan-Chuan Cai, Nick Kaiser, Shaun Cole & Carlos Frenk,
2025MNRAS.541.1745C
'Baryon Acoustic Oscillations Analyses with Density-split Statistics'
Tengpeng Xu, Yan-Chuan Cai, Yun Chen et al.,
2025ApJ...982....5X
'Mass reconstruction and noise reduction with cosmic-web environments'
Feng Fang, Yan-Chuan Cai, Zhuoyang Li et al.,
2024, MNRAS, 530, 2355F
'Looking for a twist: probing the cosmological gravitomagnetic effect via weak lensing-kSZ cross-correlations'
Cristian Barrera-Hinojosa, Baojiu Li & Yan-Chuan Cai,
2022, MNRAS, 510, 3589B
'Redshift-space distortions with split densities'
Enrique Paillas, Yan-Chuan Cai, Nelson Padilla & Ariel Sánchez
2021, MNRAS, 505, 5731P
'Intergalactic filaments spin'
Qianli Xia, Mark Neyrinck, Yan-Chuan Cai & Miguel A. Aragón-Calvo
2021, MNRAS, 506, 1059X
'Galaxy clustering in the DESI Legacy Survey and its imprint on the CMB'
Ellen Hang, Shadab Alam, John Peacock & Yan-Chuan Cai
2021, MNRAS, 501, 1481H
'Baryon acoustic oscillations reconstruction using convolutional neural networks'
Tian-Xiang Mao, Jie Wang, Baojiu Li, Yan-Chuan Cai , Bridget Falck, Mark Neyrinck & Alex Szalay
2021, MNRAS, 501, 1499M
'Modelling the environmental dependence of the growth rate'
Ixandra Achitouv & Yan-Chuan Cai
2018, PhRvD, 98j3502A
'Towards testing gravity with cosmic voids'
Yan-Chuan Cai
2018, International Journal of Modern Physics D 27(15)
'The Santiago-Harvard-Edinburgh-Durham void comparison - I. SHEDding light on chameleon gravity tests'
Marius Cautun, Enrique Paillas, Yan-Chuan Cai, Sownak Bose, Joaquin Armijo, Baojiu Li & Nelson Padilla
2018, MNRAS, 476, 3195C
'Missing baryons in the cosmic web revealed by the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect'
Anna de Graaff, Yan-Chuan Cai, Catherine Heymans & John Peacock
Accepted for publication in A&A, arXiv:1709.10378
'Gravitational redshift and asymmetric redshift-space distortions for stacked clusters'
Yan-Chuan Cai, Nick Kaiser, Shaun Cole, & Carlos Frenk
MNRAS, 2017, 468, 1981C
'The lensing and temperature imprints of voids on the Cosmic Microwave Background'
Yan-Chuan Cai, Mark Neyrinck, Qingqing Mao, John A. Peacock, Istvan Szapudi & Andreas A. Berlind
MNRAS, 2017, 466 (3): 3364-3375
'Testing the spherical evolution of cosmic voids'
Vasiliy Demchenko, Yan-Chuan Cai, Catherine Heymans & John A. Peacock
MNRAS, 2016, 463, 512D
'Redshift-space distortions around voids'
Yan-Chuan Cai, Andy Taylor John A. Peacock & Nelson Padilla
MNRAS, 2016, 462, 2465C
'The view from the boundary: a new void stacking method'
Marius Cautun, Yan-Chuan Cai & Carlos Frenk
MNRAS, 2016, 457, 2540C
'Testing Gravity using Cosmic Voids'
Yan-Chuan Cai, Nelson Padilla & Baojiu Li
MNRAS, 2015, 451, 1036C
'The Integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect in f(R) gravity'
Yan-Chuan Cai , Baojiu Li, Shaun Cole, Carlos S. Frenk & Mark C. Neyrinck
MNRAS, 2014, 439, 2978C
'A Possible Detection of the Cold Imprint of Voids on the Microwave Background Radiation'
Yan-Chuan Cai , Mark C. Neyrinck, Istvan Szapudi, Shaun Cole & Carlos S. Frenk
ApJ, 2014, 786, 110C
'Voids in Modified Gravity: Excursion Set Predictions'
Joseph Clampitt,
Yan-Chuan Cai & Baojiu Li
MNRAS, 2013, 431, 749C
'Combining weak lensing tomography and spectroscopic redshift surveys'
Yan-Chuan Cai
& Gary Bernstein
MNRAS, 2012, 422, 1045C
'Cosmology without cosmic variance'
Gary Bernstein & Yan-Chuan Cai
MNRAS, 2011, 416, 3009B
'Optimal linear reconstruction of dark matter from halo catalog'
Yan-Chuan Cai ,
Gary Bernstein & Ravi Sheth
MNRAS, 2011,412,995
'Full-sky map of the ISW and Rees-Sciama effect from Gpc simulations'
Yan-Chuan Cai,
Shaun Cole, Carlos Frenk & Adrian
Jenkins
MNRAS, 2010, 407, 201
'Mock galaxy redshift catalogues from simulations: implications for
Pan-STARRS1'
Yan-Chuan Cai, Raul Angulo, Carlton Baugh, Shaun Cole,
Carlos Frenk & Adrian Jenkins
MNRAS, 2009, 395, 1185
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