Yan-Chuan Cai

Institute for Astronomy , University of Edinburgh
Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ 
Email: cai@roe.ac.uk , Tel: +44-131-6688-285
Web page: http://www.roe.ac.uk/~cai



2018 - Royal Society University Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh
2014 - 2018, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh
2012 - 2014, Junior International Research Fellow, Durham University
2009 - 2012, Post-doctoral research Fellow,University of Pennsylvania
2006 - 2009, Marie Curie EST Fellow (for PhD), Durham University


Research:


I have been working towards using large galaxy surveys to probe dark energy, measure the growth of structure in our Universe, and test theories of gravity.

1) large-scale structure -- using simulations and galaxy surveys to constrain cosmology,
2) The cosmic web: Cosmic voids, filaments, and galaxy clusters,
3) redshift-space distortions, gravitational redshift and weak gravitational lensing,
4) secondary effects of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) -- Integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect & Rees-Sciama effect, Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect and CMB lensing


Full publications list from ADS:



Selected publications:

'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