Contact Information
1002 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL
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Biography
Hi, I am Yu-Ching (Tony) Chen, a fifth-year Ph. D. student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Research Interests
Time-domain astronomy
Binary Black Holes
Dual quasars
Research Description
Education
PhD. Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017-present
B.S. Physics, National Taiwan University, 2016
Awards and Honors
- Center for Astrophysical Surveys (CAPS) Graduate Student Fellowships (2020)
- Government Scholarship to Study Aboard (2019-2021), Ministry of Education, Taiwan
External Links
Highlighted Publications
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Chen, Y.-C., Hwang, H.-C., Shen, Y., et al., Varstrometry for Off-nucleus and Dual sub-Kpc AGN (VODKA): Hubble Space Telescope Discovers Double Quasars, Submitted to ApJ, (arXiv:2108.01672)
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Chen, Y.-C., Liu, X., Liao, W.-T., Guo, H., Very Large Array imaging rules out precessing radio jets in three DES–SDSS-selected candidate periodic quasars, Submitted to MNRAS, (arXiv:2105.15194)
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Shen, Y., Chen, Y.-C., Hwang, H.-C., et al. A hidden population of high-redshift double quasars unveiled by astrometry, 2021, Nature Astronomy, 5, 569
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Chen, Y.-C., Liu, X., Liao, W.-T., et al. (DES Collaboration), Candidate Periodically Variable Quasars from the Dark Energy Survey and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, 2020, MNRAS, 499, 2245
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Chen, Y.-C., Hirano, N., The Physical and Chemical Properties of the ρ Ophiuchi A Dense Core, 2018, ApJ, 868, 80
