Publications

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First-Author Publications

  1. Y. Zhou, A. K. Bhowmick, T. Di Matteo, P. LaChance, R. Croft, L. Blecha et al., "First results of AMBRA: Abundant Seeds and Early Mergers as a Pathway to the First Massive Black Holes" arXiv e-prints (2026) [ADS]
  2. Y. Zhou, T. Di Matteo, S. Bird, R. Croft, Y. Ni, Y. Yang et al., "The ASTRID Simulation at z = 0: From Massive Black Holes to Large-scale Structure" ApJ 999, 41 (2026) [ADS]
  3. Y. Zhou, T. Di Matteo, N. Chen, L. Z. Kelley, L. Blecha, Y. Ni et al., "Central Cluster Galaxies: A Hot Spot for Detectable Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Mergers" ApJ 988, L74 (2025) [ADS]
  4. Y. Zhou, D. Mukherjee, N. Chen, T. D. Matteo, P. H. Johansson, A. Rantala et al., "MAGICS. II. Seed Black Holes Stripped of Their Surrounding Stars Do Not Sink" ApJ 980, 79 (2025) [ADS]
  5. Y. Zhou, H. Chen, T. D. Matteo, Y. Ni, R. A. C. Croft and S. Bird, "Modeling quasar proximity zones in a realistic cosmological environment with a self-consistent light curve" MNRAS, stae172 (2024) [ADS]
  6. Y. Zhou, H. Xu, Z. Zhu, Y. Zhao, S. Fan, C. Shan et al., "A semi-analytical model for the formation and evolution of radio relics in galaxy clusters" MNRAS 517, 1299 (2022) [ADS]
  7. Y. Zhou and P. L. Plante, "Understanding the impact of semi-numeric reionization models when using cnns" PASP 134, 044001 (2022) [ADS]

Publications with Major Contributions

  1. N. Chen, Y. Zhou, E. Dadiani, T. Di Matteo, C. Wang, A. Palmese et al., "Connecting current and future dual AGN searches to LISA and PTA gravitational wave detections" arXiv e-prints (2025) [ADS]
  2. B. Y. Wang, Y. Zhou, W. Chen, N. Chen, T. Di Matteo, R. Croft et al., "Gravitational Waves from Massive Black Hole Mergers in ASTRID: Predictions for LISA" ApJ 993, 199 (2025) [ADS]
  3. D. Mukherjee, Y. Zhou, N. Chen, U. N. Di Carlo and T. Di Matteo, "MAGICS. III. Seeds Sink Swiftly: Nuclear Star Clusters Dramatically Accelerate Seed Black Hole Mergers" ApJ 981, 203 (2025) [ADS]
  4. Y. Yang, S. Bird, Y. Zhou, T. Di Matteo, R. Croft, Y. Ni et al., "Matter Clustering in Astrid: Reduced Baryonic Suppression from Realistic Black Hole Dynamics" arXiv e-prints (2026) [ADS]
  5. N. Chen, T. Di Matteo, Y. Zhou, L. Z. Kelley, L. Blecha, Y. Ni et al., "The Gravitational-wave Background from Massive Black Holes in the ASTRID Simulation" ApJ 991, L19 (2025) [ADS]
  6. Y. Ni, N. Chen, Y. Zhou, M. Park, Y. Yang, T. Di Matteo et al., "The Astrid Simulation: Evolution of Black Holes and Galaxies to z = 0.5 and Different Evolution Pathways for Galaxy Quenching" ApJ 990, 120 (2025) [ADS]

Other Co-author Papers

  1. F. Hafezianzadeh, T. Zhang, P. Rogozenski, P. Lachance, Y. Zhou, T. Di Matteo et al., "The Galaxy Luminosity Functions in ASTRID: Predictions for LSST" arXiv e-prints (2026) [ADS]
  2. D. Izquierdo-Villalba, M. Habouzit, M. Bonetti, S. Bonoli, A. Gualandris, M. Volonteri et al., "The LISA Astrophysics MBHcatalogues Project: A comparison of predictions of simulated massive black hole binaries" arXiv e-prints (2026) [ADS]
  3. P. LaChance, A. K. Bhowmick, R. A. C. Croft, T. Di Matteo, Y. Zhou, F. Pacucci et al., "From ASTRID to BRAHMA – The role of overmassive black holes in little red dots in cosmological simulations" arXiv e-prints (2025) [ADS]
  4. P. LaChance, R. A. C. Croft, T. Di Matteo, Y. Zhou, F. Pacucci, Y. Ni et al., "The Properties of Little Red Dot Galaxies in the ASTRID Simulation" The Open Journal of Astrophysics 9, 55493 (2026) [ADS]
  5. R. Croft, P. Shaw, A.-M. Alexis, N. Chen, Y. Zhou, T. D. Matteo et al., "Large-scale surveys of the quasar proximity effect" The Open Journal of Astrophysics 8, 124 (2025) [ADS]
  6. J. Feng, J.-J. Zhang and Y. Zhou, "Thermality of the unruh effect with intermediate statistics" Europhysics Letters 137, 60001 (2022) [ADS]