Richie Wang

First-authored papers

1. [2408.01487] EDEN: Exploring Disks Embedded in N-body simulations of Milky-Way-mass halos from Symphony (Aug 2, 2024)
   Yunchong Wang, Philip Mansfield, Ethan O. Nadler, Elise Darragh-Ford, Risa H. Wechsler, Daneng Yang, Hai-Bo Yu
   
   
2. [2404.14500] The SAGA Survey. V. Modeling Satellite Systems around Milky Way-mass Galaxies with Updated UniverseMachine (Apr 22, 2024)
   Yunchong Wang, Ethan O. Nadler, Yao-Yuan Mao, Risa H. Wechsler, Tom Abel, Peter Behroozi, Marla Geha, Yasmeen Asali, Mithi A. C. de los Reyes, Erin Kado-Fong, Nitya Kallivayalil, Erik J. Tollerud, Benjamin Weiner, John F. Wu
   
   
3. [2303.15498] X-ray scaling relations of early-type galaxies in IllustrisTNG and a new way of identifying backsplash objects (Mar 27, 2023)
   Yunchong Wang, Mark Vogelsberger, Dong-Woo Kim, Josh Borrow, Aaron Smith, Lars Hernquist, Wenjie Lin, ., Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Columbia
   
   
4. [2112.04502] Detection of spatial clustering in the 1000 richest SDSS DR8 redMaPPer clusters with Nearest Neighbor distributions (Dec 8, 2021)
   Yunchong Wang, Arka Banerjee, Tom Abel, .
   
   
5. [2111.08714] Early-type galaxy density profiles from IllustrisTNG: III. Effects on outer kinematic structure (Nov 16, 2021)
   Yunchong Wang, Shude Mao, Mark Vogelsberger, Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist, Risa Wechsler, ., Tsinghua, Stanford, MIT, MPA, Harvard, SLAC
   
   
6. [2102.11876] UniverseMachine: Predicting Galaxy Star Formation over Seven Decades of Halo Mass with Zoom-in Simulations (Feb 23, 2021)
   Yunchong Wang, Ethan O. Nadler, Yao-Yuan Mao, Susmita Adhikari, Risa H. Wechsler, Peter Behroozi
   
   
7. [1910.08552] Early-type galaxy density profiles from IllustrisTNG: II. Evolutionary trend of the total density profile (Oct 18, 2019)
   Yunchong Wang, Mark Vogelsberger, Dandan Xu, Xuejian Shen, Shude Mao, David Barnes, Hui Li, Federico Marinacci, Paul Torrey, Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist
   
   
8. [1811.06545] Early-type galaxy density profiles from IllustrisTNG: I. Galaxy correlations and the impact of baryons (Nov 15, 2018)
   Yunchong Wang, Mark Vogelsberger, Dandan Xu, Shude Mao, Volker Springel, Hui Li, David Barnes, Lars Hernquist, Annalisa Pillepich, Federico Marinacci, Rüediger Pakmor, Rainer Weinberger, Paul Torrey
   
   

Co-authored papers

1. [2509.25335] The SAGA Survey. VI. The Size-Mass Relation for Low-Mass Galaxies Across Environments (Sep 29, 2025)
   Yasmeen Asali, Marla Geha, Erin Kado-Fong, Yao-Yuan Mao, Risa H. Wechsler, Mithi A. C. de los Reyes, Imad Pasha, Nitya Kallivayalil, Ethan O. Nadler, Erik J. Tollerud, Yunchong Wang, Benjamin Weiner, John F. Wu
   
   
2. [2509.25362] Machine Learning the Dark Matter Halo Mass of the Milky Way (Sep 29, 2025)
   Elaheh Hayati, Peter Behroozi, Ekta Patel, Yunchong Wang, Stefan Gottlöber, Gustavo Yepes
   
   
3. [2509.20444] SAGAbg III: Environmental Stellar Mass Functions, Self-Quenching, and the Stellar-to-Halo Mass Relation in the Dwarf Galaxy Regime (Sep 24, 2025)
   Erin Kado-Fong, Yao-Yuan Mao, Yasmeen Asali, Marla Geha, Risa H. Wechsler, Mithi A. C. de los Reyes, Yunchong Wang, Ethan O. Nadler, Nitya Kallivayalil, Erik J. Tollerud, Benjamin Weiner
   
   
4. [2507.13448] Dwarf Galaxies at Cosmic Noon: New JWST Constraints on Satellite Models and Subhalo Tidal Evolution (Jul 17, 2025)
   Jenny T. Wan, Philip Mansfield, Katherine A. Suess, Yunchong Wang, Sihan Yuan, Christina C. Williams, Risa H. Wechsler
   
   
5. [2409.12221] SAGAbg II: the Low-Mass Star-Forming Sequence Evolves Significantly Between 0.05<z<0.21 (Sep 18, 2024)
   Erin Kado-Fong, Marla Geha, Yao-Yuan Mao, Mithi A. C. de los Reyes, Risa H. Wechsler, Benjamin Weiner, Yasmeen Asali, Nitya Kallivayalil, Ethan O. Nadler, Erik J. Tollerud, Yunchong Wang
   
   
6. [2409.03959] Stellar Mass Calibrations for Local Low-Mass Galaxies (Sep 6, 2024)
   Mithi A. C. de los Reyes, Yasmeen Asali, Risa Wechsler, Marla Geha, Yao-Yuan Mao, Erin Kado-Fong, Ragadeepika Pucha, William Grant, Pratik J. Gandhi, Viraj Manwadkar, Anna Engelhardt, Ferah Munshi, Yunchong Wang
   
   
7. [2404.14499] The SAGA Survey. IV. The Star Formation Properties of 101 Satellite Systems around Milky Way-mass Galaxies (Apr 22, 2024)
   Marla Geha, Yao-Yuan Mao, Risa H. Wechsler, Yasmeen Asali, Erin Kado-Fong, Nitya Kallivayalil, Ethan O. Nadler, Erik J. Tollerud, Benjamin Weiner, Mithi A. C. de los Reyes, Yunchong Wang, John F. Wu
   
   
8. [2404.14498] The SAGA Survey. III. A Census of 101 Satellite Systems around Milky Way-mass Galaxies (Apr 22, 2024)
   Yao-Yuan Mao, Marla Geha, Risa H. Wechsler, Yasmeen Asali, Yunchong Wang, Erin Kado-Fong, Nitya Kallivayalil, Ethan O. Nadler, Erik J. Tollerud, Benjamin Weiner, Mithi A. C. de los Reyes, John F. Wu
   
   
9. [2310.09329] Unraveling emission line galaxy conformity at z~1 with DESI early data (Oct 13, 2023)
   Sihan Yuan, Risa H. Wechsler, Yunchong Wang, Mithi A. C. de los Reyes, Justin Myles, Antoine Rocher, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, David Brooks, Todd Claybaugh, Shaun Cole, Axel de la Macorra, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Julien Guy, Klaus Honscheid, Theodore Kisner, Michael Levi, Marc Manera, Aaron Meisner, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Jundan Nie, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Claire Poppett, Mehdi Rezaie, Ashley J. Ross, Graziano Rossi, Eusebio Sanchez, Michael Schubnel, Hee- Jong Seo, Gregory Tarlé, Benjamin Alan Weaver, Zhimin Zhou
   
   
10. [2308.10926] Symfind: Addressing the Fragility of Subhalo Finders and Revealing the Durability of Subhalos (Aug 21, 2023)
    Philip Mansfield, Elise Darragh-Ford, Yunchong Wang, Ethan O. Nadler, Risa H. Wechsler
    
    
11. [2306.06313] The DESI One-Percent Survey: Exploring A Generalized SHAM for Multiple Tracers with the UNIT Simulation (Jun 9, 2023)
    Jiaxi Yu, Cheng Zhao, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Allyson Brodzeller, Arnaud de Mattia, Jean-Paul Kneib, Alex Krolewski, Antoine Rocher, Ashley Ross, Yunchong Wang, Sihan Yuan, Hanyu Zhang, Rongpu Zhou, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, David Brooks, Kyle Dawson, Alex de la Macorra, Peter Doel, Kevin Fanning, Andreu Font-Ribera, Jaime Forero-Romero, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Klaus Honscheid, Robert Kehoe, Theodore Kisner, Anthony Kremin, Martin Landriau, Marc Manera, Paul Martini, Aaron Meisner, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Jundan Nie, Will Percival, Claire Poppett, Anand Raichoor, Graziano Rossi, Hee-Jong Seo, Gregory Tarlé, Zhimin Zhou, Hu Zou
    
    
12. [2210.04203] Baryonic Effects on Lagrangian Clustering and Angular Momentum Reconstruction (Oct 9, 2022)
    Ming-Jie Sheng, Hao-Ran Yu, Sijia Li, Shihong Liao, Min Du, Yunchong Wang, Peng Wang, Kun Xu, Shy Genel, Dimitrios Irodotou
    
    
13. [2209.02675] Symphony: Cosmological Zoom-in Simulation Suites over Four Decades of Host Halo Mass (Sep 6, 2022)
    Ethan O. Nadler, Philip Mansfield, Yunchong Wang, Xiaolong Du, Susmita Adhikari, Arka Banerjee, Andrew Benson, Elise Darragh-Ford, Yao-Yuan Mao, Sebastian Wagner-Carena, Risa H. Wechsler, Hao-Yi Wu
    
    
14. [2107.07147] Quenched, bulge-dominated, but dynamically cold galaxies in IllustrisTNG and their real-world counterparts (Jul 15, 2021)
    Shengdong Lu, Dandan Xu, Sen Wang, Yunchong Wang, Shude Mao, Xiaoyang Xia, Mark Vogelsberger, Lars Hernquist
    
    
15. [2011.01949] Hot and counter-rotating star-forming disk galaxies in IllustrisTNG and their real-world counterparts (Nov 3, 2020)
    Shengdong Lu, Dandan Xu, Yunchong Wang, Yanmei Chen, Ling Zhu, Shude Mao, Volker Springel, Jing Wang, Mark Vogelsberger, Lars Hernquist
    
    
16. [2005.01738] Star Formation in Massive Galaxies at Redshift $z \sim 0.5$ (May 4, 2020)
    Kun Xu, Chengze Liu, Yipeng Jing, Yunchong Wang, Shengdong Lu
    
    
17. [1906.00927] Redshift Evolution of the Fundamental Plane Relation in the IllustrisTNG Simulation (Jun 3, 2019)
    Shengdong Lu, Dandan Xu, Yunchong Wang, Shude Mao, Junqiang Ge, Volker Springel, Yuan Wang, Mark Vogelsberger, Naiman Jill, Lars Hernquist
    
    
18. [1903.09282] SDSS--IV MaNGA : The Inner Density Slopes of nearby galaxies (Mar 22, 2019)
    Ran Li, Hongyu Li, Shi Shao, Shengdong Lu, Kai Zhu, Chunxiang Wang, Liang Gao, Shude Mao, Aaron A. Dutton, Junqiang Ge, Yunchong Wang, Alexie Leauthaud, Zheng Zheng, Kevin Bundy, Joel R. Brownstein