Sandy Yuan

First-authored papers

1. [2403.00915] Redshift evolution and covariances for joint lensing and clustering studies with DESI Y1 (Mar 1, 2024)
   Sihan Yuan, Chris Blake, Alex Krolewski, Johannes Lange, Jack Elvin-Poole, Alexie Leauthaud, Joseph DeRose, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, Gillian Beltz-Mohrmann, David Brooks, Todd Claybaugh, Axel de la Macorra, Peter Doel, Ni Putu Audita Placida Emas, Simone Ferraro, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Cristhian Garcia-Quintero, Enrique Gaztañaga, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Sven Heydenreich, Klaus Honscheid, Mustapha Ishak, Shahab Joudaki, Eric Jullo, Theodore Kisner, Anthony Kremin, Andrew Lambert, Martin Landriau, Marc Manera, Aaron Meisner, Ramon Miquel, Jundan Nie, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Claire Poppett, Anna Porredon, Mehdi Rezaie, Ashley J. Ross, Graziano Rossi, Rossana Ruggeri, Eusebio Sanchez, Christoph Saulder, Hee-Jong Seo, Joseph Harry Silber, Gregory Tarlé, Mariana Vargas-Magaña, Benjamin Alan Weaver, Enia Xhakaj, Zhimin Zhou, Hu Zou
   
   
2. [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
   
   
3. [2310.04501] Robust cosmological inference from non-linear scales with k-th nearest neighbor statistics (Oct 6, 2023)
   Sihan Yuan, Tom Abel, Risa H. Wechsler
   
   
4. [2306.06314] The DESI One-Percent Survey: Exploring the Halo Occupation Distribution of Luminous Red Galaxies and Quasi-Stellar Objects with AbacusSummit (Jun 9, 2023)
   Sihan Yuan, Hanyu Zhang, Ashley J. Ross, Jamie Donald-McCann, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Risa H. Wechsler, Zheng Zheng, Shadab Alam, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, Davide Bianchi, David Brooks, Axel de la Macorra, Kevin Fanning, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Klaus Honscheid, Mustapha Ishak, Robert Kehoe, James Lasker, Martin Landriau, Marc Manera, Paul Martini, Aaron Meisner, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Seshadri Nadathur, Jeffrey A. Newman, Jundan Nie, Will Percival, Claire Poppett, Antoine Rocher, Graziano Rossi, Eusebio Sanchez, Lado Samushia, Michael Schubnell, Hee-Jong Seo, Gregory Tarle, Benjamin Alan Weaver, Jiaxi Yu, Zhimin Zhou, Hu Zou
   
   
5. [2304.10565] 2D k-th nearest neighbor statistics: a highly informative probe of galaxy clustering (Apr 20, 2023)
   Sihan Yuan, Alvaro Zamora, Tom Abel
   
   
6. [2211.02068] Full forward model of galaxy clustering statistics with AbacusSummit lightcones (Nov 3, 2022)
   Sihan Yuan, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Tom Abel
   
   
7. [2203.11963] Stringent $σ_8$ constraints from small-scale galaxy clustering using a hybrid MCMC+emulator framework (Mar 22, 2022)
   Sihan Yuan, Lehman H. Garrison, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Risa H. Wechsler
   
   
8. [2202.12911] Illustrating galaxy-halo connection in the DESI era with IllustrisTNG (Feb 25, 2022)
   Sihan Yuan, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Sownak Bose, Daniel J. Eisenstein
   
   
9. [2110.11412] AbacusHOD: A highly efficient extended multi-tracer HOD framework and its application to BOSS and eBOSS data (Oct 21, 2021)
   Sihan Yuan, Lehman H. Garrison, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Sownak Bose, Daniel J. Eisenstein
   
   
10. [2010.04182] Evidence for galaxy assembly bias in BOSS CMASS redshift-space galaxy correlation function (Oct 8, 2020)
    Sihan Yuan, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Sownak Bose, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Hong Guo
    
    
11. [1907.05909] Can Assembly Bias Explain the Lensing Amplitude of the BOSS CMASS Sample in a Planck Cosmology? (Jul 12, 2019)
    Sihan Yuan, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Alexie Leauthaud
    
    
12. [1901.05019] Decorrelating the errors of the galaxy correlation function with compact transformation matrices (Jan 15, 2019)
    Sihan Yuan, Daniel J. Eisenstein
    
    
13. [1802.10115] Exploring the squeezed three-point galaxy correlation function with generalized halo occupation distribution models (Feb 27, 2018)
    Sihan Yuan, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Lehman H. Garrison
    
    
14. [1705.03464] Using galaxy pairs to investigate the three-point correlation function in the squeezed limit (May 9, 2017)
    Sihan Yuan, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Lehman H. Garrison
    
    
15. [1606.04976] Spectroscopic Identification of Type 2 Quasars at Z < 1 in SDSS-III/BOSS (Jun 15, 2016)
    Sihan Yuan, Michael A. Strauss, Nadia L. Zakamska
    
    
16. [1511.07060] The Physical Nature of the Most Metal-Poor Damped Lyman Alpha Systems (Nov 22, 2015)
    Sihan Yuan, Renyue Cen
    
    

Co-authored papers

1. [2510.25419] A Unified Photometric Redshift Calibration for Weak Lensing Surveys using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (Oct 29, 2025)
   Johannes U. Lange, Diana Blanco, Alexie Leauthaud, Angus Wright, Abigail Fisher, Joshua Ratajczak, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, Stephen Bailey, Davide Bianchi, Chris Blake, David Brooks, Todd Claybaugh, Andrei Cuceu, Kyle Dawson, Axel de la Macorra, Joseph DeRose, Arjun Dey, Peter Doel, Ni Putu Audita Placida Emas, Simone Ferraro, Andreu Font-Ribera, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Cristhian Garcia-Quintero, Enrique Gaztañaga, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Gaston Gutierrez, Sven Heydenreich, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Mustapha Ishak, Jorge Jimenez, Shahab Joudaki, Robert Kehoe, David Kirkby, Theodore Kisner, Anthony Kremin, Ofer Lahav, Claire Lamman, Martin Landriau, Laurent Le Guillou, Michael Levi, Leonel Medina Varela, Aaron Meisner, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Seshadri Nadathur, Jeffrey A. Newman, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Anna Porredon, Francisco Prada, Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols, Graziano Rossi, Rossana Ruggeri, Eusebio Sanchez, Christoph Saulder, David Schlegel, Michael Schubnell, David Sprayberry, Zechang Sun, Gregory Tarlé, Benjamin Alan Weaver, Sihan Yuan, Pauline Zarrouk, Hu Zou
   
   
2. [2510.24591] ReplicationBench: Can AI Agents Replicate Astrophysics Research Papers? (Oct 28, 2025)
   Christine Ye, Sihan Yuan, Suchetha Cooray, Steven Dillmann, Ian L. V. Roque, Dalya Baron, Philipp Frank, Sergio Martin-Alvarez, Nolan Koblischke, Frank J Qu, Diyi Yang, Risa Wechsler, Ioana Ciuca
   
   
3. [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
   
   
4. [2405.02252] A Parameter-Masked Mock Data Challenge for Beyond-Two-Point Galaxy Clustering Statistics (May 3, 2024)
   Beyond-2pt Collaboration, :, Elisabeth Krause, Yosuke Kobayashi, Andrés N. Salcedo, Mikhail M. Ivanov, Tom Abel, Kazuyuki Akitsu, Raul E. Angulo, Giovanni Cabass, Sofia Contarini, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, ChangHoon Hahn, Nico Hamaus, Donghui Jeong, Chirag Modi, Nhat-Minh Nguyen, Takahiro Nishimichi, Enrique Paillas, Marcos Pellejero Ibañez, Oliver H. E. Philcox, Alice Pisani, Fabian Schmidt, Satoshi Tanaka, Giovanni Verza, Sihan Yuan, Matteo Zennaro
   
   
5. [2404.04252] Bounds on galaxy stochasticity from halo occupation distribution modeling (Apr 5, 2024)
   Dylan Britt, Daniel Gruen, Oliver Friedrich, Sihan Yuan, Bernardita Ried Guachalla
   
   
6. [2310.16116] Precise Cosmological Constraints from BOSS Galaxy Clustering with a Simulation-Based Emulator of the Wavelet Scattering Transform (Oct 24, 2023)
   Georgios Valogiannis, Sihan Yuan, Cora Dvorkin
   
   
7. [2309.16541] Cosmological constraints from density-split clustering in the BOSS CMASS galaxy sample (Sep 28, 2023)
   Enrique Paillas, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, Will J. Percival, Seshadri Nadathur, Yan-Chuan Cai, Sihan Yuan, Florian Beutler, Arnaud de Mattia, Daniel Eisenstein, Daniel Forero-Sanchez, Nelson Padilla, Mathilde Pinon, Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider, Ariel G. Sánchez, Georgios Valogiannis, Pauline Zarrouk
   
   
8. [2309.16539] SUNBIRD: A simulation-based model for full-shape density-split clustering (Sep 28, 2023)
   Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, Enrique Paillas, Sihan Yuan, Yan-Chuan Cai, Seshadri Nadathur, Will J. Percival, Florian Beutler, Arnaud de Mattia, Daniel Eisenstein, Daniel Forero-Sanchez, Nelson Padilla, Mathilde Pinon, Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider, Ariel G. Sánchez, Georgios Valogiannis, Pauline Zarrouk
   
   
9. [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
   
   
10. [2306.06319] The DESI One-Percent survey: exploring the Halo Occupation Distribution of Emission Line Galaxies with AbacusSummit simulations (Jun 9, 2023)
    Antoine Rocher, Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider, Etienne Burtin, Sihan Yuan, Arnaud de Mattia, Ashley J. Ross, Jessica Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, Shadab Alam, Davide Bianchi, David Brooks, Shaun Cole, Kyle Dawson, Axel de la Macorra, Peter Doel, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Kevin Fanning, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Lehman H. Garrison, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez, Julien Guy, Boryana Hadzhiyska, ChangHoon Hahn, Klaus Honscheid, Theodore Kisner, Martin Landriau, James Lasker, Michael E. Levi, Marc Manera, Aaron Meisner, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Eva-Maria Mueller, Jeffrey A. Newman, Jundan Nie, Will J. Percival, Claire Poppett, Fei Qin, Graziano Rossi, Lado Samushia, Eusebio Sanchez, David Schlegel, Michael Schubnell, Hee-Jong Seo, Gregory Tarlé, Mariana Vargas-Magaña, Benjamin A. Weaver, Jiaxi Yu, Hanyu Zhang, Zheng Zheng, Zhimin Zhou, Hu Zou
    
    
11. [2306.06318] PROVABGS: The Probabilistic Stellar Mass Function of the BGS One-Percent Survey (Jun 9, 2023)
    ChangHoon Hahn, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Shadab Alam, Steven Ahlen, David Brooks, Shaun Cole, Axel de la Macorra, Peter Doel, Andreu A. Font-Ribera, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Klaus Honscheid, Song Huang, Theodore Kisner, Anthony Kremin, Martin Landriau, Marc Manera, Aaron Meisner, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Jundan Nie, Claire Poppett, Graziano Rossi, Amélie Saintonge, Eusebio Sanchez, Christoph Saulder, Michael Schubnell, Hee-Jong Seo, Małgorzata Siudek, Federico Speranza, Gregory Tarlé, Benjamin A. Weaver, Risa H. Wechsler, Sihan Yuan, Zhimin Zhou, Hu Zou
    
    
12. [2305.11935] Synthetic light cone catalogues of modern redshift and weak lensing surveys with AbacusSummit (May 19, 2023)
    Boryana Hadzhiyska, Sihan Yuan, Chris Blake, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, David Brooks, Todd Claybaugh, Axel de la Macorra, Peter Doel, Ni Putu Audita Emas, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Cristhian Garcia-Quintero, Mustapha Ishak, Shahab Joudaki, Eric Jullo, Robert Kehoe, Theodore Kisner, Anthony Kremin, Alex Krolewski, Martin Landriau, Johannes Ulf Lange, Marc Manera, Ramon Miquel, Jundan Nie, Claire Poppett, Anna Porredon, Graziano Rossi, Rossana Ruggeri, Christopher Saulder, Michael Schubnell, Gregory Tarlé, Benjamin Alan Weaver, Enia Xhakaj, Zhimin Zhou
    
    
13. [2304.08427] First Detection of the BAO Signal from Early DESI Data (Apr 17, 2023)
    Jeongin Moon, David Valcin, Michael Rashkovetskyi, Christoph Saulder, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, Shadab Alam, Stephen Bailey, Charles Baltay, Robert Blum, David Brooks, Etienne Burtin, Edmond Chaussidon, Kyle Dawson, Axel de la Macorra, Arnaud de Mattia, Govinda Dhungana, Daniel Eisenstein, Brenna Flaugher, Andreu Font-Ribera, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Cristhian Garcia-Quintero, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Julien Guy, Malik Muhammad Sikandar Hanif, Klaus Honscheid, Mustapha Ishak, Robert Kehoe, Sumi Kim, Theodore Kisner, Anthony Kremin, Martin Landriau, Laurent Le Guillou, Michael Levi, Marc Manera, Paul Martini, Patrick McDonald, Aaron Meisner, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Adam Myers, Seshadri Nadathur, Richard Neveux, Jeffrey A. Newman, Jundan Nie, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Will Percival, Alejandro Pérez Fernández, Claire Poppett, Francisco Prada, Anand Raichoor, Ashley J. Ross, Graziano Rossi, Lado Samushia, David Schlegel, Hee-Jong Seo, Gregory Tarlé, Mariana Vargas Magana, Andrei Variu, Benjamin Alan Weaver, Martin J. White, Christophe Yèche, Sihan Yuan, Cheng Zhao, Rongpu Zhou, Zhimin Zhou, Hu Zou
    
    
14. [2110.11409] Constructing high-fidelity halo merger trees in AbacusSummit (Oct 21, 2021)
    Sownak Bose, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Lehman H. Garrison, Sihan Yuan
    
    
15. [1909.10527] A Hybrid Deep Learning Approach to Cosmological Constraints From Galaxy Redshift Surveys (Sep 23, 2019)
    Michelle Ntampaka, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Sihan Yuan, Lehman H. Garrison
    
    
16. [1312.4948] A new light on 21 cm intensity fluctuations from the dark ages (Dec 17, 2013)
    Yacine Ali-Haïmoud, P. Daniel Meerburg, Sihan Yuan