Publications

  1. Ryan E. Keeley, Anna M. Nierenberg, Daniel Gilman, Charles Gannon, Simon Birrer, Tommaso Treu, Andrew J. Benson, Xiaolong Du, K.N. Abazajian, T. Anguita, V.N. Bennert, S.G. Djorgovski, K.K. Gupta, S.F. Hoenig, A. Kusenko, C. Lemon, M. Malkan, V. Motta, L.A. Moustakas, M.S.H. Oh, D. Sluse, D. Stern, and R.H. Wechsler,
    JWST Lensed quasar dark matter survey II: Strongest gravitational lensing limit on the dark matter free streaming length to date,
    arXiv:2405.01620 [astro-ph.CO].

  2. Niusha Ahvazi, Andrew Benson, Laura V. Sales, Ethan O. Nadler, Sachi Weerasooriya, Xiaolong Du, and Mia Sauda Bovill,
    A comprehensive model for the formation and evolution of the faintest Milky Way dwarf satellites,
    Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 529, 3387 (2024),
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae761,
    arXiv:2308.13599 [astro-ph.GA].

  3. Xiaolong Du, Andrew Benson, Zhichao Carton Zeng, Tommaso Treu, Annika H.G. Peter, Charlie Mace, Fangzhou Jiang, Shengqi Yang, Charles Gannon, Daniel Gilman, Anna.M. Nierenberg, and Ethan O. Nadler,
    Tidal evolution of cored and cuspy dark matter halos,
    Accepted by Phys. Rev. D,
    arXiv:2403.09597 [astro-ph.GA].

  4. Charlie Mace, Zhichao Carton Zeng, Annika H.G. Peter, Xiaolong Du, Shengqi Yang, Andrew Benson, and Mark Vogelsberger,
    Convergence Tests of Self-Interacting Dark Matter Simulations,
    arXiv:2402.01604 [astro-ph.GA].

  5. Zhichao Carton Zeng, Annika H. G. Peter, Xiaolong Du, Shengqi Yang, Andrew Benson, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, Fangzhou Jiang, Charlie Mace, and R. Benton Metcalf,
    Till the core collapses: the evolution and properties of self-interacting dark matter subhalos,
    arXiv:2310.09910 [astro-ph.GA].

  6. Shengqi Yang, Fangzhou Jiang, Andrew Benson, Yi-Ming Zhong, Charlie Mace, Xiaolong Du, Zhichao Carton Zeng, Annika H. G. Peter, and Moritz S. Fischer,
    A quantitative comparison between velocity dependent SIDM cross sections constrained by the gravothermal and isothermal models,
    arXiv:2305.05067 [astro-ph.CO].

  7. Jiajun Chen, Xiaolong Du, Mingzhen Zhou, Andrew Benson, and David J. E. Marsh,
    Gravitational Bose-Einstein Condensation of Vector/Hidden Photon Dark Matter,
    Phys. Rev. D 108, 083021 (2023),
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.083021,
    arXiv:2304.01965 [astro-ph.HE].

  8. Miguel Escudero, Charis Kaur Pooni, Malcolm Fairbairn, Diego Blas, Xiaolong Du, and David J. E. Marsh,
    Axion Star Explosions: A New Source for Axion Indirect Detection,
    Phys. Rev. D 109, 043018 (2024),
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.043018,
    arXiv:2302.10206 [hep-ph].

  9. Xiaolong Du, David J. E. Marsh, Miguel Escudero, Andrew Benson, Diego Blas, Charis Kaur Pooni, and Malcolm Fairbairn,
    Soliton Merger Rates and Enhanced Axion Dark Matter Decay,
    Phys. Rev. D 109, 043019 (2024),
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.043019,
    arXiv:2301.09769 [astro-ph.CO].

  10. Ethan O. Nadler, Andrew Benson, Trey Driskell, Xiaolong Du, and Vera Gluscevic,
    Growing the first galaxies’ merger trees,
    Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 521, 3201-3220 (2023),
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad666,
    arXiv:2212.08584 [astro-ph.GA].

  11. Salome Mtchedlidze, Paola Domínguez-Fernández, Xiaolong Du, Wolfram Schmidt, Axel Brandenburg, Jens Niemeyer, and Tina Kahniashvili,
    Inflationary and Phase-transitional Primordial Magnetic Fields in Galaxy Clusters,
    Astrophys. J. 944, 100 (2023),
    DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acb04d,
    arXiv:2210.10183 [astro-ph.CO].

  12. Andrew J. Benson and Xiaolong Du,
    Tidal tracks and artificial disruption of cold dark matter haloes,
    Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 517, 1398-1406 (2022),
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac2750,
    arXiv:2206.01842 [astro-ph.GA].

  13. 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, and Hao-Yi Wu,
    Symphony: Cosmological Zoom-in Simulation Suites over Four Decades of Host Halo Mass,
    Astrophys. J. 945, 159 (2023),
    DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acb68c,
    arXiv:2209.02675 [astro-ph.CO].

  14. Fangzhou Jiang, Andrew Benson, Philip F. Hopkins, Oren Slone, Mariangela Lisanti, Manoj Kaplinghat, Annika H.G. Peter, Zhichao Carton Zeng, Xiaolong Du, Shengqi Yang, and Xuejian Shen,
    A semi-analytic study of self-interacting dark-matter haloes with baryons,
    Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 521, 4630 (2023),
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad705,
    arXiv:2206.12425 [astro-ph.CO].

  15. Alexander Laroche, Daniel Gilman, Xinyu Li, Jo Bovy, and Xiaolong Du,
    Quantum fluctuations masquerade as halos: Bounds on ultra-light dark matter from quadruply-imaged quasars,
    Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 517, 1867 (2022),
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac2677,
    arXiv:2206.11269 [astro-ph.CO].

  16. Shengqi Yang, Xiaolong Du, Zhichao Carton Zeng, Andrew Benson, Fangzhou Jiang, Ethan O. Nadler, and Annika H.G. Peter,
    Gravothermal Solutions of SIDM Halos: Mapping from Constant to Velocity-dependent Cross Section,
    Astrophys. J. 946, 47 (2023),
    DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acbd49,
    arXiv:2205.02957 [astro-ph.CO].

  17. Zhichao Carton Zeng, Annika H. G. Peter, Xiaolong Du, Andrew Benson, Stacy Kim, Fangzhou Jiang, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, and Mark Vogelsberger,
    Core-collapse, evaporation and tidal effects: the life story of a self-interacting dark matter subhalo,
    Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 513, 4845 (2022),
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac1094,
    arXiv:2110.00259 [astro-ph.CO].

  18. Salome Mtchedlidze, Paola Domínguez-Fernández, Xiaolong Du, Axel Brandenburg, Tina Kahniashvili, Shane O’Sullivan, Wolfram Schmidt, and Marcus Brüggen,
    Evolution of primordial magnetic fields during large-scale structure formation,
    Astrophys. J. 929, 127 (2022),
    DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac5960,
    arXiv:2109.13520 [astro-ph.CO].

  19. Jiajun Chen, Xiaolong Du, Erik Lentz, and David J. E. Marsh,
    Relaxation times for Bose-Einstein condensation by self-interaction and gravity,
    Phys. Rev. D 106, 023009 (2022),
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.023009,
    arXiv:2109.11474 [astro-ph.CO].

  20. Yang Bai, Xiaolong Du, and Yuta Hamada,
    Diluted Axion Star Collisions with Neutron Stars,
    JCAP 01, 041 (2022),
    DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2022/01/041,
    arXiv:2109.01222 [astro-ph.CO].

  21. Avishai Dekel, Jonathan Freundlich, Fangzhou Jiang, Sharon Lapiner, Andreas Burkert, Daniel Ceverino, Xiaolong Du, Reinhard Genzel, and Joel Primack,
    Core formation in high-z massive haloes: heating by post-compaction satellites and response to AGN outflows,
    Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 508, 999 (2021),
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2416,
    arXiv:2106.01378 [astro-ph.GA].

  22. Ethan O. Nadler, Simon Birrer, Daniel Gilman, Risa H. Wechsler, Xiaolong Du, Andrew Benson, Anna M. Nierenberg, and Tommaso Treu,
    Dark Matter Constraints from a Unified Analysis of Strong Gravitational Lenses and Milky Way Satellite Galaxies,
    Astrophys. J. 917, 7 (2021),
    DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abf9a3,
    arXiv:2101.07810 [astro-ph.CO].

  23. Jiajun Chen, Xiaolong Du, Erik W. Lentz, David J.E. Marsh, and Jens C. Niemeyer,
    New insights into the formation and growth of boson stars in dark matter halos,
    Phys. Rev. D 104, 083022 (2021), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.083022, arXiv:2011.01333 [astro-ph.CO].

  24. Fangzhou Jiang, Avishai Dekel, Jonathan Freundlich, Frank C. van den Bosch, Sheridan B. Green, Philip F. Hopkins, Andrew Benson, and Xiaolong Du, SatGen: a semi-analytical satellite galaxy generator – I. The model and its application to Local-Group satellite statistics, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 502, 621 (2021), DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa4034, arXiv:2005.05974 [astro-ph.GA].

  25. Shengqi Yang, Xiaolong Du, Andrew J. Benson, Anthony R. Pullen, and Annika H. G. Peter,
    A new calibration method of sub-halo orbital evolution for semi-analytic models,
    Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 498, 3902 (2020),
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2496,
    arXiv:2003.10646 [astro-ph.CO].

  26. Daniel Gilman, Xiaolong Du, Andrew Benson, Simon Birrer, Anna Nierenberg, and Tommaso Treu,
    Constraints on the mass-concentration relation of cold dark matter halos with 11 strong gravitational lenses,
    Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 492, L12 (2020),
    DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slz173,
    arXiv:1909.02573 [astro-ph.CO].

  27. Daniel Gilman, Simon Birrer, Anna Nierenberg, Tommaso Treu, Xiaolong Du, and Andrew Benson,
    Warm dark matter chills out: constraints on the halo mass function and the free-streaming length of dark matter with 8 quadruple-image strong gravitational lenses,
    Mon. Not. Roy.Astron. Soc. 491, 6077 (2020),
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz3480,
    arXiv:1908.06983 [astro-ph.CO].

  28. Yuan Zhong, Xiao-Long Du, Zhou-Chao Jiang, Yu-Xiao Liu, and Yong-Qiang Wang,
    Collision of two kinks with inner structure,
    JHEP 02, 153 (2020),
    DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2020)153,
    arXiv:1906.02920 [hep-th].

  29. Xiaolong Du, Bodo Schwabe, Jens C. Niemeyer, and David Buerger,
    Tidal disruption of fuzzy dark matter subhalo cores,
    Phys. Rev. D 97, 063507 (2018),
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.063507,
    arXiv:1801.04864 [astro-ph.GA].

  30. Ke Yang, Yu-Xiao Liu, Bin Guo, and Xiaolong Du, Scalar perturbations of Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld braneworld, Phys. Rev. D 96, 064039 (2017), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.064039 arXiv:1706.04818 [hep-th].

  31. Xiaolong Du, Christoph Behrens, Jens C. Niemeyer, and Bodo Schwabe,
    Core-halo mass relation of ultralight axion dark matter from merger history,
    Phys. Rev. D 95, 043519 (2017),
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.043519,
    arXiv:1609.09414 [astro-ph.GA].

  32. Xiaolong Du, Christoph Behrens, and Jens C. Niemeyer,
    Substructure of fuzzy dark matter haloes,
    Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 465, 941 (2017),
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2724,
    arXiv:1608.02575 [astro-ph.CO].

  33. Xiaolong Du, Ke Yang, Xin-He Meng, and Yu-Xiao Liu,
    Large scale structure formation in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity,
    Phys. Rev. D 90, 044054 (2014),
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.044054,
    arXiv:1403.0083 [gr-qc].

  34. Xiang-Nan Zhou, Xiaolong Du, Ke Yang, and Yu-Xiao Liu,
    Dirac dynamical resonance states around Schwarzschild black holes,
    Phys. Rev. D 89, 043006 (2014),
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.043006,
    arXiv:1308.2863 [gr-qc].

  35. Ke Yang, Xiaolong Du, and Yu-Xiao Liu,
    Linear perturbations in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity,
    Phys. Rev. D 88, 124037 (2013),
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.124037,
    arXiv:1307.2969 [gr-qc].

  36. Ke Yang, Yu-Xiao Liu, Yuan Zhong, Xiaolong Du, and Shao-Wen Wei,
    Gravity localization and mass hierarchy in scalar-tensor branes,
    Phys. Rev. D 86, 127502 (2012),
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.127502,
    arXiv:1212.2735 [hep-th].

  37. Xin-He Meng and Xiaolong Du,
    A Specific Case of Generalized Einstein-aether Theories,
    Commun. Theor. Phys. 57, 227 (2012),
    DOI: 10.1088/0253-6102/57/2/12,
    arXiv:1109.0823 [astro-ph.CO].