Nianyi Chen

Postdoc Member at the IAS, Princeton, joint with MPA, Garching

My most up-to-date publications can be found on NASA ADS.

You can also find my publications on Google Scholar.

First-author papers

  1. Connecting Current and Future Dual Active Galactic Nucleus Searches to LISA and Pulsar Timing Array Gravitational-wave Detections
    ApJ, 1008, 89 (2026) · DOI · arXiv
  2. The Gravitational-wave Background from Massive Black Holes in the ASTRID Simulation
    ApJL, 991, L19 (2025) · DOI · arXiv
  3. MAGICS I. The First Few Orbits Encode the Fate of Seed Massive Black Hole Pairs
    OJAp, 7 (2024) · DOI · arXiv
  4. Flyby Galaxy Encounters with Multiple Black Holes Produce Star-forming Linear Features
    ApJL, 954, L2 (2023) · DOI · arXiv
  5. Properties and evolution of dual and offset AGN in the ASTRID simulation at $z \sim 2$
    MNRAS, 522, 1895 (2023) · DOI · arXiv
  6. Patchy Kinetic Sunyaev–Zel’dovich Effect with Controlled Reionization History and Morphology
    ApJ, 943, 138 (2023) · DOI · arXiv
  7. Massive black hole mergers with orbital information: predictions from the ASTRID simulation
    MNRAS, 514, 2220 (2022) · DOI · arXiv
  8. Dynamical friction modelling of massive black holes in cosmological simulations and effects on merger rate predictions
    MNRAS, 510, 531 (2022) · DOI · arXiv
  9. SCORCH. III. Analytical Models of Reionization with Varying Clumping Factors
    ApJ, 905, 132 (2020) · DOI · arXiv