Publications

Selected publications

• 2026

  John M. Mehlhaff, Alexander Y. Chen, Martin Luepker & Yajie Yuan

  Collisionless Accretion of Finite-Angular-Momentum Plasma onto a Spinning Black Hole

  arXiv 2602.22168

• 2025

  Dominic Bernardi, Yajie Yuan & Alexander Y. Chen

  Global Kinetic Simulations of Monster Shocks and Their Emission

  Physical Review Letters , 135, 265201

• 2025

  Martin Luepker, Yajie Yuan & Alexander Y. Chen

  Stable Collisionless Tori around Kerr Black Holes

  The Astrophysical Journal , 996, 75

• 2025

  Alexander Y. Chen, Yajie Yuan & Dominic Bernardi

  Alfvén Wave Mode Conversion in Neutron Star Magnetospheres: A Semianalytic Approach

  The Astrophysical Journal , 987, 42

• 2025

  Yajie Yuan, Alexander Y. Chen & Martin Luepker

  Physics of Pair-producing Gaps in Black Hole Magnetospheres: Two-dimensional General Relativistic Particle-in-cell Simulations

  The Astrophysical Journal , 985, 159

• 2025

  Alexander Y. Chen, Martin Luepker & Yajie Yuan

  Introducing APERTURE: A GPU-based General Relativistic Particle-in-Cell Simulation Framework

  arXiv 2503.04558

• 2025

  Dominic Bernardi, Yajie Yuan & Alexander Y. Chen

  Alfvén Wave Conversion to Low Frequency Fast Magnetosonic Waves in Magnetar Magnetospheres

  The Astrophysical Journal , 980, 222

• 2022

  Alexander Y. Chen, Yajie Yuan, Xinyu Li & Jens F. Mahlmann

  Propagation of a Strong Fast Magnetosonic Wave in the Magnetosphere of a Neutron Star

  arXiv 2210.13506

• 2022

  Yajie Yuan, Andrei M. Beloborodov, Alexander Y. Chen, Yuri Levin, Elias R. Most & Alexander A. Philippov

  Magnetar Bursts Due to Alfvén Wave Nonlinear Breakout

  The Astrophysical Journal , 933, 174

• 2022

  Alexander Y. Chen, Yajie Yuan, Andrei M. Beloborodov & Xinyu Li

  Relativistic Alfvén Waves Entering Charge-starvation in the Magnetospheres of Neutron Stars

  The Astrophysical Journal , 929, 31

• 2021

  Yajie Yuan, Yuri Levin, Ashley Bransgrove & Alexander Philippov

  Alfvén wave mode conversion in pulsar magnetospheres

  The Astrophysical Journal , 908, 176

• 2020

  Yajie Yuan, Andrei M. Beloborodov, Alexander Y. Chen & Yuri Levin

  Plasmoid Ejection by Alfvén Waves and the Fast Radio Bursts from SGR 1935+2154

  The Astrophysical Journal Letters , 900, L21

• 2020

  Alexander Y. Chen & Yajie Yuan

  Physics of Pair Producing Gaps in Black Hole Magnetospheres. II. General Relativity

  The Astrophysical Journal , 895, 121

• 2020

  Alexander Y. Chen, Yajie Yuan & Georgios Vasilopoulos

  A Numerical Model for the Multiwavelength Lightcurves of PSR J0030+0451

  The Astrophysical Journal Letters , 893, L38

• 2019

  Yajie Yuan, Anatoly Spitkovsky, Roger D. Blandford & Dan R. Wilkins

  Black hole magnetosphere with small-scale flux tubes - II. Stability and dynamics

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 487, 4114

• 2019

  Yajie Yuan, Roger D. Blandford & Dan R. Wilkins

  Black hole magnetosphere with small-scale flux tubes

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 484, 4920

• 2018

  Alexander Y. Chen, Yajie Yuan & Huan Yang

  Physics of Pair Producing Gaps in Black Hole Magnetospheres

  The Astrophysical Journal Letters , 863, L31

• 2017

  R. Blandford, Y. Yuan, M. Hoshino & L. Sironi

  Magnetoluminescence

  Space Science Reviews , 207, 291–317

• 2016

  Yajie Yuan, Krzysztof Nalewajko, Jonathan Zrake, William E. East & Roger D. Blandford

  Kinetic Study of Radiation-reaction-limited Particle Acceleration During the Relaxation of Unstable Force-free Equilibria

  The Astrophysical Journal , 828, 92