Yuan Chen

Employment

• MPE Postdoc
  2025 - Present

Education

• Leiden Observatory PhD in Astronomy with Ewine van Dishoeck and Harold Linnartz
  2021 - 2025
• Leiden University MSc in Astronomy (cum laude)
  2019 - 2021
• Peking University BSc in astronomy
  2015 - 2019

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (25)

• Systematic quantification of weak COM ice bands in protostars with JWST
  46th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 1-9 August 2026
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• Probing the Ubiquity of Complex Ices in Protostars with JWST: The First Systematic Quantification of Weak Ice Bands between 6.8 and 7.9 μm
  Y. Chen, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, K. Slavicinska +18 more
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2026 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae7a70
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• JOYS+: Analyses of OCN-, N2O, NO, and complex cyanides in ices
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2026 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202557830
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• JOYS: Launch and destruction of dust in protostellar jets: The case of BHR71-IRS1 with JWST MIRI
  Astronomy and Astrophysics 2026 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202558711
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• JOYS: Linking the molecular ice and gas phase composition toward the high-mass hot core IRAS 18089–1732
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2026 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202558615
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• JOYS: Unlocking accretion-rate diagnostics for high-mass protostars using JWST/MIRI HI lines
  Astronomy and Astrophysics 2026 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202558585
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• Expanding the Ice Inventory of NGC 1333 IRAS 2A with INDRA Using JWST Observations: Tracing Organic Refractories and Beyond
  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ae112f
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• Probing the evolution of oxygen-bearing complex organic molecules (O-COMs) from ice to gas
  Towards New Frontiers: The Astrochemical Journey From Young Stellar Nurseries to Exoplanets 2025 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17108772
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• Sulfur oxides tracing streamers and shocks at low-mass protostellar disk–envelope interfaces
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2025 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202554186
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• JWST Observations of Young protoStars (JOYS): Overview of program and early results
  Astronomy and Astrophysics 2025 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202554444
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• HDO Ice Detected toward an Isolated Low-mass Protostar with JWST
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2025 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/addb45
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• CoCCoA: Complex Chemistry in hot Cores with ALMA
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2025 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202453389
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• Bridge the gas and ice of complex organic molecules in high-mass protostars
  JWST Proposal. Cycle 4 2025
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• JWST Observations of Young protoStars (JOYS)
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2024 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202451967
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• JOYS+: The link between the ice and gas of complex organic molecules
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2024 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202450706
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• JWST Observations of Young protoStars (JOYS). Overview of gaseous molecular emission and absorption in low-mass protostars
  arXiv e-prints 2024 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2410.01636
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• JWST detections of amorphous and crystalline HDO ice toward massive protostars
  K. Slavicinska, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Łukasz Tychoniec +19 more
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2024 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449785
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• JWST Observations of Young protoStars (JOYS). Linked accretion and ejection in a Class I protobinary system
  Astronomy and Astrophysics 2024 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348889
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• Tracing complex organic molecules (COMs) from ice to gas with JWST and ALMA
  EAS2024, European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2024
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• JWST Observations of Young protoStars (JOYS+): Detecting icy complex organic molecules and ions. I. CH4, SO2, HCOO−, OCN−, H2CO, HCOOH, CH3CH2OH, CH3CHO, CH3OCHO, and CH3COOH
  Astronomy and Astrophysics 2024 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348427
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