Hanyuan Zhang

Employment

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Education

• University of Cambridge Ph.D. in Astronomy
  2023 - Present
• University of Cambridge MASt in Astrophysics
  2022 - 2023
• Imperial College London BSc in Physics with Theoretical Physics
  2019 - 2022

Projects & Funding

• tbc Science and Technology Facilities Council
  2023 - 2027

Publications (21)

• Self-interacting dark matter promotes bar formation in disc galaxies
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2026 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stag1847
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• The Disrupted Chemical Enrichment History of the Milky Way Driven by Gas Accretion
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2026 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae915f
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• Bar-induced migration of ω Centauri away from Gaia–Sausage–Enceladus
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2026 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stag1449
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• Orbital migration and heating history of the Galactic disc: a transition between the bimodal discs
  Hanyuan Zhang, Vasily A Belokurov, Jason L. Sanders +7 more
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2026 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stag1406
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• Hide and seek with Gaia: Detectability of predicted thin-disc metal-rich RR Lyrae binaries in Gaia DR3 and DR4
  Astronomy & Astrophysics 2026 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202659978
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• Constraining the population of dark matter halo shapes using hierarchical inference with extragalactic stellar streams
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2026 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stag1161
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• Enhanced rates of stellar radial migration in gas-rich discs at high redshift
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2026 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stag1082
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• SchwarMAX: a GPU-friendly Schwarzschild orbit-superposition modelling framework
  arXiv e-prints 2026
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• On the connection between nitrogen-enhanced field stars and the Galactic globular clusters
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2026 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf2272
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• STRRINGS: STReams in Residual Images of Nearby GalaxieS
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf1647
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• Revealing the ages of metal-rich RR Lyrae via kinematic label transfer
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf1789
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• Thick-to-thin disc transition and gas disc shrinking induced by the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus merger
  Natsuki Funakoshi, Daisuke Kawata, Jason L. Sanders +3 more
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf1632
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• Dynamical streams in the local stellar halo
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf965
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• Observational Constraints of Radial Migration in the Galactic Disk Driven by the Slowing Bar
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2025 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/adc261
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• The ones that got away: chemical tagging of globular cluster-origin stars with Gaia BP/RP spectra
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2689
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• Deciphering the Milky Way disc formation time encrypted in the bar chrono-kinematics
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2546
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• Kinematics and dynamics of the Galactic bar revealed by Gaia long-period variables
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2023
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• On the existence of a very metal-poor disc in the Milky Way
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1887
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• The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey - VIII. Characterizing the orbital properties of the ancient, very metal-poor inner Milky Way
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1049
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• The Pristine survey -- XXIII. Data Release 1 and an all-sky metallicity catalogue based on Gaia DR3 BP/RP spectro-photometry
  arXiv e-prints 2023 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2308.01344
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