ESC

Publications

My papers ask what galaxies were doing when the Universe was young — and whether apparently distant objects really are as distant as they look. This page highlights first-author work from my October 2026 CV. For a current, complete list of co-authored work, see my NASA ADS record. Manuscripts still under internal review are omitted.

Submitted manuscripts

  1. 2026
    Liu, F.-Y., McLeod, D. J., Chen, X., & others. (2026). The Ultracool Galactic Frontier in JWST Extragalactic Surveys: Distant Parallax of an Extremely Cold Y Dwarf. Submitted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
    @unpublished{liu2026ydwarf,
  author = {Liu, F.-Y. and McLeod, D. J. and Chen, X. and others},
  title = {The Ultracool Galactic Frontier in JWST Extragalactic Surveys: Distant Parallax of an Extremely Cold Y Dwarf},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Submitted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}
}

Published and accepted journal articles

  1. 2026
    Liu, F.-Y., McLeod, D. J., Sutlieff, B. J., & others. (2026). A clear detection of proper motion confirms that the claimed z approximately 32 galaxy candidate, “Capotauro”, is a very cold brown dwarf. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Accepted.
    arXiv 
    @article{liu2026capotauro,
  author = {Liu, F.-Y. and McLeod, D. J. and Sutlieff, B. J. and others},
  title = {A clear detection of proper motion confirms that the claimed z approximately 32 galaxy candidate, ``Capotauro'', is a very cold brown dwarf},
  journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Accepted},
  arxiv = {2608.07461}
}
  2. 2026
    Liu, F.-Y., Dunlop, J. S., McLure, R. J., & others. (2026). JWST PRIMER: A deep JWST study of all ALMA-detected galaxies in PRIMER COSMOS – dust-obscured star-formation history back to z approximately 7. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 545, 1961.
    arXiv 
    @article{liu2026primer,
  author = {Liu, F.-Y. and Dunlop, J. S. and McLure, R. J. and others},
  title = {JWST PRIMER: A deep JWST study of all ALMA-detected galaxies in PRIMER COSMOS -- dust-obscured star-formation history back to z approximately 7},
  journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  volume = {545},
  pages = {1961},
  year = {2026},
  arxiv = {2503.07774}
}
  3. 2024
    Liu, F.-Y., Dai, Y. S., Omont, A., & others. (2024). Dust and Cold Gas Properties of Starburst HyLIRG Quasars at z approximately 2.5. The Astrophysical Journal, 964, 136.
    DOI 
    @article{liu2024quasars,
  author = {Liu, F.-Y. and Dai, Y. S. and Omont, A. and others},
  title = {Dust and Cold Gas Properties of Starburst HyLIRG Quasars at z approximately 2.5},
  journal = {The Astrophysical Journal},
  volume = {964},
  pages = {136},
  year = {2024},
  doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/ad24fe}
}
  4. 2023
    Liu, F.-Y., Dai, Y., Wu, J.-W., & others. (2023). CO Emission of Dust-Rich Broad-Emission-Line Quasars. Progress in Astronomy, 41, 529. In Chinese.
    DOI 
    @article{liu2023co,
  author = {Liu, F.-Y. and Dai, Y. and Wu, J.-W. and others},
  title = {CO Emission of Dust-Rich Broad-Emission-Line Quasars},
  journal = {Progress in Astronomy},
  volume = {41},
  pages = {529},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {10.3969/j.issn.1000-8349.2023.04.05},
  note = {In Chinese}
}
  5. 2019
    Liu, F.-Y., Mai, Y.-F., Wu, W.-Y., & others. (2019). Probing a regular non-minimal Einstein-Yang-Mills black hole with gravitational lensings. Physics Letters B, 795, 475.
    DOI 
    @article{liu2019lensing,
  author = {Liu, F.-Y. and Mai, Y.-F. and Wu, W.-Y. and others},
  title = {Probing a regular non-minimal Einstein-Yang-Mills black hole with gravitational lensings},
  journal = {Physics Letters B},
  volume = {795},
  pages = {475},
  year = {2019},
  doi = {10.1016/j.physletb.2019.06.052}
}

Selected collaborations

These are a few papers in which I contributed as a co-author. The ADS record gives the full author lists and publication details.