Publications

2026

1. Published in RNAAS

   VLA Observations Confirm AT 2023mfm as an Off-nuclear Tidal Disruption Event

   Wenkai Li, Collin T. Christy, Kate D. Alexander, Itai Sfaradi, Xinya Huang, Ning Jiang, Tanmoy Laskar, Andrew Mummery, Noah Franz, Adelle J. Goodwin, Walter W. Golay, Raffaella Margutti, Ryan Chornock, Jiazheng Zhu, Sjoert van Velzen, Yvette Cendes, Wenbin Lu, and Jimmy Lynch

   Research Notes of the AAS, Jun 2026

   Presented at:

   • "Unveiling Hidden Off-nuclear Massive Black Holes through Tidal Disruption Events", Steward Science Symposium, Steward Observatory (2026).
   • "VLA Observations Confirm AT 2023mfm as an Off-nuclear TDE", Science Coffee, Steward Observatory (2026).
   • "VLA Observations Confirm AT 2023mfm as an Off-nuclear TDE", Coffee Break, USTC (2026).
   • "VLA Observations Confirm AT 2023mfm as an Off-nuclear TDE", TDE Multi-wavelength Observations and Full-process Simulations vol. 2, Liupanshui (2026).

   DOI arXiv
2. Published in ApJL

   Discovery of a Featureless Tidal Disruption Event at z ∼ 1 with the Wide Field Survey Telescope

   Jiazheng Zhu, Zelin Xu, Ning Jiang, Ji-an Jiang, Tinggui Wang, Yuhan Yao, Ryan Chornock, Erica Hammerstein, Yibo Wang, Min-Xuan Cai, Shifeng Huang, Wenkai Li, Mingxin Wu, Chichuan Jin, Jie Lin, Jianwei Lyu, Dezheng Meng, Weiyu Wu, Zhengyan Liu, Junhan Zhao, Ziqing Jia, Chengyi Wang, Lulu Fan, Xu Kong, Feng Li, Ming Liang, Jinling Tang, Hairen Wang, Jian Wang, Yongquan Xue, Ji Yang, Hongfei Zhang, Wen Zhao, and Qingfeng Zhu

   The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Jun 2026

   DOI

2025

1. arXiv preprint

   Inefficient Circularization, Delayed Stream-Disk Interaction and Reprocessing: A Five-Stage Model for the Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Tidal Disruption Event EP240222a

   Wenkai Li, Ning Jiang, Tinggui Wang, Rongfeng Shen, Erlin Qiao, Lixin Dai, Di Luo, Dongyue Li, Chichuan Jin, and Jiazheng Zhu

   arXiv, Dec 2025

   Presented at:

   • "Modeling the Unexpected Light Curves of IMBH-TDE EP240222a", TDEs and NTs in Crete vol. 2, Heraklion (2026).
   • "Modeling the Unexpected Light Curves of IMBH-TDE EP240222a (in Chinese)", TDE FORUM (seminar), online (2026).
   • "Modeling the Unexpected Light Curves of IMBH-TDE EP240222a", FLASH (seminar), NOIRLab (2025).
   • "What Can We Learn from IMBH-TDE EP240222a?", BigBoom (seminar), Steward Observatory (2025).
   • "IMBH-TDEs and dPSBs", Steward Science Symposium, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (2025).
   • "IMBH-TDEs", Excellent Undergraduate Research Projects in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University (2025).
   • "IMBH-TDEs", Symposium of the Honors Program in Fundamental Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China (2025).

   DOI Talk Talk (Chinese) Slides
2. Published in ApJL

   Ultraviolet Spectral Evidence for Ansky as a Slowly Evolving Featureless Tidal Disruption Event with Quasiperiodic Eruptions

   Jiazheng Zhu, Ning Jiang, Yibo Wang, Tinggui Wang, Luming Sun, Shiyan Zhong, Yuhan Yao, Ryan Chornock, Lixin Dai, Jianwei Lyu, Xinwen Shu, Christoffer Fremling, Erica Hammerstein, Shifeng Huang, Wenkai Li, and Bei You

   The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Nov 2025

   DOI