Publications

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

   Dec 2025

   Presented at:

   • "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

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