About me

I am a third-year Ph.D. student in the Physics Department at the University of Michigan. My research interest is in theoretical cosmology, with a particular emphasis on both data-driven cosmology and the construction and investigation of cosmological models. My advisors are Prof. Dragan Huterer and Prof. Camille Avestruz.

I got my bachelor degree from University of Michigan, where I pursued a double major in Physics and Astrophysics, with a minor in Philosophy. I am broadly interested in understanding the origin of the universe. In particular, I work on both theoretical and observational perspectives to uncover the nature of dark energy.

Research

Current Work

Currently, I am working on initial conditions of Horndeski theory and the study of dark sirens. Additionally, I am actively involving with data analysis in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey collobraiton. I contributed to the cosmological parameter estimation in DESI.


BAO Analysis in Modified-Gravity Models

I have studied the robustness of the standard baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) analysis in the modified-gravity (Horndeski) models. Our findings showed negligible bias in the BAO compression analysis when applied to data in the modified-gravity models.

J. PAN, D. Huterer, F. Andrade-Oliveira and C. Avestruz, Compressed baryon acoustic oscillation analysis is robust to modified-gravity models, J. Cosmology Astropart. Phys. (2024) 051 [2312.05177].


Star Clusters

I have worked on star clusters with Prof. Eric Bell. We've investigated the M81 globular cluster system. We found evidence for coherent velocity structure in its system, with a number of clusters clearly being associated with the accretion of M82 into the M81 group.

J. PAN, E. F. Bell, A. Smercina, P. Price, C. T. Slater, J. Bailin et al., New globular cluster candidates in the M81 group, MNRAS 515 (2022) 48 [2206.07251].


Solar System Objects

I've wroked with Prof. David Gerdes and Dr. Ed Lin in the study of Jupiter Trojans. We found Trojans' colors become less red with fainter absolute magnitudes in the Dark Energy Survey data, further supporting the color-size correlation.

J. PAN, H. W. Lin, D. W. Gerdes, K. J. Napier, J. Wang, T. M. C. Abbott et al., Photometric Properties of Jupiter Trojans Detected by the Dark Energy Survey, PSJ 3 (2022) 269.

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