Wen Sun

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Graduate Student

Peking University

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Email: sunwen@stu.pku.edu.cn

My name is Wen Sun (孙文). I mainly focus on the formation and evolution of galaxy morphology, especially bulges.

Interests

• Galaxy evolution
• Galaxy morphology
• Galatic bulge
• Coevolution of galaxy and SMBH

Technical Expertise

• Simulations: CGS→HST/JWST mock imaging
• Analysis: 2D decomposition (GALFIT, GALFITM, GALFITS)
• Programming: Python (Astropy, Photutils)
• Surveys: CGS, EGS, CEERS

Education

• PhD in Astrophysics, 2021-Present
  • Peking University
  • Advisor: Prof. Luis C. Ho
• BSc in Astrophysics, 2021
  • Beijing Normal University

Publications

• Wen Sun*; Luis C. Ho; Ming-Yang Zhuang; Chao Ma; Changhao Chen; Ruancun Li: The Structure and Morphology of Galaxies during the Epoch of Reionization Revealed by JWST, 2024, The Astrophysical Journal, 960, 104
• Bingcheng Jin; Luis C. Ho; Wen Sun*: A High Incidence of Central Star Formation Inferred from the Color Gradients of Galaxies at z>4, 2024, The Astrophysical Journal, submitted (arXiv: 2412.03455)
• Wen Sun; Kang Jiao; Tong-Jie Zhang*: Influence of the Bounds of the Hyperparameters on the Reconstruction of the Hubble Constant with the Gaussian Process, 2021, The Astrophysical Journal, 915, 123
• Siwei Zou*; Robert A. Simcoe; Patrick Petitjean et al.: Disturbed cold gas in galaxy and structure formation, 2024, ApJL, submitted (arXiv: 2502.14705)