Dong Lai

Professor
Astronomy · CAS

Dong Lai serves as Professor in Astronomy at Cornell University.

365 publications
11,911 citations
63 h-index
Physics and Astronomy
Rising Papers (2)
2025-09-18 · Science China Physics Mechanics and Astronomy · Astronomy and Astrophysics
Dense matter in neutron stars with eXTP
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
26 citations · 13.7x expected for field
2025-09-25 · Science China Physics Mechanics and Astronomy · Biomedical Engineering
Physics of strong magnetism with eXTP
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
15 citations · 4.1x expected for field
Recent Papers (50)
2026-08-26 · The Astrophysical Journal · Astronomy and Astrophysics
Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers in Nuclear Star Clusters: A Combined Dynamical-secular Channel for GW231123-like Events
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2026-08-18 · The Astronomical Journal · Astronomy and Astrophysics
TESS Photometry and Radial-velocity Analysis of the Sub-Neptune Exoplanet π Mensae c and the Wider π Mensae Planetary System
Nikole K. LewisProf Assoc, Astronomy · CAS
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2026-08-10 · The Astrophysical Journal · Astronomy and Astrophysics
Impact of Resonant Compton Scattering on Magnetar X-Ray Polarization with Quantum Electrodynamics Vacuum Resonance
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2026-07-27 · The Astrophysical Journal · Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Resonance Capture of a Test Particle by an Eccentric Planet in the Presence of Externally Driven Apsidal Precession
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2026-06-03 · arXiv (Cornell University) · Astronomy and Astrophysics
Bridging Roche Lobe Overflow and micro-TDEs: The Runaway Evolution of Eccentric Mass Transfer in Star-Black Hole Binaries
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2026-05-20 · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · Astronomy and Astrophysics
Planetary Desert around Compact Binaries: Dynamical Instability Triggered by Resonance-induced Eccentricity Excitation
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2026-04-22 · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · Astronomy and Astrophysics
A Formation Crisis of Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Events
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2026-04-20 · arXiv (Cornell University) · Astronomy and Astrophysics
Impact of Cold Jupiter Scattering on the Mean-Motion Resonance of Inner Small Planets
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2026-02-28 · arXiv (Cornell University) · Astronomy and Astrophysics
Planetary Desert around Compact Binaries: Dynamical Instability Triggered by Resonance-Induced Eccentricity Excitation
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2026-02-17 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Astronomy and Astrophysics
A universal brown dwarf desert formed between planets and stars
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2026-02-12 · arXiv (Cornell University) · Astronomy and Astrophysics
Velocities of Free Floaters in a Sea of Stars
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2025-10-28 · The Astrophysical Journal · Astronomy and Astrophysics
Binary Stars Approaching Supermassive Black Holes: Hydrodynamics of Stellar Collisions, Mass Fallback, and Partial Tidal Disruption Events
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2025-10-13
Spin and Obliquity Distributions of Low-mass Planets Shaped by Dynamical Instability
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2025-10-13 · arXiv (Cornell University) · Astronomy and Astrophysics
Spin and Obliquity Distributions of Low-mass Planets Shaped by Dynamical Instability
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2025-09-26 · The Astrophysical Journal · Astronomy and Astrophysics
Stellar Obliquity Excitation via Disk-dispersal-driven Resonances in Binaries
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2025-09-25 · Science China Physics Mechanics and Astronomy · Biomedical Engineering
Physics of strong magnetism with eXTP
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2024-07-01
Free-floating Planets, Survivor Planets, Captured Planets, and Binary Planets from Stellar Flybys
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2024-06-07
Extreme Resonant Eccentricity Excitation of Stars around Merging Black-Hole Binary
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2024-03-01
Formation of Merging Stellar-mass Black Hole Binaries by Gravitational-wave Emission in Active Galactic Nucleus Disks
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2023-01-30
High-eccentricity Migration with Disk-induced Spin–Orbit Misalignment: A Preference for Perpendicular Hot Jupiters
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2022-10-20
Apsidal alignment and anti-alignment of planets in mean-motion resonance: disc-driven migration and eccentricity driving
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2022-08-01
Long-term Evolution of Tightly Packed Stellar Black Holes in AGN Disks: Formation of Merging Black Hole Binaries via Close Encounters
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2022-04-30
Secular chaos in white dwarf planetary systems: origins of metal pollution and short-period planetary companions
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2022-04-28
Evolution of stellar orbits around merging massive black hole binary
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2022-04-23
Dynamics of Colombo’s Top: non-trivial oblique spin equilibria of super-Earths in multiplanetary systems
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2022-02-01
Dynamical Tidal Love Numbers of Rapidly Rotating Planets and Stars
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2022-01-01
Probing the Spins of Supermassive Black Holes with Gravitational Waves from Surrounding Compact Binaries
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2021-12-17
Dynamical tides in eccentric binaries containing massive main-sequence stars: analytical expressions
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2021-10-30
Dynamics of Colombo’s top: tidal dissipation and resonance capture, with applications to oblique super-Earths, ultra-short-period planets and inspiraling hot Jupiters
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2021-10-20
The impact of stellar clustering on the observed multiplicity of super-earth systems: outside–in cascade of orbital misalignments initiated by stellar flybys
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2021-10-01
Spin Dynamics of Extrasolar Giant Planets in Planet–Planet Scattering
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2021-09-21
Constraining Saturn’s Interior with Ring Seismology: Effects of Differential Rotation and Stable Stratification
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2021-09-08
Strong scatterings of cold Jupiters and their influence on inner low-mass planet systems: theory and simulations
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2021-06-17
3D MHD simulations of accretion on to stars with tilted magnetic and rotational axes
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2021-06-14
Constraining Saturn's interior with ring seismology: effects of differential rotation and stable stratification
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2021-06-04
The mass-ratio distribution of tertiary-induced binary black hole mergers
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2021-06-01
On the Correlation between Hot Jupiters and Stellar Clustering: High-eccentricity Migration Induced by Stellar Flybys
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2021-03-26
Spin-orbit misalignments in tertiary-induced binary black-hole mergers: Theoretical analysis
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2021-03-23
Tidal dissipation impact on the eccentric onset of common envelope phases in massive binary star systems
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2021-03-10
Jupiter's Dynamical Love Number
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2021-01-20
Hierarchical black hole mergers in multiple systems: constrain the formation of GW190412-, GW190814-, and GW190521-like events
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2021-01-13
Inclination dynamics of resonant planets under the influence of an inclined external companion
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2020-12-31
Excitation of Spin–Orbit Misalignments in Stellar Binaries with Circumbinary Disks: Application to DI Herculis
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2020-12-05
Giant planet scatterings and collisions: hydrodynamics, merger-ejection branching ratio, and properties of the remnants
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2020-11-28
Enhanced Lidov–Kozai migration and the formation of the transiting giant planet WD 1856+534 b
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2020-10-26
Dynamics of Colombo’s Top: Generating Exoplanet Obliquities from Planet–Disk Interactions
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2020-09-01
High-eccentricity migration of planetesimals around polluted white dwarfs
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2020-07-14
Merging compact binaries near a rotating supermassive black hole: Eccentricity excitation due to apsidal precession resonance
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2020-07-01
Planetary Spin and Obliquity from Mergers
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS
2020-06-19
Tidal evolution of eccentric binaries driven by convective turbulent viscosity
Dong LaiProfessor, Astronomy · CAS