General

Email:  zz at bao 'dot' ac 'dot' cn

Address: National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20A Datun Rd, Beijing 100101, China

Research Areas

galaxy structure, galaxy formation and evolution


Education

Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D., 2014

NAOC, M.S., 2007

Shandong University, B.S., 2004

Selected Refereed Publications

​Zheng, Z.; Li, C.; Mao, S.; et al., SDSS-IV MaNGA: Environmental dependence of the

Mgb/<Fe>-sigma_* relation for nearby galaxies, 2019, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 873, Issue

1, article id. 63, 15 pp.


Zhou, Shuang; Mo, H. J.; Li, Cheng;  Zheng, Zheng; et al., SDSS-IV MaNGA: stellar initial

mass function variation inferred from Bayesian analysis of the integral eld spectroscopy of

early-type galaxies, 2019, sl Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 485,

Issue 4, p.5256-5275


Wang,J.;  Zheng, Z.; D'Souza, R.; et al., The prevalence of type III disc breaks in HI-rich

and low-spin galaxies, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 479,

Issue 4, p.4292-4306


Audcent-Ross, Fiona M.; Meurer, Gerhardt R.; Wong, O. I.;  Zheng, Z.; et al., Near-identical

star formation rate densities from H and FUV at redshift zero, 2018, Monthly Notices of the

Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 480, Issue 1, p.119-133


Meurer, Gerhardt R.; Obreschkow, Danail; Wong, O. Ivy;  Zheng, Zheng; et al., Cosmic

clocks: a tight radius-velocity relationship for H I-selected galaxies, 2018, Monthly Notices of

the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 476, Issue 2, p.1624-1636


Saintonge, Amelie; ...;  Zheng, Zheng, JINGLE, a JCMT legacy survey of dust and gas for

galaxy evolution studies - I. Survey overview and rst results, 2018, Monthly Notices of the

Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 481, Issue 3, p.3497-3519


 Zheng, Z.; Wang, H.; Ge, J.; Mao, S.; et al., SDSS-IV MaNGA: environmental dependence

of stellar age and metallicity gradients in nearby galaxies, 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal

Astronomical Society, Volume 465, Issue 4, p.4572-4588


Parikh, Taniya; ...;  Zheng, Zheng, SDSS-IV MaNGA: the spatially resolved stellar initial

mass function in 400 early-type galaxies, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical

Society, Volume 477, Issue 3, p.3954-3982


Li, Hongyu; ...;  Zheng, Zheng; et al., SDSS-IV MaNGA: global stellar population and

gradients for about 2000 early-type and spiral galaxies on the mass-size plane, 2018, Monthly

Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 476, Issue 2, p.1765-1775


Goddard, D. ... Zheng, Z.; et al., SDSS-IV MaNGA: stellar population gradients as a function

of galaxy environment, 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 465,

Issue 1, p.688-700


Goddard, D. ... Zheng, Z.; et al., SDSS-IV MaNGA: Spatially resolved star formation histo-

ries in galaxies as a function of galaxy mass and type, 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal

Astronomical Society, Volume 466, Issue 4, p.4731-4758


Wang, Lin; Shu, Yiping; Li, Ran;  Zheng, Zheng; et al., SDSS J1640+1932: a spectacular

galaxy-quasar strong lens system, 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,

Volume 468, Issue 3, p.3757-3763


Wong, O.; Meurer, G.;  Zheng, Z.; et al., Characterizing uniform star formation ecien-

cies with marginally stable galactic discs, 2016, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical

Society, Volume 460, Issue 1, pp.1106-1118


Yan, R. ...  Zheng, Z., SDSS-IV MaNGA IFS Galaxy Survey | Survey Design, Execution,

and Initial Data Quality, 2016, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 152, Issue 6, article id.

197, 32 pp.


Chen, T. W. ...  Zheng, Z.; et al., The host galaxy and late-time evolution of the super-

luminous supernova PTF12dam, 2015, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,

Volume 452, Issue 2, p.1567-1586


 Zheng, Z.; Thilker, D.; Heckman, T.; Meurer, G.; et al., The Structure and Stellar Content

of the Outer Disks of Galaxies: A New View from the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey,

2015, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 800, Issue 2, article id. 120, 26 pp.


Scolnic, D. M. ...  Zheng, Z.; et al., Systematic Uncertainties Associated with the Cosmolog-

ical Analysis of the First Pan-STARRS1 Type Ia Supernova Sample, 2014, The Astrophysical

Journal, Volume 795, Issue 1, article id. 45, 23 pp.


Rest, A. ...  Zheng, Z.; et al., Cosmological Constraints from Measurements of Type Ia

Supernovae discovered during the rst 1.5 years of the Pan-STARRS1 Survey, 2014, The

Astrophysical Journal, Volume 795, Issue 1, article id. 44, 34 pp.


 Zheng, Z.; Meurer, G.; Heckman, T.; D. Thilker & Zwaan, M., Equilibrium Star Formation

In A Constant Q Disc: Model Optimisation and Initial Tests, 2013, Monthly Notices of the

Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 434, Issue 4, pp. 3389-3407


Meurer, G.;  Zheng, Z.; & de Blok, E., Disc Stability and Neutral Hydrogen as a Tracer of

Dark Matter, 2013, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 429, Issue 3,

pp. 2537-2549


 Zheng, Z.; Lu, Y.; & Zhao, Y., A Comptonization Model for the Prompt Optical and

Infrared Emission of GRB 041219A, 2006, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 646, Issue 1,

pp. L25-L28