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List of works by Michael Boylan-Kolchin

A 700 Year-old Pulsar in the Supernova Remnant Kesteven 75

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A dichotomy in satellite quenching around L* galaxies

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A predicted correlation between age gradient and star formation history in FIRE dwarf galaxies

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A profile in FIRE: resolving the radial distributions of satellite galaxies in the Local Group with simulations

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A semi-analytic model comparison - gas cooling and galaxy mergers

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A semi-analytic model comparison: testing cooling models against hydrodynamical simulations

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A tale of two populations: the stellar mass of central and satellite galaxies

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A virtual Universe

scientific article published in Nature

Are Halos of Collisionless Cold Dark Matter Collisionless?

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Are rotating planes of satellite galaxies ubiquitous?

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Be it therefore resolved: cosmological simulations of dwarf galaxies with 30 solar mass resolution

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Can feedback solve the too-big-to-fail problem?

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Comparing M31 and Milky Way satellites: the extended star formation histories of Andromeda II and Andromeda XVI

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Convergence of galaxy properties with merger tree temporal resolution

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Core Formation in Galactic Nuclei due to Recoiling Black Holes

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

DDO 216-A1: A Central Globular Cluster in a Low-luminosity Transition-type Galaxy

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Dark and luminous satellites of LMC-mass galaxies in the FIRE simulations

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Discrete Effects in Stellar Feedback: Individual Supernovae, Hypernovae, and IMF Sampling in Dwarf Galaxies

scientific article published on 23 July 2018

Dissipationless mergers of elliptical galaxies and the evolution of the fundamental plane

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Dwarf galaxies in CDM, WDM, and SIDM: disentangling baryons and dark matter physics

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Dwarf galaxy mass estimators versus cosmological simulations

scientific article published on 07 August 2017

Dynamical friction and galaxy merging time-scales

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Dynamics of the Magellanic Clouds in a Lambda cold dark matter universe

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ELVIS: Exploring the Local Volume in Simulations

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ETHOS – an effective theory of structure formation: predictions for the high-redshift Universe – abundance of galaxies and reionization

scientific article published on 28 March 2018

Environmental quenching of low-mass field galaxies

scientific article published on 18 April 2018

Erratum: From dwarf spheroidals to cD galaxies: simulating the galaxy population in a ΛCDM cosmology

scholarly article by Qi Guo et al published 23 August 2013 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Evolution of giant molecular clouds across cosmic time

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Extragalactic gamma-ray background radiation from dark matter annihilation

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FIRE-2 simulations: physics versus numerics in galaxy formation

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Forged in fire: cusps, cores and baryons in low-mass dwarf galaxies

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From dwarf spheroidals to cD galaxies: simulating the galaxy population in a ΛCDM cosmology

scholarly article by Qi Guo et al published 8 February 2011 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

From the top down and back up again: star cluster structure from hierarchical star formation

scientific article published on 23 August 2018

Further constraining galaxy evolution models through the size function of SDSS early-type galaxies

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Galactic accretion and the outer structure of galaxies in the CDM model

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Galaxy formation in WMAP1 and WMAP7 cosmologies

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Galaxy formation with BECDM - I. Turbulence and relaxation of idealized haloes.

scientific article published on 25 July 2017

Galaxy motions cause trouble for cosmology

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Gas kinematics in FIRE simulated galaxies compared to spatially unresolved H i observations

scientific article published on 24 March 2018

Gas kinematics, morphology and angular momentum in the FIRE simulations

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Globular Clusters and Streaming Velocities: Testing the New Formation Channel in High-resolution Cosmological Simulations

scientific article published in 2021

Globular clusters in high-redshift dwarf galaxies: a case study from the Local Group.

scientific article published on 16 March 2018

HETDEX Public Source Catalog 1: 220 K Sources Including Over 50 K Lyα Emitters from an Untargeted Wide-area Spectroscopic Survey*

scientific article published in February 2023

HETDEX [O iii] Emitters. I. A Spectroscopically Selected Low-redshift Population of Low-mass, Low-metallicity Galaxies

scientific article published in 2021

How do galaxies populate dark matter haloes?

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How to model supernovae in simulations of star and galaxy formation

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Linking haloes to galaxies: how many halo properties are needed?

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Local Group ultra-faint dwarf galaxies in the reionization era

M31 satellite masses compared to ΛCDM subhaloes

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Major mergers of galaxy haloes: cuspy or cored inner density profile?

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Metallicity Distribution Function of the Eridanus II Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxy from Hubble Space Telescope Narrowband Imaging

scientific article published on 20 January 2022

Near-field limits on the role of faint galaxies in cosmic reionization

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No assembly required: mergers are mostly irrelevant for the growth of low-mass dwarf galaxies

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Not so lumpy after all: modelling the depletion of dark matter subhaloes by Milky Way-like galaxies

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On the hot gas content of the Milky way halo

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

On the stark difference in satellite distributions around the Milky Way and Andromeda

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Properties of resonantly produced sterile neutrino dark matter subhaloes

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Push it to the limit: Local Group constraints on high-redshift stellar mass functions forM⋆≥ 105 M⊙

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Red mergers and the assembly of massive elliptical galaxies: the fundamental plane and its projections

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Resolving cosmic structure formation with the Millennium-II Simulation

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Resonant sterile neutrino dark matter in the local and high-zUniverse

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SIDM on FIRE: hydrodynamical self-interacting dark matter simulations of low-mass dwarf galaxies.

scientific article published on 5 September 2017

Satellite accretion on to massive galaxies with central black holes

scholarly article by Michael Boylan-Kolchin & C.-P. Ma published 1 February 2007 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Scalar field dark matter: helping or hurting small-scale problems in cosmology?

scholarly article by Victor H Robles et al published 30 November 2018 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Segue 2: the least massive galaxy

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Self-consistent proto-globular cluster formation in cosmological simulations of high-redshift galaxies

scientific article published in 2020

Simulating galaxies in the reionization era with FIRE-2: galaxy scaling relations, stellar mass functions, and luminosity functions

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Simulating galaxies in the reionization era with FIRE-2: morphologies and sizes

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Small-Scale Challenges to the ΛCDM Paradigm

Small-scale structure in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and {Lambda}CDM: isolated ~L_*_ galaxies with bright satellites

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Star formation histories of dwarf galaxies in the FIRE simulations: dependence on mass and Local Group environment

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Sweating the small stuff: simulating dwarf galaxies, ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, and their own tiny satellites

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Taking care of business in a flash : constraining the time-scale for low-mass satellite quenching with ELVIS

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The ACS LCID project. X. The star formation history of IC 1613: revisiting the over-cooling problem

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Hubble Space Telescope Survey of M31 Satellite Galaxies. I. RR Lyrae–based Distances and Refined 3D Geometric Structure

scientific article published in 2022

The ISLANDS project. I. Andromeda XVI, an extremely low mass galaxy not quenched by reionization

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The ISLAndS Project. II. The Lifetime Star Formation Histories of Six Andromeda dSphs

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The ISLAnds Project. III. Variable Stars in Six Andromeda Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Importance of Preventive Feedback: Inference from Observations of the Stellar Masses and Metallicities of Milky Way Dwarf Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The In Situ Origins of Dwarf Stellar Outskirts in FIRE-2

scientific article published in 2022

The Little Engines That Could? Globular clusters contribute significantly to reionization-era star formation

scientific article published on 07 June 2018

The Local Group as a time machine: studying the high-redshift Universe with nearby galaxies

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The Local Group: the ultimate deep field

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The Milky Way’s bright satellites as an apparent failure of ΛCDM

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The Proper Motion of Pyxis: The First Use of Adaptive Optics in Tandem withHSTon a Faint Halo Object

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The connection between the host halo and the satellite galaxies of the Milky Way

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The density and pseudo-phase-space density profiles of cold dark matter haloes

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The dynamical state and mass–concentration relation of galaxy clusters

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The dynamics of isolated Local Group galaxies

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The effects of patchy reionization on satellite galaxies of the Milky Way

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The formation and hierarchical assembly of globular cluster populations

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The globular cluster-dark matter halo connection

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The growth of galactic bulges through mergers in Λ CDM haloes revisited – I. Present-day properties

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The mass dependence of satellite quenching in Milky Way-like haloes

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The mass profile and accretion history of cold dark matter haloes

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The mass–concentration–redshift relation of cold dark matter haloes

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The merger rates and mass assembly histories of dark matter haloes in the two Millennium simulations

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The no-spin zone: rotation versus dispersion support in observed and simulated dwarf galaxies

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The origin of the diverse morphologies and kinematics of Milky Way-mass galaxies in the FIRE-2 simulations

scientific article published on 14 September 2018

The origin of ultra diffuse galaxies: stellar feedback and quenching

scientific article published on 04 May 2018

The rapid assembly of an elliptical galaxy of 400 billion solar masses at a redshift of 2.3.

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The space motion of Leo I: Hubble space telescope proper motion and implied orbit

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The space motion of Leo I: the mass of the Milky Way's dark matter halo

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The statistics of the subhalo abundance of dark matter haloes

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The suppression of star formation on the smallest scales: what role does environment play?

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The surprising inefficiency of dwarf satellite quenching

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There's no place like home? Statistics of Milky Way-mass dark matter haloes

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Through a Smoother Lens: An expected absence of LCDM substructure detections from hydrodynamic and dark matter only simulations

scientific article published on 20 July 2018

Too big to fail in the Local Group

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Too big to fail? The puzzling darkness of massive Milky Way subhaloes

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UVUDF: UV Luminosity Functions at the Cosmic High Noon

scientific article published in The Astrophysical Journal in March 2017

Warm FIRE: Simulating Galaxy Formation with Resonant Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter

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What drives the evolution of gas kinematics in star-forming galaxies?

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Where are the most ancient stars in the Milky Way?

scientific article published on 14 July 2018

fire in the field: simulating the threshold of galaxy formation

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