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(Star)bursts of FIRE: observational signatures of bursty star formation in galaxies

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A Census of Sub-kiloparsec Resolution Metallicity Gradients in Star-forming Galaxies at Cosmic Noon from HST Slitless Spectroscopy

scientific article published in 2020

A Cosmological Framework for the Co‐evolution of Quasars, Supermassive Black Holes, and Elliptical Galaxies. I. Galaxy Mergers and Quasar Activity

scholarly article by Philip F. Hopkins et al published April 2008 in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

A Cosmological Framework for the Co‐evolution of Quasars, Supermassive Black Holes, and Elliptical Galaxies. II. Formation of Red Ellipticals

scholarly article by Philip F. Hopkins et al published April 2008 in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

A Physical Model for the Origin of Quasar Lifetimes

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A Theoretical Interpretation of the Black Hole Fundamental Plane

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A Unified, Merger‐driven Model of the Origin of Starbursts, Quasars, the Cosmic X‐Ray Background, Supermassive Black Holes, and Galaxy Spheroids

scholarly article by Philip F. Hopkins et al published March 2006 in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

A black hole fundamental plane

scholarly article by Philip F. Hopkins published July 2007 in Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union

A characteristic division between the fueling of quasars and Seyferts: five simple tests

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A constrained-gradient method to control divergence errors in numerical MHD

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A general class of Lagrangian smoothed particle hydrodynamics methods and implications for fluid mixing problems

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A general theory of turbulent fragmentation

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A maximum stellar surface density in dense stellar systems

A model for (non-lognormal) density distributions in isothermal turbulence

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A multiwavelength study of binary quasars and their environments

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A new class of accurate, mesh-free hydrodynamic simulation methods

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A new empirical method to infer the starburst history of the Universe from local galaxy properties

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A non-parametric estimate of mass ‘scoured’ in galaxy cores

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A physical model for the origin of the diffuse cosmic infrared background and the opacity of the Universe to very high energy γ-rays

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A physical model for z ∼ 2 dust-obscured 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 for the co-evolution of galaxies, black holes and active galactic nuclei

scholarly article by Rachel Somerville et al published 1 December 2008 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

A simple phenomenological model for grain clustering in turbulence

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A stable finite-volume method for scalar field dark matter

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A stellar feedback origin for neutral hydrogen in high-redshift quasar-mass haloes

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ALMA Resolves the Nuclear Disks of Arp 220

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Accretion does not drive the turbulence in galactic discs

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Accurate, meshless methods for magnetohydrodynamics

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An Observational Determination of the Bolometric Quasar Luminosity Function

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

An Observed Fundamental Plane Relation for Supermassive Black Holes

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

An Upper Limit to the Degree of Evolution between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

An analytic model of angular momentum transport by gravitational torques: from galaxies to massive black holes

scholarly article by Philip F. Hopkins & Eliot Quataert published 4 July 2011 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

An excursion-set model for the structure of giant molecular clouds and the interstellar medium

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An explanation for the slopes of stellar cusps in galaxy spheroids

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An instability of feedback-regulated star formation in galactic nuclei

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Anisotropic diffusion in mesh-free numerical magnetohydrodynamics

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Are most low-luminosity active galactic nuclei really obscured?

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Are the Formation and Abundances of Metal-poor Stars the Result of Dust Dynamics?

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Astrophysics: stars fight back

scientific article published in December 2014

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

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Better Galactic Mass Models through Chemistry

article published in 2017

Binary stars can provide the ‘missing photons’ needed for reionization

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Black Holes in Galaxy Mergers: Evolution of Quasars

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Black holes on FIRE: stellar feedback limits early feeding of galactic nuclei

scholarly article by Daniel Anglés-Alcázar et al published 5 October 2017 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

Breathing FIRE: how stellar feedback drives radial migration, rapid size fluctuations, and population gradients in low-mass galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey

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CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey--The Hubble Space Telescope observations, imaging data products, and mosaics

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CANDELS: the progenitors of compact quiescent galaxies at z ~ 2

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Cluster Alignments and Ellipticities in ΛCDM Cosmology

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Color distributions, number, and mass densities of massive galaxies at 1.5 < z < 3: comparing observations with merger simulations

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Compact high-redshift galaxies are the cores of the most massive present-day spheroids

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Constraints on black hole growth, quasar lifetimes, and Eddington ratio distributions from the SDSS broad-line quasar black hole mass function

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Converging on the Initial Mass Function of Stars

Cosmic ray driven outflows to Mpc scales from L<SUB>*</SUB> galaxies

scientific article published in March 2021

Dense molecular gas: a sensitive probe of stellar feedback models

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Determining the Properties and Evolution of Red Galaxies from the Quasar Luminosity Function

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Discriminating between the physical processes that drive spheroid size evolution

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Dissipation and Extra Light in Galactic Nuclei. I. Gas‐Rich Merger Remnants

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Dissipation and extra light in galactic nuclei. II. "Cusp" ellipticals

article by Philip F. Hopkins et al published 1 March 2009 in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

Dissipation and extra light in galactic nuclei. III. "Core" ellipticals and "missing" light

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Dissipation and extra light in galactic nuclei. IV. Evolution in the scaling relations of spheroids

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Dissipation and the Fundamental Plane: Observational Tests

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Do we expect most AGN to live in discs?

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Dust Reddening in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasars

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

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 delays between starburst and AGN activity in galaxy nuclei

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Erratum: The Keck Baryonic Structure Survey: using foreground/background galaxy pairs to trace the structure and kinematics of circumgalactic neutral hydrogen at z ∼ 2

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Evolution of intrinsic scatter in the SFR-stellar mass correlation at 0.5 < z < 3

Exploring metallicity-dependent rates of Type Ia supernovae and their impact on galaxy formation

scientific article published on 10 August 2022

Feedback-regulated star formation in molecular clouds and galactic discs

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Feedback‐driven Evolution of the Far‐Infrared Spectral Energy Distributions of Luminous and Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

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

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Formation ofz∼6 Quasars from Hierarchical Galaxy Mergers

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Forward and backward galaxy evolution in comoving cumulative number density space

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Fueling Low‐Level AGN Activity through Stochastic Accretion of Cold Gas

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Galactic cosmic-ray scattering due to intermittent structures

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Galactic r-process enrichment by neutron star mergers in cosmological simulations of a Milky Way-mass galaxy

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Galaxies on FIRE (Feedback In Realistic Environments): stellar feedback explains cosmologically inefficient star formation

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Gas kinematics, morphology and angular momentum in the FIRE simulations

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Giant clumps in the FIRE simulations: a case study of a massive high-redshift galaxy

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Gravitational torque-driven black hole growth and feedback in cosmological simulations

scholarly article by Daniel Anglés-Alcázar et al published 8 October 2016 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Gusty, gaseous flows of FIRE: galactic winds in cosmological simulations with explicit stellar feedback

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He II REIONIZATION AND ITS EFFECT ON THE INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

High-redshift Galaxy Formation with Self-consistently Modeled Stars and Massive Black Holes: Stellar Feedback and Quasar Growth

scientific article published in 2019

How Much Mass Do Supermassive Black Holes Eat in Their Old Age?

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

How do disks survive mergers?

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

How do massive black holes get their gas?

scholarly article by Philip F. Hopkins & Eliot Quataert published 21 July 2010 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

How stellar feedback simultaneously regulates star formation and drives outflows

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Is the dependence of spectral index on luminosity real in optically selected AGN samples?

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Jumping the gap: the formation conditions and mass function of ‘pebble-pile’ planetesimals

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Low-redshift Lyman limit systems as diagnostics of cosmological inflows and outflows

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Luminosity‐dependent Quasar Lifetimes: A New Interpretation of the Quasar Luminosity Function

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Luminosity‐dependent Quasar Lifetimes: Reconciling the Optical and X‐Ray Quasar Luminosity Functions

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Mapping the core mass function to the initial mass function

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Measuring dynamical masses from gas kinematics in simulated high-redshift galaxies

scientific article published in 2020

Mergers and bulge formation in {Lambda}CDM: which mergers matter?

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Mergers in {Lambda}CDM: uncertainties in theoretical predictions and interpretations of the merger rate

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Mergers, active galactic nuclei and ‘normal’ galaxies: contributions to the distribution of star formation rates and infrared luminosity functions

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Metal flows of the circumgalactic medium, and the metal budget in galactic haloes

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Metallicity gradients at large galactocentric radii using the near-infrared Calcium triplet

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Modeling mid-infrared diagnostics of obscured quasars and starbursts

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Modeling the Dust Properties ofz∼ 6 Quasars with ART2—All‐Wavelength Radiative Transfer with Adaptive Refinement Tree

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Modelling chemical abundance distributions for dwarf galaxies in the Local Group: the impact of turbulent metal diffusion

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Molecular Outflows in Galaxy Merger Simulations with Embedded Active Galactic Nuclei

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Mufasa: Galaxy star formation, gas, and metal properties across cosmic time

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Neutral hydrogen in galaxy haloes at the peak of the cosmic star formation history

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No more active galactic nuclei in clumpy disks than in smooth galaxies at z ~ 2 in CANDELS/3D-HST

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Non-linear evolution of instabilities between dust and sound waves

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Observational Evidence for the Coevolution of Galaxy Mergers, Quasars, and the Blue/Red Galaxy Transition

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

On sizes, kinematics, M/L gradients, and light profiles of massive compact galaxies at z ~ 2

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

On the dust temperatures of high-redshift galaxies

scientific article published in 2019

On the nature of variations in the measured star formation efficiency of molecular clouds

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On the survival of cool clouds in the circumgalactic medium

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Photometric Properties of the Most Massive High‐Redshift Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Predictions for the spatial distribution of the dust continuum emission in $\boldsymbol {1\,\lt\, z\,\lt\, 5}$ star-forming galaxies

scientific article published in 2019

Probing the CGM of low-redshift dwarf galaxies using FIRE simulations

scientific article published in 2020

Protostellar feedback in turbulent fragmentation: consequences for stellar clustering and multiplicity

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Quasar feedback: more bang for your buck

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Quasars are not light bulbs: testing models of quasar lifetimes with the observed Eddington ratio distribution

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Quasars, Feedback, and Galaxy Formation

article published in 2009

Radiative stellar feedback in galaxy formation: Methods and physics

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Reconciling dwarf galaxies with {lambda}cdm cosmology: simulating a realistic population of satellites around a Milky Way-mass galaxy

scholarly article by Andrew R. Wetzel et al published 11 August 2016 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

Recovering stellar population properties and redshifts from broadband photometry of simulated galaxies: lessons for SED modeling

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Relation between globular clusters and supermassive black holes in ellipticals as a manifestation of the black hole fundamental plane

scholarly article by Gregory F. Snyder et al published 24 January 2011 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

Resolving the generation of starburst winds in Galaxy mergers

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Rest‐Frame Ultraviolet to Near‐Infrared Observations of an Interacting Lyman Break Galaxy atz = 4.42

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

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

scientific article published on 5 September 2017

Scaling laws of passive-scalar diffusion in the interstellar medium

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

scientific article published in 2020

Self-regulated black hole growth via momentum deposition in galaxy merger simulations

scholarly article by Jackson DeBuhr et al published 15 June 2010 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

Self-regulated star formation in galaxies via momentum input from massive stars

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Some stars are totally metal: a new mechanism driving dust across star-forming clouds, and consequences for planets, stars, and galaxies

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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Star formation in a turbulent framework: from giant molecular clouds to protostars

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Star formation in galaxy mergers with realistic models of stellar feedback and the interstellar medium

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Stellar and quasar feedback in concert: effects on AGN accretion, obscuration, and outflows

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Stellar feedback and bulge formation in clumpy discs

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Stellar feedback in galaxies and the origin of galaxy-scale winds

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Strongly time-variable ultraviolet metal-line emission from the circum-galactic medium of high-redshift galaxies

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Submillimetre galaxies in a hierarchical universe: number counts, redshift distribution and implications for the IMF

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Supernovae, supercomputers, and galactic evolution

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

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Testing the Recovery of Intrinsic Galaxy Sizes and Masses of z ∼ 2 Massive Galaxies Using Cosmological Simulations

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The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. II. Isolated disk test

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The AGORA high-resolution galaxy simulations comparison project

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The Co‐Formation of Spheroids and Quasars Traced in their Clustering

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Distribution and Evolution of Black Hole Mass in Broad Line Quasars

scholarly article by Brandon C. Kelly et al published August 2009 in Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union

The Evolution in the Faint‐End Slope of the Quasar Luminosity Function

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Evolution of theMBH‐σ Relation

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Fundamental Scaling Relations of Elliptical Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The IRX–β relation of high-redshift galaxies

scientific article published in 2021

The Impact of Enhanced Halo Resolution on the Simulated Circumgalactic Medium

scientific article published on 13 September 2019

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

scientific article published in 2022

The Keck Baryonic Structure Survey: using foreground/background galaxy pairs to trace the structure and kinematics of circumgalactic neutral hydrogen at z ∼ 2

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The Kinematic Structure of Merger Remnants

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Luminosity Dependence of Quasar Clustering

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Nature of CO Emission from z ~ 6 Quasars

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The Radical Consequences of Realistic Satellite Orbits for the Heating and Implied Merger Histories of Galactic Disks

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Relation between Quasar and Merging Galaxy Luminosity Functions and the Merger‐driven Star Formation History of the Universe

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Role of Galactic Winds on Molecular Gas Emission from Galaxy Mergers

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The Self‐Regulated Growth of Supermassive Black Holes

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Shape, Multiplicity, and Evolution of Superclusters in ΛCDM Cosmology

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The bolometric quasar luminosity function at z = 0–7

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The creation and persistence of a misaligned gas disc in a simulated early-type galaxy

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The difficulty of getting high escape fractions of ionizing photons from high-redshift galaxies: a view from the FIRE cosmological simulations

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The effects of gas on morphological transformation in mergers: implications for bulge and disc demographics

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The formation of massive, quiescent galaxies at cosmic noon

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The formation of submillimetre-bright galaxies from gas infall over a billion years.

scientific article published in September 2015

The fundamentally different dynamics of dust and gas in molecular clouds

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The impact of stellar feedback on hot gas in galaxy haloes: the Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect and soft X-ray emission

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The meaning and consequences of star formation criteria in galaxy models with resolved stellar feedback

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The necessity of feedback physics in setting the peak of the initial mass function

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

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The nuclear stellar disc in Andromeda: a fossil from the era of black hole growth

scholarly article by Philip F. Hopkins & Eliot Quataert published 21 April 2010 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

The observability of galaxy merger signatures in nearby gas-rich spirals

scientific article published in 2022

The origin and evolution of the galaxy mass–metallicity relation

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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 origins of active galactic nuclei obscuration: the ‘torus’ as a dynamical, unstable driver of accretion

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The rise and fall of passive disk galaxies: morphological evolution along the red sequence revealed by COSMOS

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The small scatter in BH-host correlations and the case for self-regulated BH growth

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The stellar initial mass function, core mass function and the last-crossing distribution

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The structure and dynamical evolution of the stellar disc of a simulated Milky Way-mass galaxy

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The structure of the interstellar medium of star-forming galaxies

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Three-dimensional radiative transfer calculations of radiation feedback from massive black holes: outflow of mass from the dusty "Torus"

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Turbulent disks are never stable: fragmentation and turbulence-promoted planet formation

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Variations in the stellar CMF and IMF: from bottom to top

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When should we treat galaxies as isolated?

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When the Jeans do not Fit: How Stellar Feedback Drives Stellar Kinematics and Complicates Dynamical Modeling in Low-mass Galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Why are active galactic nuclei and host galaxies misaligned?

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Why do stars form in clusters? An analytic model for stellar correlation functions

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Why is the Milky Way X-factor constant?

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X‐Ray Emission from Hot Gas in Galaxy Mergers

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

fire in the field: simulating the threshold of galaxy formation

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mufasa: galaxy formation simulations with meshless hydrodynamics

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