Zachary Hafen

Adler Planetarium — United States

Physics and Astronomy · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena(44), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies(24), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research(23), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies(16), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations(7)

Publications52 total

Great Balls of FIRE
Astronomy and Astrophysics·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
Accretion onto disc galaxies via hot and rotating CGM inflows
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2024· 30 citedOpen Access
The Halo21 absorption modelling challenge: lessons from ‘observing’ synthetic circumgalactic absorption spectra
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Great Balls of FIRE III: Modeling Black Hole Mergers from Massive Star Clusters in Simulations of Galaxies
arXiv (Cornell University)·2023Open Access
A Unified Model for the Coevolution of Galaxies and Their Circumgalactic Medium: The Relative Roles of Turbulence and Atomic Cooling Physics
The Astrophysical Journal·2023· 26 citedOpen Access
Supplementary movies for "A unified model for the co-evolution of galaxies and their circumgalactic medium: the relative roles of turbulence and atomic cooling physics"
Harvard Dataverse·2023Open Access
On the Metallicities and Kinematics of the Circumgalactic Media of Damped Lyα Systems at z ∼ 2.5*
The Astrophysical Journal·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
What causes the formation of discs and end of bursty star formation?
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2023· 82 cited
Born this way: thin disc, thick disc, and isotropic spheroid formation in FIRE-2 Milky Way–mass galaxy simulations
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2023· 49 cited
Accretion onto disk galaxies via hot and rotating CGM inflows
arXiv (Cornell University)·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
On the Metallicities and Kinematics of the Circumgalactic Media of Damped Ly$α$ Systems at $z \sim 2.5$
arXiv (Cornell University)·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
The Halo21 Absorption Modeling Challenge: Lessons From "Observing" Synthetic Circumgalactic Absorption Spectra
arXiv (Cornell University)·2023Open Access
Public Data Release of the FIRE-2 Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations of Galaxy Formation
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series·2023· 118 citedOpen Access
Great balls of FIRE II: The evolution and destruction of star clusters across cosmic time in a Milky Way-mass galaxy
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2023· 33 citedOpen Access
The imprint of bursty star formation on alpha-element abundance patterns in Milky Way-like galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
What Causes The Formation of Disks and End of Bursty Star Formation?
arXiv (Cornell University)·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
The imprint of bursty star formation on alpha-element abundance patterns in Milky Way-like galaxies
arXiv (Cornell University)·2023Open Access
Rapid disc settling and the transition from bursty to steady star formation in Milky Way-mass galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2022· 62 citedOpen Access
Great balls of FIRE – I. The formation of star clusters across cosmic time in a Milky Way-mass galaxy
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
A unified model for the co-evolution of galaxies and their circumgalactic medium: the relative roles of turbulence and atomic cooling physics
arXiv (Cornell University)·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
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Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère(41), Andrew Wetzel(28), Jonathan Stern(27), Philip F. Hopkins(26), Dušan Kereš(23), Eliot Quataert(21), Daniel Anglés‐Alcázar(17), James S. Bullock(17), Alexander B. Gurvich(17), Michael Boylan-Kolchin(14), Robert Feldmann(14), Kareem El-Badry(12), T K Chan(11), Drummond B. Fielding(11), Jorge Moreno(11), Norman Murray(9), Christopher C. Hayward(9), Michael Y Grudić(9), Cameron Hummels(8), Sijie Yu(7)