Aaron Smith

The University of Texas at Dallas — United States

Physics and Astronomy · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena(42), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies(28), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research(26), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies(16), Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena(14)

Publications87 total

The <scp>thesan-zoom</scp> project: The Hidden Neighbours of O  <scp>i</scp> Absorbers during Reionization
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2026· 1 citedOpen Access
The <scp>thesan-zoom</scp> project: Mystery N/O more — uncovering the origin of peculiar chemical abundances and a not-so-fundamental metallicity relation at 3 &amp;lt; <i>z</i> &amp;lt; 12
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2026· 1 citedOpen Access
The <scp>thesan-zoom</scp> project: star formation efficiencies in high-redshift galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Overmassive black holes in the early Universe can be explained by gas-rich, dark matter-dominated galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Metallicity Gradients in Modern Cosmological Simulations II: The Role of Bursty Versus Smooth Feedback at High-Redshift
ArXiv.org·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
The <scp>thesan-zoom</scp> project: central starbursts and inside-out quenching govern galaxy sizes in the early Universe
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2025· 6 citedOpen Access
RIGEL: Feedback-regulated cloud-scale star formation efficiency in a simulated dwarf galaxy merger
Astronomy and Astrophysics·2025Open Access
The THESAN project: Lyman-alpha emitters as probes of ionized bubble sizes
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
High-redshift AGN population in radiation-hydrodynamics simulations
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
The <scp>thesan-zoom</scp> project: burst, quench, repeat – unveiling the evolution of high-redshift galaxies along the star-forming main sequence
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2025· 12 citedOpen Access
Evaluating Mass Outflow Rate Estimators in FIRE-2 Simulations: Toward a Self-consistent Framework for Spectral-line-based Predictions
The Astrophysical Journal·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
The Ly<i>α</i> and Continuum Origins Survey. I. Survey Description and Ly<i>α</i> Imaging
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series·2025· 6 citedOpen Access
How Early Could the Milky Way’s Disk Form?
The Astrophysical Journal·2025· 6 citedOpen Access
The galaxy-IGM connection in THESAN: the physics connecting the IGM Lyman- <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <a:mi>α</a:mi> </a:math> opacity and galaxy density in the reionization epoch
The Open Journal of Astrophysics·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
The <scp>thesan–zoom</scp> project: long-term imprints of external reionization on galaxy evolution
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
The <scp>thesan-zoom</scp>  project: Population III star formation continues until the end of reionization
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
A New Framework for Interstellar Medium Emission Line Models: Connecting Multiscale Simulations across Cosmological Volumes
The Astrophysical Journal·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
The <scp>thesan</scp> project: tracking the expansion and merger histories of ionized bubbles during the Epoch of Reionization
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Overmassive black holes in the early Universe can be explained by gas-rich, dark matter-dominated galaxies
2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Lyman α resonant-line radiative transfer in expanding media
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Rahul Kannan(31), Mark Vogelsberger(31), Lars Hernquist(26), Enrico Garaldi(25), Rüdiger Pakmor(15), Volker Springel(15), Josh Borrow(14), Xuejian Shen(11), Sandro Tacchella(9), Oliver Zier(8), Volker Bromm(7), William McClymont(7), Hui Li(6), Ewald Puchwein(6), Laura C. Keating(5), Jessica Y-C Yeh(4), Meredith Neyer(4), Federico Marinacci(3), Paul Torrey(3), Laura V. Sales(3)