Lars Hernquist
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Lars Hernquist's Degrees
- PhD Physics University of California, Santa Cruz
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lars Hernquist is a theoretical astrophysicist and Mallinckrodt Professor of Astrophysics at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian. He is best known for his research on dynamical processes in cosmology and galaxy formation/galaxy evolution.
Lars Hernquist's Published Works
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Published Works
- An Analytical Model for Spherical Galaxies and Bulges (1990) (2144)
- Gasdynamics and starbursts in major mergers (1995) (1275)
- Transformations of Galaxies. II. Gasdynamics in Merging Disk Galaxies: Addendum (1996) (990)
- TREESPH: A Unification of SPH with the Hierarchical Tree Method (1989) (892)
- Cosmological Simulations with TreeSPH (1995) (805)
- Fueling Starburst Galaxies with Gas-rich Mergers (1991) (717)
- Dynamics of Interacting Galaxies (1992) (684)
- The Low-Redshift Lyα Forest in Cold Dark Matter Cosmologies (1998) (405)
- N-body realizations of compound galaxies (1993) (387)
- The Lyman-Alpha Forest in the Cold Dark Matter Model (1995) (369)
- Quantifying the Fragility of Galactic Disks in Minor Mergers (1995) (357)
- Tidal triggering of starbursts and nuclear activity in galaxies (1989) (342)
- Triggering of Starbursts in Galaxies by Minor Mergers (1994) (336)
- Toward a Precise Measurement of Matter Clustering: Lyα Forest Data at Redshifts 2-4 (2000) (336)
- Ultraluminous starbursts in major mergers (1994) (332)
- The Opacity of the Lyα Forest and Implications for Ωb and the Ionizing Background (1996) (327)
- Recovery of the Power Spectrum of Mass Fluctuations from Observations of the Lyα Forest (1997) (321)
- Excitation of Activity in Galaxies by Minor Mergers (1995) (303)
- Primordial black holes in globular clusters (1993) (284)
- Formation of dwarf galaxies in tidal tails (1992) (244)
- Performance characteristics of tree codes (1987) (238)
- The Disruption of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy. (1995) (226)
- A self-consistent field method for galactic dynamics (1992) (222)
- Fossil Signatures of Ancient Accretion Events in the Halo (1995) (221)
- The Evolution of the MBH-σ Relation (2005) (213)
- The Power Spectrum of Mass Fluctuations Measured from the Lyα Forest at Redshift z = 2.5 (1998) (196)
- Structure of merger remnants. I - Bulgeless progenitors (1992) (194)
- Dense Stellar Cores in Merger Remnants (1994) (188)
- A Lower Bound on the Cosmic Baryon Density (1997) (172)
- Structure of merger remnants. II: Progenitors with rotating bulges (1993) (163)
- Tidal Shocking by Extended Mass Distributions (1997) (157)
- Galaxies and Gas in a Cold Dark Matter Universe (1992) (156)
- Damped Lyman-Alpha and Lyman-Limit Absorbers in the Cold Dark Matter Model (1995) (146)
- Star-forming galaxy models: Blending star formation into TREESPH (1994) (145)
- Tidal Streams as Probes of the Galactic Potential (1998) (144)
- Origin of kinematic subsystems in elliptical galaxies (1991) (141)
- Photoionization, Numerical Resolution, and Galaxy Formation (1996) (141)
- Formation of shells in major mergers (1992) (120)
- Models of Galaxies with Central Black Holes: Adiabatic Growth in Spherical Galaxies (1994) (115)
- Formation of shell galaxies. II. Nonspherical potentials (1988) (110)
- Measuring mass-loss rates from Galactic satellites (1998) (106)
- Voigt-Profile Analysis of the Lyα Forest in a Cold Dark Matter Universe (1996) (98)
- Some cautionary remarks about smoothed particle hydrodynamics (1993) (93)
- Parallel TreeSPH (1997) (92)
- Bar-spheroid interaction in galaxies (1992) (91)
- Structure of merger remnants. III: Phase-space constraints (1993) (90)
- Global Properties of Multiple Merger Remnants (1995) (85)
- Intergalactic Helium Absorption in Cold Dark Matter Models (1996) (83)
- Application of the Ewald method to cosmological N-body simulations (1991) (83)
- Physically detached 'compact groups' (1994) (80)
- Vectorization of tree traversals (1990) (75)
- Shells and Dark Matter in Elliptical Galaxies (1987) (70)
- The Population of Damped Lyα and Lyman Limit Systems in the Cold Dark Matter Model (1996) (70)
- The Clustering of High-Redshift Galaxies in the Cold Dark Matter Scenario (1998) (68)
- Simulations of Damped Lyα and Lyman Limit Absorbers in Different Cosmologies: Implications for Structure Formation at High Redshift (1999) (67)
- Transformations of Galaxies. II. Gasdynamics in Merging Disk Galaxies (1996) (67)
- A Merger Origin for X Structures in S0 Galaxies (1995) (64)
- Constraining the Metallicity of the Low-Density Lyα Forest Using O VI Absorption (1998) (63)
- Dynamics of a Massive Black Hole at the Center of a Dense Stellar System (2001) (62)
- Spokes in ring galaxies. (1993) (61)
- Hierarchical N-body methods (1987) (60)
- Diglycerides as a Stabilizer of the ß'-Crystal Form in Margarines and Fats (1983) (59)
- Segregation of gas and stars in shell galaxies (1992) (56)
- Are some N-body algorithms intrinsically less collisional than others? (1990) (53)
- Tidal Tales Two: The Effect of Dark Matter Halos on Tidal Tail Morphology and Kinematics (1997) (51)
- Where Are All the Fallback Disks? Constraints on Propeller Systems (2005) (48)
- Structure of merger remnants. 4: Isophotal shapes (1994) (46)
- Metal Lines Associated with Lyα Absorbers: A Comparison of Theory and Observations (1997) (46)
- Induced population gradients in galaxy merger remnants (1994) (45)
- Recovery of the power spectrum of mass fluctuations from observations of the Ly alpha forest RAC (2018) (44)
- Testing Cosmological Models against the Abundance of Damped Lyman-Alpha Absorbers (1997) (41)
- Simulations of satellite orbital decay (1989) (41)
- Effects of Wandering on the Coalescence of Black Hole Binaries in Galactic Centers (2003) (40)
- Dynamical Status of M51 (1990) (39)
- Statistical mechanics of violent relaxation (1992) (38)
- Double-core evolution. 5: Three-dimensional effects in the merger of a red giant with a dwarf companion (1994) (36)
- Hubble Space Telescope Observations of NGC 6240: A Case Study of an Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy with Obscured Activity (2003) (36)
- Composition Mixing during Blue Straggler Formation and Evolution (1996) (35)
- A New Empirical Method to Infer the Starburst History of the Universe from Local Galaxy Properties (2009) (35)
- Using X-rays to Determine Which Compact Groups are Illusory (1994) (33)
- Galaxies Collide On the I-Way: an Example of Heterogeneous Wide-Area Collaborative Supercomputing (1996) (33)
- Discreteness Noise versus Force Errors in N-Body Simulations: Erratum (1993) (33)
- Mapping the Cosmic Web with Lyα Emission (2003) (32)
- Shell Galaxies and Alternatives to the Dark Matter Hypothesis (1987) (32)
- Closing In on ΩM: The Amplitude of Mass Fluctuations from Galaxy Clusters and the Lyα Forest (1998) (31)
- Relativistic electron transport in a quantizing magnetic field (1984) (31)
- Dissipational galaxy formation (1989) (30)
- Cosmological Simulations Using the Hierarchical Tree Method (1988) (29)
- Models of Galaxies with Central Black Holes: Simulation Methods (1994) (26)
- Fast, Slow, Early, Late: Quenching Massive Galaxies at z ∼ 0.8 (2021) (26)
- Stability of Nonrotating Stellar Systems. II. Prolate Shell-Orbit Models (1990) (25)
- Structure of merger remnants. V. Kinematics (1996) (25)
- Gravity and count probabilities in an expanding universe (1992) (25)
- The Low Redshift Lyman Alpha Forest in Cold Dark Matter Cosmologies (1998) (24)
- The Observability of Metal Lines Associated with the Lyα Forest (1997) (24)
- A Parallel Self-consistent Field Code (1995) (23)
- Brownian motion in gravitationally interacting systems. (2002) (23)
- KINEMATIC MISALIGNMENTS IN REMNANTS OF MULTIPLE MERGERS (1994) (23)
- Hydrodynamics of collisions between binary stars (1991) (22)
- The power spectrum of mass fluctuations measured from the Ly alpha forest at redshift z=2.5 (1998) (21)
- Constraints on Cosmological Parameters from the Lyα Forest Power Spectrum and COBE DMR (2000) (20)
- Cosmological N-body simulations with a tree code: fluctuations in the linear and nonlinear regimes (1991) (19)
- Secular Evolution of Barred Galaxies with Massive Central Black Holes (1998) (18)
- Constraining the Metallicity of the Low Density Lyman-Alpha Forest Using OVI Absorption (1998) (15)
- Incidence Rate of GRB-Host DLAs at High Redshift (2008) (14)
- NGC 4261 and NGC 4697: Rejuvenated Elliptical Galaxies (2003) (13)
- Starbursts in the nuclei of shell galaxies (1992) (13)
- Cosmological Constraints from High-Redshift Damped Lyα Systems (1997) (11)
- Bending instabilities in galaxy merger remnants (1993) (10)
- Dynamical Stability of N-Body Models for M32 with a Central Black Hole (1997) (10)
- Simulating Cosmic Structure Formation (1997) (9)
- Hubble Flow Broadening of the Lyman-alpha Forest and its Implications (1997) (9)
- Computer Models of Colliding Galaxies (1993) (9)
- A post-core-collapse model for the nucleus of M33 (1991) (8)
- On the Crystal Structure of the β′1‐Form of Triglycerides and the Mechanism behind the β′1 → β Transition of Fats (1988) (7)
- Fueling Activity in Galactic Nuclei a (1989) (7)
- Sub-mm Galaxies in Cosmological Simulations (2001) (7)
- COSMOLOGY WITH THE LYMAN-ALPHA FOREST (1998) (7)
- Smooth particle hydrodynamics: Models, applications, and enabling technologies (1997) (6)
- A comparison of two algorithms for simulating collisionless systems (1995) (6)
- The observability of metal lines associated with the Ly alpha forest (1997) (6)
- The Influence of Ωb on High-Redshift Structure (2001) (5)
- Inferring Galaxy Viewing Angles (1995) (5)
- Mass-Transfer Induced Activity in Galaxies: Dynamics of Gas in Major Mergers (Invited paper) (1994) (5)
- The Fueling of Active Galaxies (1991) (4)
- Mergers and the Origin of Early-Type Galaxies (1993) (4)
- SINKING SATELLITES AND DISK HEATING OF SPIRAL GALAXIES (1989) (4)
- Pittsburgh: A Model Center for Galaxies (1993) (4)
- Cosmological Simulations with Scale-Free Initial Conditions. I. Adiabatic Hydrodynamics (1997) (4)
- Implementing an efficient collisionless N-body code on the Cray T3D (1997) (3)
- Small Scale Structure and High Redshift HI (1995) (3)
- A Novel Mechanism for Creating Double Pulsars (1992) (3)
- Overview - Theoretical Modeling of the High Redshift Galaxy Population (1999) (3)
- Characterization of Lyman Alpha Spectra and Predictions of Structure Formation Models: A Flux Statistics Approach (1997) (2)
- A Merger Origin for X-structures in S 0 (1995) (2)
- Shells and the Potential Wells of Elliptical Galaxies (1987) (2)
- Numerical Simulation of the Sub-Mm Galaxies (2001) (2)
- SIMULATIONS OF DAMPED LYMAN-ALPHA AND LYMAN LIMIT ABSORBERS IN DIFFERENT COSMOLOGIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR STRUCTURE FORMATION AT HIGH REDSHIFT (2018) (1)
- Phoenix galaxies (1992) (1)
- Constraining dark halos with tidal tails (1997) (1)
- Cosmology from the structure of the Lyman-alpha forest (1998) (1)
- Nuclear Distribution of Gas in Shell Galaxies (1993) (1)
- The Nature of Lyman Break Galaxies in Cosmological Hydrodynamic Simulations (1999) (1)
- An Environment for Experiments in Stellar Dynamics (1988) (1)
- Cosmology from the Structure of the Lyα Forest (1998) (1)
- The Opacity of the Lyman Alpha Forest and Implications for Ω baryon and the Ionizing Background 1 (1996) (1)
- The Role of Stellar Evolution, Galactic Tides, and a Stellar Mass Spectrum on Globular Cluster Evolution (1988) (1)
- Implementation of a Tree Code for Cosmology (1988) (1)
- Evolution of Clustering and Bias in a Lambda-CDM Universe (1999) (1)
- Building Galaxies with Simulations (2005) (1)
- Mass-Transfer Induced Activity in Galaxies: Gas in Shell Galaxies: Non-Spherical Potentials ( Poster paper ) (1994) (1)
- Simulating Gas at High Redshift (1998) (1)
- Mergers to Bars to Boxy Bulges: A Galaxy Evolution Story (1996) (1)
- Closing in on Omega(M): The amplitude of mass fluctuations from galaxy clusters and the Ly alpha forest (2018) (0)
- Incidence Rate of GRB‐host‐DLAs (2008) (0)
- ar X iv : a st ro-p h / 01 07 29 3 v 1 1 6 Ju l 2 00 1 THE INFLUENCE OF Ω baryon ON HIGH-REDSHIFT STRUCTURE (2001) (0)
- 0 v 1 1 6 M ay 2 00 0 HIGH-REDSHIFT GALAXIES IN COLD DARK MATTER MODELS (2008) (0)
- Analysis of the Lyman-alpha Forest in Cosmological Simulations Using Voigt-Profile Decomposition (1996) (0)
- Triaxial Halos and Cusps (1998) (0)
- Metal Lines in Cosmological Models of Lyman (1997) (0)
- HST observations of NGC 6240 (2001) (0)
- Simulating the effects of massive black holes on the structure of elliptical galaxies using a massively parallel N--body code (1993) (0)
- An HST study of the double nucleus in the ULIRG NGC 6240 (2001) (0)
- The opacity of the Ly alpha forest and implications for Omega ( b ) and the ionizing background (2018) (0)
- Studying Reionization Using Redshifted 21 cm Emission (2004) (0)
- Testing the Cosmological Implications of the X-ray Substructure in Clusters of Galaxies (1995) (0)
- Flaring of gas in galactic disks (2008) (0)
- Gas distribution and starbursts in shell galaxies (1993) (0)
- Metal Lines in Cosmological Models of Lyman-Alpha Absorbers (1997) (0)
- TIDAL ORIGIN OF STARBURSTS AND ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI (1989) (0)
- Metal Lines in the Cosmological Models of Lyα Absorbers (1998) (0)
- The role of mergers and AGN in the form & evolution of the galaxy population (2011) (0)
- Testing Cosmological Models Using Damped Lyman-Alpha Absorbers (1997) (0)
- Measuring mass loss rates from satellites 1 (1998) (0)
- Populations of Globular Clusters in Merger Remnants (1994) (0)
- Group Scaling Relations From a Cosmological Hydrodynamic Simulation: No Pre-heating Required? (2001) (0)
- Numerical Constraints on the Nature of High-Redshift Damped Lyman Alpha Systems (2001) (0)
- Experiments in Galaxy Formation (1988) (0)
- The Formation, Evolution, and Multi-Band Properties of z ̃ 6 Quasars and Their Galaxy Progenitors (2008) (0)
- The influence of Omega(b) on high-redshift structure (2018) (0)
- The good companions (1991) (0)
- Comparing Simulations and Observations of the Lyalpha Forest (1996) (0)
- Neutron Star Crusts a (1991) (0)
- CONSTRAINTS ON COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS FROM THE Lya FOREST POWER SPECTRUM (2001) (0)
- Merger-Induced Starbursts and Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies (1994) (0)
- Measuring Ω baryon and the Ionizing Radiation Background from the Opacity of the Lyman Alpha Forest (1997) (0)
- Secular Evolution of Barred Galaxies with Central Massive Black Holes (1999) (0)
- SPH Simulations of the Early Universe (1996) (0)
- Starbursts in Galaxy Mergers (1993) (0)
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