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19942023
most citedTheory of Star Formation

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111 papers

astro-ph.GA2023★ 60 cited

Nitrogen-enriched, highly-pressurized nebular clouds surrounding a super star cluster at cosmic noon

Massimo Pascale, Liang Dai, Christopher F. McKee +1

Strong lensing offers a precious opportunity for studying the formation and early evolution of super star clusters that are rare in our cosmic backyard. The Sunburst Arc, a lensed…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 36 cited

Magnetic fields in the formation of the first stars.--II Results

Athena Stacy, Christopher F. McKee, Aaron T. Lee +2

Beginning with cosmological initial conditions at z=100, we simulate the effects of magnetic fields on the formation of Population III stars and compare our results with the predic…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 42 cited

Mapping the magnetic field in the Taurus/B211 filamentary cloud with SOFIA HAWC+ and comparing with simulation

Pak Shing Li, Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez, Hamza Ajeddig +4

Optical and infrared polarization mapping and recent Planck observations of the filamentary cloud L1495 in Taurus show that the large-scale magnetic field is approximately perpendi…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 10 cited

Infrared dust echoes from neutron star mergers

Wenbin Lu, Christopher F. McKee, Kunal P. Mooley

A significant fraction of binary neutron star mergers occur in star-forming galaxies where the UV-optical and soft X-ray afterglow emission from the relativistic jet may be absorbe…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 51 cited

Magnetic Fields in the Formation of the First Stars. I. Theory vs. Simulation

Christopher F. McKee, Athena Stacy, Pak Shing Li

While magnetic fields are important in contemporary star formation, their role in primordial star formation is unknown. Magnetic fields of order 10^-16 G are produced by the Bierma…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 71 cited

Massive Warm/Hot Galaxy Coronae: II. Isentropic Model

Yakov Faerman, Amiel Sternberg, Christopher F. McKee

We construct a new analytic phenomenological model for the extended circumgalactic material (CGM) of galaxies. Our model reproduces the OVII/OVIII absorption observations of…