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most citedFORGE'd in FIRE II: The Formation of Magnetically-Dominated Quasar Accretion Disks from Cosmological Initial Conditions

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astro-ph.GA2026

Stellar mergers and chemical element mixing: implications for the metamorphic stellar evolution in AGN disks

Yanlong Shi, Xiaoshan Huang, Douglas N. C. Lin +1

Chemical mixing during stellar mergers can significantly influence the subsequent evolution of the merger remnant. We perform a suite of three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulation…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

The In Situ Growth of Stellar-mass "Light" Seed Black Holes in Nuclear Star Clusters

Yanlong Shi, Norman Murray

Remnant black holes (BHs) of massive stars (``light seeds'') are a potential origin for supermassive black holes (SMBHs). We use magnetohydrodynamic simulations to study the format…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

Very Massive Stars and High N/O: A Tale of the Nitrogen-enriched Super Star Cluster in the Sunburst Arc

Yanlong Shi, Liang Dai, Norman Murray +3

The lensed Sunburst Arc () hosts a young (--), massive (), compact () Lyman-continuum (LyC) le…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 10 cited

Zooming In On The Multi-Phase Structure of Magnetically-Dominated Quasar Disks: Radiation From Torus to ISCO Across Accretion Rates

Philip F. Hopkins, Kung-Yi Su, Norman Murray +12

Recent radiation-thermochemical-magnetohydrodynamic simulations resolved formation of quasar accretion disks from cosmological scales down to ~300 gravitational radii , argu…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 16 cited

From Seeds to Supermassive Black Holes: Capture, Growth, Migration, and Pairing in Dense Proto-Bulge Environments

Yanlong Shi, Kyle Kremer, Philip F. Hopkins

The origins and mergers of supermassive black holes (BHs) remain a mystery. We describe a scenario from a novel multi-physics simulation featuring rapid (Myr) hyper-E…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 8 cited

Feedback-regulated Seed Black Hole Growth in Star-Forming Molecular Clouds and Galactic Nuclei

Yanlong Shi, Kyle Kremer, Philip F. Hopkins

The detection of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in high-redshift luminous quasars may require a phase of rapid accretion, and as a precondition, substantial gas influx toward see…