Philip F. Hopkins

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20242026

most citedH-AMR FORGE'd in FIRE I: Magnetic state transitions, jet launching and radiative emission in super-Eddington, highly magnetized quasar disks formed from cosmological initial conditions

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astro-ph.HE2026★ 4 cited

Masers and Broad-Line Mapping Favor Magnetically-Dominated AGN Accretion Disks

Philip F. Hopkins, Dalya Baron, Joanna M. Piotrowska

We present a novel and powerful constraint on the physics of supermassive black hole (BH) accretion disks. We show that in the outer disk (radii $R ≳ 0.01$ pc or $\gtrsim 10…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 3 cited

Thick Disks, Thin Hopes: Suppressed Capture and Merger Rates in AGN

Yashvardhan Tomar, Philip F. Hopkins, Kyle Kremer

Multiple models have been suggested over the years to explain the structure and support of accretion disks around supermassive black holes, from the standard thin thermal-pressure-…