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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Initial Conditions of Magnetized AGN Accretion Disks from Cloud Capture and Disruption

Philip F. Hopkins

Accretion onto supermassive black holes (BHs) from the ISM can occur via capture of cold gas 'clouds' (GMCs, clumps, or overdense structures). Unlike material in stellar tidal disr…

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-…