Christopher F. McKee

Research.com Recognitions

• 1999 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1998 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• 1996 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 1992 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1985 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For theoretical astrophysical investigations of the structure of astrophysical shocks, the evolution of supernova remnants, the structure of the interstellar medium, the dynamics of evaporating clouds, and the interpretation of quasar spectra

Overview

Best Publications

• A theory of the interstellar medium - Three components regulated by supernova explosions in an inhomogeneous substrate

  C.F. McKee;J.P. Ostriker

  3168
  Citations

• Theory of Star Formation

  Christopher F. McKee;Eve Charis Ostriker

  2814
  Citations

• Fluid dynamics of relativistic blast waves

  R. D. Blandford;C. F. McKee

  1541
  Citations

• A General Theory of Turbulence-Regulated Star Formation, From Spirals to ULIRGs

  Mark R. Krumholz;Christopher F. McKee

  1487
  Citations

• The Neutral Atomic Phases of the ISM in the Galaxy

  M. G. Wolfire;C. F. McKee;D. Hollenbach;A. G. G. M. Tielens

  1482
  Citations

• Reverberation mapping of the emission line regions of Seyfert galaxies and quasars.

  R. D. Blandford;C. F. McKee

  1422
  Citations

• Molecule Formation and Infrared Emission in Fast Interstellar Shocks. III. Results for J Shocks in Molecular Clouds

  David Hollenbach;Christopher F. McKee

  1279
  Citations

• Neutral Atomic Phases of the Interstellar Medium in the Galaxy

  Mark G. Wolfire;Christopher F. McKee;David Hollenbach;A. G. G. M. Tielens

  1166
  Citations

• Molecule formation and infrared emission in fast interstellar shocks. I Physical processes

  D. Hollenbach;C.F. McKee

  1132
  Citations

• A general theory of turbulence-regulated star formation, from spirals to ultraluminous infrared galaxies

  Mark R. Krumholz;Christopher F. McKee

  1103
  Citations

• The evaporation of spherical clouds in a hot gas. I - Classical and saturated mass loss rates

  L. L. Cowie;C. F. McKee

  1089
  Citations

• The Formation of Massive Stars from Turbulent Cores

  Christopher F. McKee;Jonathan C. Tan

  1070
  Citations

• The neutral atomic phases of the interstellar medium

  M. G. Wolfire;D. Hollenbach;C. F. Mckee;A. G. G. M. Tielens

  1048
  Citations

• Pressure-confined clumps in magnetized molecular clouds

  Frank Bertoldi;Christopher F. Mckee

  1008
  Citations

• The Jeans Condition: A New Constraint on Spatial Resolution in Simulations of Isothermal Self-gravitational Hydrodynamics

  J. Kelly Truelove;J. Kelly Truelove;Richard I. Klein;Richard I. Klein;Christopher F. McKee;John H. Holliman;John H. Holliman

  978
  Citations

• On the hydrodynamic interaction of shock waves with interstellar clouds. 1: Nonradiative shocks in small clouds

  Richard I. Klein;Christopher F. Mckee;Philip Colella

  860
  Citations

• Two-phase models of quasar emission line regions

  J. H. Krolik;C. F. Mckee;C. B. Tarter

  846
  Citations

• The Dark Molecular Gas

  Mark G. Wolfire;David Hollenbach;Christopher F. McKee

  756
  Citations

• Photoionization-regulated Star Formation and the Structure of Molecular Clouds

  Christopher F. Mckee

  740
  Citations

• Theory of Interstellar Shocks

  Bruce T. Draine;Christopher F. McKee

  713
  Citations