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Dušan Kereš is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of physics and astronomy, with a significant focus on astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, and nuclear and high energy physics. Their work also crosses into related areas such as general health professions and computational mechanics.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics within galaxies, star formation, and cosmic phenomena. Specific research interests include galaxies: formation, evolution, and phenomena; astrophysics and star formation studies; astronomy and astrophysical research; stellar, planetary, and galactic studies; astrophysics and cosmic phenomena; astrophysical phenomena and observations; as well as gamma-ray bursts and supernovae.

Dušan Kereš has published numerous papers, with several appearing in prominent scientific journals. Some recent papers include:

  • Properties of the circumgalactic medium in cosmic ray-dominated galaxy haloes, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • A dark matter profile to model diverse feedback-induced core sizes of ΛCDM haloes, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Characterizing mass, momentum, energy, and metal outflow rates of multiphase galactic winds in the FIRE-2 cosmological simulations, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • No missing photons for reionization: moderate ionizing photon escape fractions from the FIRE-2 simulations, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Virialization of the Inner CGM in the FIRE Simulations and Implications for Galaxy Disks, Star Formation, and Feedback, 2021, The Astrophysical Journal

The scientist has frequently collaborated with other researchers. Their most frequent coauthors are:

  • Philip F. Hopkins
  • Claude-André Faucher-Giguère
  • Eliot Quataert
  • Andrew Wetzel
  • Christopher C. Hayward

Dušan Kereš's work has been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • Nature Astronomy

Best Publications

  • A Cosmological Framework for the Co-Evolution of Quasars, Supermassive Black Holes, and Elliptical Galaxies. I. Galaxy Mergers and Quasar Activity

    Philip F. Hopkins;Lars Hernquist;Thomas J. Cox;Dušan Kereš

  • Galaxies on FIRE (Feedback In Realistic Environments): stellar feedback explains cosmologically inefficient star formation

    Philip F. Hopkins;Philip F. Hopkins;Dušan Kereš;José Oñorbe;Claude André Faucher-Giguère;Claude André Faucher-Giguère

  • FIRE-2 simulations: physics versus numerics in galaxy formation

    Philip F. Hopkins;Andrew Wetzel;Andrew Wetzel;Andrew Wetzel;Dušan Kereš;Claude André Faucher-Giguère

  • Gusty, gaseous flows of FIRE: Galactic winds in cosmological simulations with explicit stellar feedback

    Alexander L. Muratov;Dušan Kereš;Claude André Faucher-Giguère;Philip F. Hopkins

  • The MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) Survey: Rest-frame Optical Spectroscopy for ~1500 H-selected Galaxies at 1.37 ? z ? 3.8

    Mariska Kriek;Alice E. Shapley;Naveen A. Reddy;Brian Siana

  • A Cosmological Framework for the Co-Evolution of Quasars, Supermassive Black Holes, and Elliptical Galaxies: II. Formation of Red Ellipticals

    Philip F. Hopkins;Thomas J. Cox;Dušan Kereš;Lars Hernquist

  • Reconciling dwarf galaxies with LCDM cosmology: Simulating a realistic population of satellites around a Milky Way-mass galaxy

    Andrew R. Wetzel;Philip F. Hopkins;Ji-hoon Kim;Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere

  • RECONCILING DWARF GALAXIES WITH ΛCDM COSMOLOGY: SIMULATING A REALISTIC POPULATION OF SATELLITES AROUND A MILKY WAY–MASS GALAXY

    Andrew R. Wetzel;Andrew R. Wetzel;Andrew R. Wetzel;Philip F. Hopkins;Ji Hoon Kim;Ji Hoon Kim;Claude André Faucher-Giguère

  • Mergers and bulge formation in ΛCDM: Which mergers matter?

    Philip F. Hopkins;Kevin Bundy;Darren Croton;Lars Hernquist

  • The origin and evolution of the galaxy mass–metallicity relation

    Xiangcheng Ma;Philip F. Hopkins;Claude André Faucher-Giguère;Nick Zolman

  • The cosmic baryon cycle and galaxy mass assembly in the FIRE simulations

    Daniel Anglés-Alcázar;Claude André Faucher-Giguère;Dušan Kereš;Philip F. Hopkins

  • Dissipation and Extra Light in Galactic Nuclei. IV. Evolution in the Scaling Relations of Spheroids

    Philip F. Hopkins;Lars Hernquist;Thomas J. Cox;Dusan Keres

  • Forged in FIRE: cusps, cores and baryons in low-mass dwarf galaxies

    Jose Oñorbe;Jose Oñorbe;Michael Boylan-Kolchin;Michael Boylan-Kolchin;James S. Bullock;Philip F. Hopkins

  • The Baryonic Assembly of Dark Matter Halos

    Claude-André Faucher-Giguère;Dušan Kereš;Chung-Pei Ma

  • Moving mesh cosmology: tracing cosmological gas accretion

    Dylan Nelson;Mark Vogelsberger;Shy Genel;Debora Sijacki

  • The impact of baryonic physics on the structure of dark matter haloes: the view from the FIRE cosmological simulations

    T. K. Chan;D. Kereš;J. Oñorbe;P. F. Hopkins

  • SIMULATIONS OF THE MAGELLANIC STREAM IN A FIRST INFALL SCENARIO

    Gurtina Besla;Nitya Kallivayalil;L. Hernquist;R. P. van der Marel

  • Not so lumpy after all: modelling the depletion of dark matter subhaloes by Milky Way-like galaxies

    Shea Garrison-Kimmel;Andrew R. Wetzel;Andrew R. Wetzel;Andrew R. Wetzel;James S. Bullock;Philip F. Hopkins

  • WHAT DOES A SUBMILLIMETER GALAXY SELECTION ACTUALLY SELECT? THE DEPENDENCE OF SUBMILLIMETER FLUX DENSITY ON STAR FORMATION RATE AND DUST MASS

    Christopher C. Hayward;Dušan Kereš;Dušan Kereš;Patrik Jonsson;Desika Narayanan;Desika Narayanan

  • Mergers in Lambda-CDM: Uncertainties in Theoretical Predictions and Interpretations of the Merger Rate

    Philip F. Hopkins;Darren Croton;Kevin Bundy;Sadegh Khochfar

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip F. Hopkins
Philip F. Hopkins California Institute of Technology
Claude André Faucher-Giguère
Claude André Faucher-Giguère Northwestern University
Eliot Quataert
Eliot Quataert Princeton University
Norman Murray
Norman Murray University of Toronto
Michael Boylan-Kolchin
Michael Boylan-Kolchin The University of Texas at Austin
James S. Bullock
James S. Bullock University of California, Irvine
Romeel Davé
Romeel Davé University of Edinburgh
Lars Hernquist
Lars Hernquist Harvard University
Greg L. Bryan
Greg L. Bryan Columbia University
Alice E. Shapley
Alice E. Shapley University of California, Los Angeles

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