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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1998 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1987 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Mitchell C. Begelman is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research focuses on the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a total of 173 publications contributing to this domain.

The subfields in which they have published include:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Computational Mechanics
  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • General Health Professions

Key topics covered in their work encompass:

  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
  • Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
  • Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
  • History and Developments in Astronomy

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Dmitri Uzdensky
  • G. Werner
  • Jason Dexter
  • M. J. Rees
  • Vladimir Zhdankin

Mitchell C. Begelman has published extensively in the following venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters

Selected recent papers include:

  • First-principles Demonstration of Diffusive-advective Particle Acceleration in Kinetic Simulations of Relativistic Plasma Turbulence, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Which Came First: Supermassive Black Holes or Galaxies? Insights from JWST, 2024, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Magnetic flux inversion in a peculiar changing look AGN, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters
  • Kinetic turbulence in shining pair plasma: intermittent beaming and thermalization by radiative cooling, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Kinetic beaming in radiative relativistic magnetic reconnection: a mechanism for rapid gamma-ray flares in jets, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Begelman has authored a book titled Gravity's Fatal Attraction, published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press.

Over the course of their career, they have received recognition from major foundations, including the Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1998 and the Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1987.

Best Publications

  • Theory of extragalactic radio sources

    Mitchell C. Begelman;Roger D. Blandford;Martin J. Rees

  • Massive black hole binaries in active galactic nuclei

    M. C. Begelman;R. D. Blandford;M. J. Rees

  • On the Fate of Gas Accreting at a Low Rate onto a Black Hole

    Roger D. Blandford;Mitchell C. Begelman

  • Comptonization of Diffuse Ambient Radiation by a Relativistic Jet: The Source of Gamma Rays from Blazars?

    Marek Sikora;Mitchell C. Begelman;Martin J. Rees

  • On the fate of gas accreting at a low rate on to a black hole

    Roger D. Blandford;Mitchell C. Begelman

  • Ion-supported tori and the origin of radio jets

    M. J. Rees;M. C. Begelman;M. C. Begelman;R. D. Blandford;E. S. Phinney

  • Bars within bars - A mechanism for fuelling active galactic nuclei

    Isaac Shlosman;Isaac Shlosman;Juhan Frank;Mitchell C. Begelman;Mitchell C. Begelman

  • Formation of Supermassive Black Holes by Direct Collapse in Pregalactic Halos

    Mitchell C. Begelman;Marta Volonteri;Martin J. Rees

  • Formation of supermassive black holes by direct collapse in pre-galactic haloes

    Mitchell C. Begelman;Mitchell C. Begelman;Marta Volonteri;Martin J. Rees

  • Molecular tori in Seyfert galaxies - Feeding the monster and hiding it

    Julian H. Krolik;Mitchell C. Begelman

  • Overpressured cocoons in extragalactic radio sources

    Mitchell C. Begelman;Denis F. Cioffi

  • Compton heated winds and coronae above accretion disks. I. Dynamics

    M. C. Begelman;C. F. McKee;G. A. Shields

  • The fuelling of active galactic nuclei

    Isaac Shlosman;Mitchell C. Begelman;Julian Frank

  • Massive black hole binary mergers within sub-pc scale gas discs

    J. Cuadra;P. J. Armitage;R. D. Alexander;M. C. Begelman

  • Rossi X‐Ray Timing Explorer Observation of Cygnus X‐1. II. Timing Analysis

    Michael A. Nowak;Brian A. Vaughan;Jörn Wilms;James B. Dove;James B. Dove

  • Super-Eddington Fluxes from Thin Accretion Disks?

    Mitchell C. Begelman

  • Fast TeV variability in blazars: jets in a jet

    Dimitrios Giannios;Dmitri A. Uzdensky;Mitchell C. Begelman

  • XMM-EPIC observation of MCG-6-30-15: direct evidence for the extraction of energy from a spinning black hole?

    Jörn Wilms;Christopher S. Reynolds;Christopher S. Reynolds;Mitchell C. Begelman;James Reeves

  • XMM-EPIC observation of MCG-6-30-15: Direct evidence for the extraction of energy from aspinning black hole?

    Joern Wilms;Christopher S. Reynolds;Mitchell C. Begelman;James Reeves

  • Filaments, Bubbles, and Weak Shocks in the Gaseous Atmosphere of M87

    W. Forman;E.Churazov;C. Jones;M. Markevitch

Frequent Co-Authors

Davide Lazzati
Davide Lazzati Oregon State University
Michael A. Nowak
Michael A. Nowak Washington University in St. Louis
Christopher S. Reynolds
Christopher S. Reynolds University of Cambridge
Jörn Wilms
Jörn Wilms University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Philip J. Armitage
Philip J. Armitage Stony Brook University
Martin J. Rees
Martin J. Rees University of Cambridge
Roger Blandford
Roger Blandford Stanford University
C. C. Cheung
C. C. Cheung United States Naval Research Laboratory
Zhi-Yun Li
Zhi-Yun Li University of Virginia
Eric S. Perlman
Eric S. Perlman Florida Institute of Technology

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