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  • 2014 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Philip F. Hopkins is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a significant focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics as the main subfield of study.

Their body of work covers major scientific topics including galaxies' formation, evolution, and phenomena, astrophysics and star formation studies, astronomy and astrophysical research, stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, astrophysical phenomena and observations, astrophysics and cosmic phenomena, as well as dark matter and cosmic phenomena.

Frequent publication venues for their work include the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, arXiv (Cornell University), The Astrophysical Journal, The Open Journal of Astrophysics, and The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Significant recent papers authored by Philip F. Hopkins feature:

  • The bolometric quasar luminosity function at z = 0-7, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Properties of the circumgalactic medium in cosmic ray-dominated galaxy haloes, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • STARFORGE: Towards a comprehensive numerical model of star cluster formation and feedback, 2021, 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
  • The dynamics and outcome of star formation with jets, radiation, winds, and supernovae in concert, 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Frequent collaborators with Philip F. Hopkins include Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Andrew Wetzel, Dušan Kereš, Eliot Quataert, and Michael Y Grudić.

In recognition of their work, Philip F. Hopkins received the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

    B. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • GW170817: observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • GW151226: observation of gravitational waves from a 22-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • A Unified, Merger-Driven Model for the Origin of Starbursts, Quasars, the Cosmic X-Ray Background, Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxy Spheroids

    Philip F. Hopkins;Lars Hernquist;Thomas J. Cox;Tiziana Di Matteo

  • CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey - The Hubble Space Telescope Observations, Imaging Data Products and Mosaics

    Anton M. Koekemoer;S. M. Faber;Henry C. Ferguson;Norman A. Grogin

  • GW170814: A three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State.

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey

    Norman A. Grogin;Dale D. Kocevski;S. M. Faber;Henry C. Ferguson

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

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

  • 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

  • Tests of general relativity with GW150914

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • A Unified, Merger-driven Model of the Origin of Starbursts, Quasars, the Cosmic X-Ray Background, Supermassive Black Holes, and Galaxy Spheroids

    Philip F. Hopkins;Lars Hernquist;Thomas J. Cox;Tiziana Di Matteo

  • Binary Black Hole Mergers in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • Candels: The cosmic assembly near-infrared deep extragalactic legacy survey - The hubble space telescope observations, imaging data products, and mosaics

    Anton M. Koekemoer;S. M. Faber;Henry C. Ferguson;Norman A. Grogin

  • 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

  • GW170608: Observation of a 19-solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • GW170608: Observation of a 19 solar-mass binary black hole coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • A semi-analytic model for the co-evolution of galaxies, black holes and active galactic nuclei

    Rachel S. Somerville;Philip F. Hopkins;Thomas J. Cox;Brant E. Robertson

Frequent Co-Authors

Claude André Faucher-Giguère
Claude André Faucher-Giguère Northwestern University
Dušan Kereš
Dušan Kereš University of California, San Diego
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
Lars Hernquist
Lars Hernquist Harvard University
Brant Robertson
Brant Robertson University of California, Santa Cruz
James S. Bullock
James S. Bullock University of California, Irvine
Volker Springel
Volker Springel Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Romeel Davé
Romeel Davé University of Edinburgh

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