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Sadegh Khochfar is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom, specializing in the broad field of Physics and Astronomy with a focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Their research output includes over 100 publications, featuring prominently in the subfields of Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Computational Mechanics, and Artificial Intelligence. This diverse specialization reflects an interdisciplinary approach to astrophysical phenomena and related computational methods.

Their scholarly work addresses several key topics within astrophysics, including:

  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae

Khochfar has contributed extensively to a variety of scientific journals and venues, with a significant presence in the:

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

Recent publications illustrate current research directions and collaborations. Noteworthy papers include:

  • "Turbulent cold flows gave birth to the first quasars," 2022, published in Nature
  • "The Birth Mass Function of Population III Stars," 2022, The Astrophysical Journal
  • "Starbursting [O iii] emitters and quiescent [C ii] emitters in the reionization era," 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • "Radiation hydrodynamical simulations of the birth of intermediate-mass black holes in the first galaxies," 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • "FOREVER22: the first bright galaxies with Population III stars at redshifts z ≃ 10-20 and comparisons with JWST data," 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Frequent collaborators include colleagues such as Britton Smith, Muhammad Latif, Hidenobu Yajima, Makito Abe, and José Oñorbe, reflecting ongoing joint research efforts across multiple astrophysical domains.

Best Publications

  • The ATLAS3D project – I. A volume-limited sample of 260 nearby early-type galaxies: science goals and selection criteria

    Michele Cappellari;Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Davor Krajnović;Richard M. Mcdermid

  • The ATLAS3D project – XX. Mass–size and mass–σ distributions of early-type galaxies: bulge fraction drives kinematics, mass-to-light ratio, molecular gas fraction and stellar initial mass function

    Michele Cappellari;Richard M. McDermid;Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz

  • Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series

    P. Serra;Raffaella Morganti;Thomas Oosterloo;K. Alatalo

  • The ATLAS3D project – III. A census of the stellar angular momentum within the effective radius of early‐type galaxies: unveiling the distribution of fast and slow rotators

    Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Michele Cappellari;Davor Krajnović;Katherine Alatalo

  • Systematic variation of the stellar initial mass function in early-type galaxies

    Michele Cappellari;Richard M. McDermid;Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz

  • The ATLAS3D project XV: benchmark for early-type galaxies scaling relations from 260 dynamical models: mass-to-light ratio, dark matter, fundamental plane and mass plane

    Michele Cappellari;Nicholas Scott;Nicholas Scott;Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz

  • Mergers and Bulge Formation in Lambda-CDM: Which Mergers Matter?

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

  • The Atlas3D project -- XIII. Mass and morphology of HI in early-type galaxies as a function of environment

    Paolo Serra;Tom Oosterloo;Raffaella Morganti;Katherine Alatalo

  • The ATLAS3D project - II. Morphologies, kinemetric features and alignment between photometric and kinematic axes of early-type galaxies

    Davor Krajnović;Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Michele Cappellari;Katherine Alatalo

  • UV-optical colours as probes of early-type galaxy evolution

    S. Kaviraj;K. Schawinski;J. E. G. Devriendt;I. Ferreras

  • The ATLAS3D project - VII. A new look at the morphology of nearby galaxies: the kinematic morphology-density relation

    Michele Cappellari;Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Davor Krajnović;Richard M. McDermid

  • Discovery of an AGN-Driven Molecular Outflow in the Local Early-Type Galaxy NGC 1266

    Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz;Lisa M. Young;Timothy A. Davis

  • The ATLAS3D Project - XXX. Star formation histories and stellar population scaling relations of early-type galaxies

    Richard M. McDermid;Richard M. McDermid;Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz;Frédéric Bournaud

  • The ATLAS3D project - XIII. Mass and morphology of H I in early-type galaxies as a function of environment

    Paolo Serra;Tom Oosterloo;Tom Oosterloo;Raffaella Morganti;Raffaella Morganti;Katherine Alatalo

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

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

  • A deep ALMA image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field

    James Dunlop;Ross McLure;A. D. Biggs;J. E. Geach

  • The ATLAS3D project – IV. The molecular gas content of early-type galaxies

    Lisa M. Young;Martin Bureau;Timothy A. Davis;Francoise Combes

  • UV-optical colors as probes of early-type galaxy evolution

    S. Kaviraj;K. Schawinski;J. E. G. Devriendt;I. Ferreras;I. Ferreras

  • The Atlas3D project - X. On the origin of the molecular and ionised gas in early-type galaxies

    Timothy A. Davis;Katherine Alatalo;Marc Sarzi;Martin Bureau

  • PROPERTIES OF EARLY-TYPE, DRY GALAXY MERGERS AND THE ORIGIN OF MASSIVE ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES

    Thorsten Naab;Sadegh Khochfar;Andreas Burkert

Frequent Co-Authors

Raffaella Morganti
Raffaella Morganti Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
Tom Oosterloo
Tom Oosterloo Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
Richard M. McDermid
Richard M. McDermid Macquarie University
Martin Bureau
Martin Bureau University of Oxford
Michele Cappellari
Michele Cappellari University of Oxford
Marc Sarzi
Marc Sarzi Armagh Observatory
P. T. de Zeeuw
P. T. de Zeeuw Leiden University
Roger L. Davies
Roger L. Davies University of Oxford
Leo Blitz
Leo Blitz University of California, Berkeley
Harald Kuntschner
Harald Kuntschner European Southern Observatory

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