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Thorsten Naab

Thorsten Naab

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Physics

D-Index
133
Citations
61508
World Ranking
514
National Ranking
40

Overview

Thorsten Naab is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of physics and astronomy. Their research primarily spans astronomy and astrophysics, with a strong focus on star formation, galactic evolution, and high-energy astrophysical phenomena.

Naab's work covers various subfields including:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Instrumentation
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Spectroscopy

The main research topics addressed in their publications include:

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

Thorsten Naab has published numerous papers in several notable scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

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

Examples of recent papers are:

  • Intermediate mass black hole formation in compact young massive star clusters, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • SILCC VI - Multiphase ISM structure, stellar clustering, and outflows with supernovae, stellar winds, ionizing radiation, and cosmic rays, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Rotation Curves in z ∼ 1-2 Star-forming Disks: Evidence for Cored Dark Matter Distributions, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal
  • Kiloparsec view of a typical star-forming galaxy when the Universe was ∼1 Gyr old, 2021, Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • LYRA I: Simulating the multi-phase ISM of a dwarf galaxy with variable energy supernovae from individual stars, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Frequent co-authors of Thorsten Naab include:

  • Antti Rantala
  • Rodrigo Herrera-Camus
  • Peter H. Johansson
  • D. Lutz
  • Stefanie Walch

Best Publications

  • Galactic star formation and accretion histories from matching galaxies to dark matter haloes

    Benjamin P. Moster;Thorsten Naab;Simon D. M. White

  • A Study of the Gas-Star Formation Relation over Cosmic Time

    R.Genzel;L.J.Tacconi;J.Gracia-Carpio;A.Sternberg

  • PHIBSS: molecular gas content and scaling relations in z~1-3 normal star forming galaxies

    L. J. Tacconi;R. Neri;R. Genzel;F. Combes

  • Constraints on the relationship between stellar mass and halo mass at low and high redshift

    Benjamin P. Moster;Rachel S. Somerville;Rachel S. Somerville;Christian Maulbetsch;Frank C. van den Bosch

  • High molecular gas fractions in normal massive star-forming galaxies in the young Universe

    L. J. Tacconi;R. Genzel;R. Neri;P. Cox

  • The Milky Way's Circular Velocity Curve to 60 kpc and an Estimate of the Dark Matter Halo Mass from Kinematics of ~2400 SDSS Blue Horizontal Branch Stars

    X.-X. Xue;H.-W. Rix;G. Zhao;P. Re Fiorentin

  • A study of the gas–star formation relation over cosmic time

    R. Genzel;L. J. Tacconi;J. Gracia-Carpio;A. Sternberg

  • 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

  • PHIBSS: MOLECULAR GAS CONTENT AND SCALING RELATIONS IN z ∼ 1-3 MASSIVE, MAIN-SEQUENCE STAR-FORMING GALAXIES*

    L. J. Tacconi;R. Neri;R. Genzel;F. Combes

  • 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

  • MINOR MERGERS AND THE SIZE EVOLUTION OF ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES

    Thorsten Naab;Peter H. Johansson;Jeremiah P. Ostriker

  • Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series

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

  • The Milky Way’s Circular Velocity Curve to 60 kpc and an Estimate of the Dark Matter Halo Mass from the Kinematics of ~2400 SDSS Blue Horizontal-Branch Stars

    X. X. Xue;X. X. Xue;H. W. Rix;G. Zhao;P. Re Fiorentin;P. Re Fiorentin

  • Combined CO & Dust Scaling Relations of Depletion Time and Molecular Gas Fractions with Cosmic Time, Specific Star Formation Rate and Stellar Mass

    R. Genzel;L.J. Tacconi;D. Lutz;A. Saintonge

  • 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

  • From Rings to Bulges: Evidence for Rapid Secular Galaxy Evolution at z ~ 2 from Integral Field Spectroscopy in the SINS Survey

    R. Genzel;A. Burkert;N. Bouché;G. Cresci

  • Theoretical Challenges in Galaxy Formation

    Thorsten Naab;Jeremiah P. Ostriker

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

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

  • THE TWO PHASES OF GALAXY FORMATION

    Ludwig Oser;Jeremiah P. Ostriker;Thorsten Naab;Peter H. Johansson

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom Oosterloo
Tom Oosterloo Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
Raffaella Morganti
Raffaella Morganti Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
Richard M. McDermid
Richard M. McDermid Macquarie University
Andreas Burkert
Andreas Burkert Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Michele Cappellari
Michele Cappellari University of Oxford
Roger L. Davies
Roger L. Davies University of Oxford
Sadegh Khochfar
Sadegh Khochfar University of Edinburgh
Harald Kuntschner
Harald Kuntschner European Southern Observatory
Marc Sarzi
Marc Sarzi Armagh Observatory
Martin Bureau
Martin Bureau University of Oxford

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