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Xiangcheng Ma

University of Arizona · US
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Area of research
Astronomy and Astrophysics · Instrumentation
Research interest
Research interests include Physics, Astrophysics, Galaxy, Star formation, Metallicity, and Redshift.
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Recent publications

Public Data Release of the FIRE-2 Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations of Galaxy Formation
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 2023cited by 122position: middledoi
Inspiraling streams of enriched gas observed around a massive galaxy 11 billion years ago
Science 2023cited by 34position: middledoi
FIRE-3: updated stellar evolution models, yields, and microphysics and fitting functions for applications in galaxy simulations
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2022cited by 120position: middledoi
Virialization of the Inner CGM in the FIRE Simulations and Implications for Galaxy Disks, Star Formation, and Feedback
The Astrophysical Journal 2021cited by 128position: middledoi
Gas-phase metallicity gradients of TNG50 star-forming galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2021cited by 89position: middledoi
The bursty origin of the Milky Way thick disc
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2021cited by 71position: middledoi
No missing photons for reionization: moderate ionizing photon escape fractions from the FIRE-2 simulations
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2020cited by 131position: firstdoi
Self-consistent proto-globular cluster formation in cosmological simulations of high-redshift galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2020cited by 99position: firstdoi
The impact of AGN wind feedback in simulations of isolated galaxies with a multiphase ISM
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2020cited by 65position: middledoi
On the dust temperatures of high-redshift galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2019cited by 141position: middledoi
Dust attenuation, dust emission, and dust temperature in galaxies at z ≥ 5: a view from the FIRE-2 simulations
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2019cited by 129position: firstdoi
Radiative stellar feedback in galaxy formation: Methods and physics
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2019cited by 105position: middledoi
Predictions for the spatial distribution of the dust continuum emission in $\boldsymbol {1\,\lt\, z\,\lt\, 5}$ star-forming galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2019cited by 91position: middledoi
The failure of stellar feedback, magnetic fields, conduction, and morphological quenching in maintaining red galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2019cited by 65position: middledoi
Cosmic rays or turbulence can suppress cooling flows (where thermal heating or momentum injection fail)
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2019cited by 55position: middledoi
FIRE-2 simulations: physics versus numerics in galaxy formation
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2018cited by 1,097position: middledoi
Simulating galaxies in the reionization era with FIRE-2: galaxy scaling relations, stellar mass functions, and luminosity functions
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2018cited by 187position: firstdoi
The origin of the diverse morphologies and kinematics of Milky Way-mass galaxies in the FIRE-2 simulations
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2018cited by 134position: middledoi
The physics of Lyman α escape from high-redshift galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2018cited by 113position: middledoi
Simulating galaxies in the reionization era with FIRE-2: morphologies and sizes
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2018cited by 78position: firstdoi
Feedback first: the surprisingly weak effects of magnetic fields, viscosity, conduction and metal diffusion on sub-L* galaxy formation
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2017cited by 174position: middledoi
Modelling chemical abundance distributions for dwarf galaxies in the Local Group: the impact of turbulent metal diffusion
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2017cited by 170position: middledoi
Metal flows of the circumgalactic medium, and the metal budget in galactic haloes
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2017cited by 169position: middledoi
The structure and dynamical evolution of the stellar disc of a simulated Milky Way-mass galaxy
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2017cited by 161position: firstdoi
Formation of globular cluster candidates in merging proto-galaxies at high redshift: a view from the FIRE cosmological simulations
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2017cited by 93position: middledoi
Why do high-redshift galaxies show diverse gas-phase metallicity gradients?
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2017cited by 88position: firstdoi
Binary stars can provide the ‘missing photons’ needed for reionization
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2016cited by 151position: firstdoi
The origin and evolution of the galaxy mass–metallicity relation
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2015cited by 432position: firstdoi
The difficulty of getting high escape fractions of ionizing photons from high-redshift galaxies: a view from the FIRE cosmological simulations
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2015cited by 152position: firstdoi

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Frequent collaborators

Philip F. Hopkins · University of California, Berkeley25 papers (2015–2022)Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère · Northwestern University25 papers (2015–2022)Dušan Kereš · University of California San Diego25 papers (2015–2022)Eliot Quataert · Princeton University17 papers (2015–2022)Christopher C. Hayward · California Institute of Technology11 papers (2017–2022)Andrew Wetzel · California Institute of Technology11 papers (2017–2022)Robert Feldmann · California Institute of Technology10 papers (2017–2022)Norman Murray · Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics8 papers (2015–2021)Daniel Anglés‐Alcázar · University of Connecticut6 papers (2017–2022)Michael Boylan-Kolchin · The University of Texas at Austin5 papers (2018–2022)Michael Y Grudić · California Institute of Technology4 papers (2017–2022)T K Chan · Chinese University of Hong Kong4 papers (2017–2021)Zachary Hafen · University of California, Irvine4 papers (2017–2021)Kung-Yi Su · Columbia University4 papers (2017–2022)Paul Torrey · Massachusetts Institute of Technology4 papers (2017–2021)Shea Garrison-Kimmel · California Institute of Technology4 papers (2017–2018)Victor H. Robles · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute3 papers (2017–2019)M. Orr · California Institute of Technology3 papers (2019–2022)Jonathan Stern · New York University3 papers (2021–2022)James S. Bullock · California Institute of Technology3 papers (2018–2022)
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