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Rahul Kannan

Massachusetts Institute of Technology · US
Area of research
Astronomy and Astrophysics · Instrumentation
Research interest
Research interests include Physics, Astrophysics, Galaxy, Reionization, Redshift, and Star formation.
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2,203
works
62
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Recent publications

Investigating cosmic strings using large-volume hydrodynamical simulations in the context of JWST’s massive UV-bright galaxies
Astronomy and Astrophysics 2026cited by 4position: lastdoi
Metallicity Gradients in Modern Cosmological Simulations. II. The Role of Bursty versus Smooth Feedback at High Redshift
The Astrophysical Journal 2026cited by 2position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan</scp> project: environmental drivers of Local Group reionization
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2026cited by 2position: middledoi
The THESAN project: Lyman-alpha emitters as probes of ionized bubble sizes
The Open Journal of Astrophysics 2026cited by 1position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan-zoom</scp> project: mystery N/O more – uncovering the origin of peculiar chemical abundances and a not-so-fundamental metallicity relation at 3 &amp;lt; <i>z</i> &amp;lt; 12
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2026cited by 1position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan-zoom</scp> project: The Hidden Neighbours of O  <scp>i</scp> Absorbers during Reionization
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2026cited by 1position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan</scp> project: environmental drivers of Local Group reionization
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2026cited by 0position: middledoi
Identifying Signatures of Inflow onto Face-on Galaxies Using the Balmer Decrement
The Astrophysical Journal 2026cited by 0position: lastdoi
The <scp>thesan-zoom</scp> project: burst, quench, repeat – unveiling the evolution of high-redshift galaxies along the star-forming main sequence
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025cited by 17position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan-zoom</scp> project: central starbursts and inside-out quenching govern galaxy sizes in the early Universe
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025cited by 10position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan-zoom</scp>  project: Population III star formation continues until the end of reionization
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025cited by 8position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan</scp> project: tracking the expansion and merger histories of ionized bubbles during the Epoch of Reionization
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025cited by 5position: middledoi
High-redshift millennium and astrid galaxies in effective field theory at the field level
Physical review. D/Physical review. D. 2025cited by 5position: lastdoi
The <scp>thesan–zoom</scp> project: long-term imprints of external reionization on galaxy evolution
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025cited by 4position: middledoi
Overmassive black holes in the early Universe can be explained by gas-rich, dark matter-dominated galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025cited by 4position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan-zoom</scp> project: star formation efficiencies in high-redshift galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025cited by 4position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan-zoom</scp> project: star formation efficiency from giant molecular clouds to galactic scale in high-redshift starbursts
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025cited by 4position: middledoi
The galaxy-IGM connection in THESAN: the physics connecting the IGM Lyman- <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <a:mi>α</a:mi> </a:math> opacity and galaxy density in the reionization epoch
The Open Journal of Astrophysics 2025cited by 3position: lastdoi
High-redshift AGN population in radiation-hydrodynamics simulations
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025cited by 3position: middledoi
RIGEL: Feedback-regulated cloud-scale star formation efficiency in a simulated dwarf galaxy merger
Astronomy and Astrophysics 2025cited by 1position: middledoi
The MillenniumTNG project: impact of massive neutrinos on the cosmic large-scale structure and the distribution of galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025cited by 1position: middledoi
Measuring the splashback feature: Dependence on halo properties and history
The Open Journal of Astrophysics 2025cited by 0position: middledoi
Evolution of cosmic filaments in the MTNG simulation
Astronomy and Astrophysics 2024cited by 46position: middledoi
The boundary of cosmic filaments
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024cited by 33position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan</scp> project: galaxy sizes during the epoch of reionization
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024cited by 23position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan</scp> project: public data release of radiation-hydrodynamic simulations matching reionization-era <i>JWST</i> observations
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024cited by 21position: middledoi
The <scp>thesan</scp> project: connecting ionized bubble sizes to their local environments during the Epoch of Reionization
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024cited by 21position: middledoi
The nature of diffuse ionized gas in star-forming galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024cited by 19position: middledoi
Adapting <scp>arepo-rt</scp> for exascale computing: GPU acceleration and efficient communication
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024cited by 14position: middledoi
The impact of baryons on the internal structure of dark matter haloes from dwarf galaxies to superclusters in the redshift range 0 &amp;lt; <i>z</i> &amp;lt; 7
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024cited by 11position: lastdoi

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Frequent collaborators

Mark Vogelsberger · Philipps University of Marburg38 papers (2016–2026)Lars Hernquist · University of Southampton36 papers (2016–2026)Aaron Smith · Massachusetts Institute of Technology32 papers (2021–2026) · 29 papers (2021–2026)Volker Springel · Mineral Products Association24 papers (2016–2025)Rüdiger Pakmor · Columbia University23 papers (2016–2025)Xuejian Shen · Massachusetts Institute of Technology17 papers (2022–2026)Josh Borrow · Massachusetts Institute of Technology16 papers (2023–2026)Oliver Zier · Massachusetts Institute of Technology14 papers (2024–2026) · 13 papers (2023–2025) · 12 papers (2023–2025)Sandro Tacchella · Columbia University12 papers (2022–2026)Ewald Puchwein · Arizona State University11 papers (2025–2026)Laura C. Keating · California Institute of Technology11 papers (2025–2026)Boryana Hadzhiyska · Princeton University11 papers (2023–2025)William McClymont · University of Surrey11 papers (2024–2026)Federico Marinacci · Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Bologna9 papers (2018–2025)Simon D. M. White · York University8 papers (2023–2025)Paul Torrey · Massachusetts Institute of Technology7 papers (2018–2026) · 6 papers (2023–2025)