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Michael Boylan-Kolchin
astro-ph.GAastro-ph.COhep-phastro-ph.SRastro-phastro-ph.IMgalaxiesastro-ph.HEdwarf – galaxiesevolution – galaxies
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HETDEX Public Source Catalog 1: 220K Sources Including Over 50K Lyman Alpha Emitters from an Untargeted Wide-area Spectroscopic Survey
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Preprints & journals
207 papers in the corpus · 2000–2026The Ashes of Supermassive Stars: Globular Cluster-like Aluminum Enhancement in Little Red Dots2609.09271v1 · V. Kokorev, J. Chisholm, R. P. Naidu et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
JWST Reveals a Candidate Supermassive Black Hole Binary at z=4.3 in the Brightest Sub-millimeter Galaxy in COSMOS-Web2609.01711v1 · Jed McKinney, Ansh Gupta, Julian B. Munoz et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
Early Supermassive Black Holes and Little Red Dots Require Free-Fall Growth2609.00115v1 · Junehyoung Jeon, Volker Bromm, Michael Boylan-Kolchin et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
Resolving galaxy formation in the early Universe with BonFIRE and CampFIRE2605.24104v1 · Jenna Samuel, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Robert Feldmann et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
From protogalaxy through thick and thin: Why did the Milky Way evolve in three kinematic phases?2605.22806v2 · Olti Myrtaj, James S. Bullock, Michael Boylan-Kolchin et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
Beyond Cloud-9: The case for discovering more HI-rich failed halos2604.27047v2 · Jorge Moreno, Coral Wheeler, Francisco J. Mercado et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
Little Red Dots as Globular Clusters in Formation2602.15935v2 · John Chisholm, Danielle A. Berg, Michael Boylan-Kolchin et al.2026 · 8 citationsarXiv
Dwarf Galaxy Number Counts within 25 Mpc: Predictions from Local Group Analogues in TNG502602.06224v1 · Evangela E. Shread, Joanna M. Piotrowska, Daniel R. Weisz et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
Igniting galaxy formation in the post-reionization universe2511.03785v2 · Jorge Moreno, Coral Wheeler, Francisco J. Mercado et al.2025 · 3 citationsarXiv
Hot accretion onto spiral galaxies: the origin of extended and warped HI discs2511.03793v3 · Sriram Sankar, Jonathan Stern, Chris Power et al.2025 · 2 citationsMon Not R Astron Soc (2026)
Rise of the forsaken relics: connecting present-day stellar streams and phase-mixed galaxies to the Epoch of Reionization2510.17968v3 · Aritra Kundu, Robyn Sanderson, Adam Lidz et al.2025 · 2 citationsThe Astrophysical Journal, Volume 999, Issue 1, id.124, 29 pp, March 2026
The Cosmic Rush Hour: Rapid Formation of Bright, Massive, Disky, Star-Forming Galaxies as Signatures of Early-Universe Physics2509.19427v1 · Xuejian Shen, Oliver Zier, Mark Vogelsberger et al.2025 · 1 citationMon Not R Astron Soc (2026)
Second public data release of the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation2508.06608v2 · Andrew Wetzel, Jenna Samuel, Pratik J. Gandhi et al.2025 · 1 citationarXiv
How invisible stellar halos bias our understanding of ultra-faint galaxies2506.15785v1 · Coral Wheeler, Jorge Moreno, M. Katy Rodriguez Wimberly et al.2025 · 2 citationsarXiv
Pickles on FIRE: The 3D Shape Evolution of Simulated Milky Way-Mass Galaxies2506.08508v2 · Luke Y. Xia, Courtney Klein, Jenny D. Wang et al.2025 · 1 citationMon Not R Astron Soc (2026)
The Absolute Age of Milky Way Globular Clusters2505.02969v1 · Jiaqi (Martin) Ying, Brian Chaboyer, Michael Boylan-Kolchin et al.2025 · 11 citationsarXiv
How do Massive Primordial Black Holes Impact the Formation of the First Stars and Galaxies?2503.17585v2 · Saiyang Zhang, Boyuan Liu, Volker Bromm et al.2025 · 18 citationsarXiv
Bloodhound Unleashed: Particle-based Substructure Tracking for Cosmological Simulations2503.10766v2 · Hyunsu Kong, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, James S. Bullock2025 · 2 citationsarXiv
Central densities of dark matter halos in FIRE-2 simulations of low-mass galaxies with cold dark matter and self-interacting dark matter2501.16602v2 · Maria C. Straight, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, James S. Bullock et al.2025 · 7 citationsMon Not R Astron Soc (2025) 1995-2005
The Hubble Space Telescope Survey of M31 Satellite Galaxies IV. Survey Overview and Lifetime Star Formation Histories2501.13152v1 · A. Savino, D. R. Weisz, A. E. Dolphin et al.2025 · 21 citationsarXiv
Accelerated by Dark Matter: a High-redshift Pathway to Efficient Galaxy-scale Star Formation2407.10900v2 · Michael Boylan-Kolchin2024 · 27 citationsMon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 538 (2025), 3210-3218
Stellar Metallicities and Gradients in the Faint M31 Satellites Andromeda XVI and Andromeda XXVIII2407.04698v1 · Sal Wanying Fu, Daniel R. Weisz, Else Starkenburg et al.2024 · 5 citationsarXiv
Elevated UV luminosity density at Cosmic Dawn explained by non-evolving, weakly mass-dependent star formation efficiency2407.02674v2 · Robert Feldmann, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, James S. Bullock et al.2024 · 39 citationsarXiv
Early Galaxies and Early Dark Energy: A Unified Solution to the Hubble Tension and Puzzles of Massive Bright Galaxies revealed by JWST2406.15548v2 · Xuejian Shen, Mark Vogelsberger, Michael Boylan-Kolchin et al.2024 · 49 citationsarXiv
Confronting the Diversity Problem: The Limits of Galaxy Rotation Curves as a tool to Understand Dark Matter Profiles2404.16247v1 · Isabel S. Sands, Philip F. Hopkins, Xuejian Shen et al.2024 · 11 citationsarXiv
Sliding into DM: Determining the local dark matter density and speed distribution using only the local circular speed of the Galaxy2403.04122v3 · Patrick G. Staudt, James S. Bullock, Michael Boylan-Kolchin et al.2024 · 10 citationsJCAP 08 (2024) 022
Primordial Rotating Disk Composed of $\geq$15 Dense Star-Forming Clumps at Cosmic Dawn2402.18543v3 · S. Fujimoto, M. Ouchi, K. Kohno et al.2024 · 20 citationsarXiv
An attractive model: simulating fuzzy dark matter with attractive self-interactions2402.16945v1 · Connor A. Painter, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Philip Mocz et al.2024 · 20 citationsarXiv
The JWST Resolved Stellar Populations Early Release Science Program V. DOLPHOT Stellar Photometry for NIRCam and NIRISS2402.03504v1 · Daniel R. Weisz, Andrew E. Dolphin, Alessandro Savino et al.2024 · 46 citationsarXiv
Stellar Metallicities and Gradients in the Isolated, Quenched Low-Mass Galaxy Tucana2312.05981v2 · Sal Wanying Fu, Daniel R. Weisz, Else Starkenburg et al.2023 · 7 citationsarXiv
The JWST Resolved Stellar Populations Early Release Science Program IV: The Star Formation History of the Local Group Galaxy WLM2312.03060v1 · Kristen. B. W. McQuinn, Max J. B. Newman, Alessandro Savino et al.2023 · 33 citationsarXiv
Evidence for a Shallow Evolution in the Volume Densities of Massive Galaxies at to from CEERS2311.14804v1 · Katherine Chworowsky, Steven L. Finkelstein, Michael Boylan-Kolchin et al.2023 · 4 citationsarXiv
Testing the near-far connection with FIRE simulations: inferring the stellar mass function of the proto-Local Group at z > 6 using the fossil record of present-day galaxies2309.09940v1 · Pratik J. Gandhi, Andrew Wetzel, Michael Boylan-Kolchin et al.2023 · 4 citationsarXiv
COSMOS-Web: Intrinsically Luminous z$\gtrsim$10 Galaxy Candidates Test Early Stellar Mass Assembly2308.10932v1 · Caitlin M. Casey, Hollis B. Akins, Marko Shuntov et al.2023 · 6 citationsarXiv
Hooks & Bends in the Radial Acceleration Relation: Discriminatory Tests for Dark Matter and MOND2307.09507v2 · Francisco J. Mercado, James S. Bullock, Jorge Moreno et al.2023 · 10 citationsarXiv
Metallicity Distribution Functions of 13 Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Candidates from Hubble Space Telescope Narrowband Imaging2306.06260v2 · Sal Wanying Fu, Daniel R. Weisz, Else Starkenburg et al.2023 · 35 citationsApJ 958 167 (2023)
The Absolute Age of M922306.02180v1 · Jiaqi (Martin) Ying, Brian Chaboyer, Emily M. Boudreaux et al.2023 · 43 citationsarXiv
The Hubble Space Telescope Survey of M31 Satellite Galaxies II. The Star Formation Histories of Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies2305.13360v2 · A. Savino, D. R. Weisz, E. D. Skillman et al.2023 · 36 citationsarXiv
The impact of UV variability on the abundance of bright galaxies at 2305.05679v2 · Xuejian Shen, Mark Vogelsberger, Michael Boylan-Kolchin et al.2023 · 4 citationsarXiv
An analytic surface density profile for CDM halos and gravitational lensing studies2304.11177v2 · Alexandres Lazar, James S. Bullock, Anna Nierenberg et al.2023 · 0 citationsarXiv
Cosmological Structure Formation and Soliton Phase Transition in Fuzzy Dark Matter with Axion Self-Interactions2301.10266v1 · Philip Mocz, Anastasia Fialkov, Mark Vogelsberger et al.2023 · 41 citationsarXiv
What Causes The Formation of Disks and End of Bursty Star Formation?2301.08263v3 · Philip F. Hopkins, Alexander B. Gurvich, Xuejian Shen et al.2023 · 99 citationsarXiv
The JWST Resolved Stellar Populations Early Release Science Program II. Survey Overview2301.04659v1 · Daniel R. Weisz, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Alessandro Savino et al.2023 · 49 citationsarXiv
HETDEX Public Source Catalog 1: 220K Sources Including Over 50K Lyman Alpha Emitters from an Untargeted Wide-area Spectroscopic Survey2301.01826v1 · Erin Mentuch Cooper, Karl Gebhardt, Dustin Davis et al.2023 · 50 citationsarXivon Valency
Stress testing ΛCDM with high-redshift galaxy candidates.37351007 · Boylan-Kolchin, Michael2023 · 328 citationsNature astronomy. 2023;7(6):731-735
A jolt to the system: ram pressure on low-mass galaxies in simulations of the Local Group2212.07518v2 · Jenna Samuel, Bhavya Pardasani, Andrew Wetzel et al.2022 · 22 citationsarXiv
Orientations of DM Halos in FIRE-2 Milky Way-mass Galaxies2211.16382v1 · Jay Baptista, Robyn Sanderson, Dan Huber et al.2022 · 0 citationsarXiv
Dwarf galaxy formation with and without dark matter-baryon streaming velocities2210.12815v1 · Anna T. P. Schauer, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Katelyn Colston et al.2022 · 13 citationsarXiv
Born this way: thin disc, thick disc, and isotropic spheroid formation in FIRE-2 Milky-Way-mass galaxy simulations2210.03845v2 · Sijie Yu, James S. Bullock, Alexander B. Gurvich et al.2022 · 57 citationsarXiv
On the Cosmic Web Elongation in Fuzzy Dark Matter Cosmologies: Effects on Density Profiles, Shapes and Alignments of Halos2208.03827v2 · Tibor Dome, Anastasia Fialkov, Philip Mocz et al.2022 · 23 citationsMNRAS, 519, 4183-4202 (2022)
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