Lars Hernquist

102.8k total citations · 42 hit papers
649 papers, 69.9k citations indexed

About

Lars Hernquist is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lars Hernquist has authored 649 papers receiving a total of 69.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 616 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 256 papers in Instrumentation and 111 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Lars Hernquist's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (514 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (256 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (188 papers). Lars Hernquist is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (514 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (256 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (188 papers). Lars Hernquist collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Lars Hernquist's co-authors include Volker Springel, Mark Vogelsberger, Dylan Nelson, Paul Torrey, Shy Genel, Tiziana Di Matteo, Philip F. Hopkins, Annalisa Pillepich, Federico Marinacci and Thomas J. Cox and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Lars Hernquist

627 papers receiving 66.6k citations

Hit Papers

Energy input from quasars regulates the growth an... 1989 2026 2001 2013 2005 1990 2014 2003 2005 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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  1. Energy input from quasars regulates the growth and activity of black holes and their host galaxies
    2005 2.0k citations Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist et al. profile →
  2. An analytical model for spherical galaxies and bulges
    1990 2.0k citations Lars Hernquist The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  3. Introducing the Illustris Project: simulating the coevolution of dark and visible matter in the Universe
    2014 1.6k citations Mark Vogelsberger, Shy Genel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  4. Cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations: a hybrid multiphase model for star formation
    2003 1.6k citations Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  5. Modelling feedback from stars and black holes in galaxy mergers
    2005 1.5k citations Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  6. Simulating galaxy formation with the IllustrisTNG model
    2017 1.4k citations Annalisa Pillepich, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  7. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: matter and galaxy clustering
    2017 1.2k citations Volker Springel, Rüdiger Pakmor et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  8. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the stellar mass content of groups and clusters of galaxies
    2017 1.2k citations Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  9. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the galaxy colour bimodality
    2017 1.1k citations Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  10. Gasdynamics and Starbursts in Major Mergers
    1996 1.0k citations Lars Hernquist et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  11. The IllustrisTNG simulations: public data release
    2019 953 citations Dylan Nelson, Volker Springel et al. profile →
  12. Properties of galaxies reproduced by a hydrodynamic simulation
    2014 917 citations Mark Vogelsberger, Shy Genel et al. profile →
  13. A Cosmological Framework for the Co‐evolution of Quasars, Supermassive Black Holes, and Elliptical Galaxies. I. Galaxy Mergers and Quasar Activity
    2008 906 citations Lars Hernquist et al. profile →
  14. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: a tale of two elements – chemical evolution of magnesium and europium
    2018 894 citations Jill Naiman, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  15. Simulating galaxy formation with black hole driven thermal and kinetic feedback
    2016 879 citations Rainer Weinberger, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  16. Transformations of Galaxies. II. Gasdynamics in Merging Disk Galaxies
    1996 816 citations Lars Hernquist et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  17. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: radio haloes and magnetic fields
    2018 794 citations Federico Marinacci, Mark Vogelsberger et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  18. Introducing the Illustris project: the evolution of galaxy populations across cosmic time
    2014 765 citations Shy Genel, Mark Vogelsberger et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  19. A model for cosmological simulations of galaxy formation physics
    2013 737 citations Mark Vogelsberger, Shy Genel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  20. A semi-analytic model for the co-evolution of galaxies, black holes and active galactic nuclei
    2008 719 citations Rachel S. Somerville, Lars Hernquist et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  21. Cosmological Simulations with TreeSPH
    1996 701 citations Neal Katz, David H. Weinberg et al. profile →
  22. First results from the TNG50 simulation: galactic outflows driven by supernovae and black hole feedback
    2019 695 citations Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  23. An Observational Determination of the Bolometric Quasar Luminosity Function
    2007 669 citations Lars Hernquist et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  24. TREESPH - A unification of SPH with the hierarchical tree method
    1989 658 citations Lars Hernquist, Neal Katz profile →
  25. A unified model for AGN feedback in cosmological simulations of structure formation
    2007 611 citations Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  26. First results from the TNG50 simulation: the evolution of stellar and gaseous discs across cosmic time
    2019 608 citations Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  27. Cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations: the entropy equation
    2002 595 citations Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  28. Fueling starburst galaxies with gas-rich mergers
    1991 587 citations Lars Hernquist et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  29. Dynamics of Interacting Galaxies
    1992 540 citations Lars Hernquist et al. profile →
  30. A NEW CALCULATION OF THE IONIZING BACKGROUND SPECTRUM AND THE EFFECTS OF He II REIONIZATION
    2009 536 citations Lars Hernquist et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  31. The merger rate of galaxies in the Illustris simulation: a comparison with observations and semi-empirical models
    2015 519 citations Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Shy Genel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  32. Black Holes in Galaxy Mergers: The Formation of Red Elliptical Galaxies
    2005 478 citations Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  33. The Illustris simulation: the evolving population of black holes across cosmic time
    2015 459 citations Mark Vogelsberger, Shy Genel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  34. The Growth of HiiRegions During Reionization
    2004 442 citations Lars Hernquist et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  35. The illustris simulation: Public data release
    2015 372 citations Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich et al. profile →
  36. Direct Cosmological Simulations of the Growth of Black Holes and Galaxies
    2008 361 citations Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  37. Supermassive black holes and their feedback effects in the IllustrisTNG simulation
    2018 316 citations Rainer Weinberger, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  38. The optical morphologies of galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulation: a comparison to Pan-STARRS observations
    2018 296 citations Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Gregory F. Snyder et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  39. Galaxy formation with BECDM – I. Turbulence and relaxation of idealized haloes
    2017 227 citations Philip Mocz, Mark Vogelsberger et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  40. The star formation activity of IllustrisTNG galaxies: main sequence, UVJ diagram, quenched fractions, and systematics
    2019 215 citations Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  41. Introducing the thesan project: radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the epoch of reionization
    2021 160 citations Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  42. The MillenniumTNG Project: the hydrodynamical full physics simulation and a first look at its galaxy clusters
    2023 96 citations Rüdiger Pakmor, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lars Hernquist United States 123 67.1k 27.8k 12.6k 2.7k 2.6k 649 69.9k
Volker Springel Germany 125 63.8k 1.0× 27.4k 1.0× 14.3k 1.1× 2.9k 1.1× 2.7k 1.0× 502 66.8k
Simon D. M. White Germany 99 49.9k 0.7× 23.7k 0.9× 10.7k 0.9× 3.3k 1.2× 1.9k 0.7× 358 52.0k
Carlos S. Frenk United Kingdom 102 48.8k 0.7× 22.7k 0.8× 12.9k 1.0× 3.6k 1.3× 1.7k 0.6× 491 51.2k
Mark Vogelsberger United States 81 30.7k 0.5× 13.4k 0.5× 7.8k 0.6× 1.3k 0.5× 1.5k 0.6× 351 32.5k
Donald P. Schneider United States 86 27.8k 0.4× 9.5k 0.3× 6.0k 0.5× 713 0.3× 806 0.3× 456 28.5k
Paul Torrey United States 65 22.6k 0.3× 11.2k 0.4× 3.5k 0.3× 749 0.3× 1.3k 0.5× 170 23.6k
Philip F. Hopkins United States 92 25.3k 0.4× 9.6k 0.3× 4.5k 0.4× 944 0.3× 721 0.3× 374 27.0k
Dylan Nelson Germany 61 21.8k 0.3× 10.9k 0.4× 3.6k 0.3× 738 0.3× 1.3k 0.5× 201 22.8k
Joop Schaye Netherlands 85 24.7k 0.4× 10.5k 0.4× 6.3k 0.5× 850 0.3× 855 0.3× 419 25.5k
James E. Gunn United States 69 20.3k 0.3× 8.3k 0.3× 4.5k 0.4× 849 0.3× 753 0.3× 257 22.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lars Hernquist

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All Works

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Sullivan, James M., Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, Mikhail M. Ivanov, et al.. (2025). High-redshift millennium and astrid galaxies in effective field theory at the field level. Physical review. D. 112(8). 3 indexed citations
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Semenov, Vadim A., Charlie Conroy, Vedant Chandra, Lars Hernquist, & Dylan Nelson. (2024). Formation of Galactic Disks. I. Why Did the Milky Way’s Disk Form Unusually Early?. The Astrophysical Journal. 962(1). 84–84. 25 indexed citations
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Semenov, Vadim A., Charlie Conroy, Vedant Chandra, Lars Hernquist, & Dylan Nelson. (2024). Formation of Galactic Disks. II. The Physical Drivers of Disk Spin-up. The Astrophysical Journal. 972(1). 73–73. 5 indexed citations
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Jamieson, Drew, Eiichiro Komatsu, Sownak Bose, et al.. (2024). Statistics of thermal gas pressure as a probe of cosmology and galaxy formation. Physical review. D. 109(6). 3 indexed citations
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Contreras, Sergio, Raúl E. Angulo, Volker Springel, et al.. (2023). The MillenniumTNG Project: inferring cosmology from galaxy clustering with accelerated N-body scaling and subhalo abundance matching. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(2). 2489–2506. 25 indexed citations
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Bose, Sownak, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Monica Barrera, et al.. (2023). The MillenniumTNG Project: the large-scale clustering of galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(2). 2579–2593. 20 indexed citations
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Smith, Matthew C, Drummond B. Fielding, Greg L. Bryan, et al.. (2023). Arkenstone – I. A novel method for robustly capturing high specific energy outflows in cosmological simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(1). 1216–1243. 24 indexed citations
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Mocz, Philip, Anastasia Fialkov, Mark Vogelsberger, et al.. (2023). Cosmological structure formation and soliton phase transition in fuzzy dark matter with axion self-interactions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521(2). 2608–2615. 26 indexed citations
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Tacchella, Sandro, Aaron Smith, Rahul Kannan, et al.. (2022). Hαemission in local galaxies: star formation, time variability, and the diffuse ionized gas. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 513(2). 2904–2929. 47 indexed citations
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Kannan, Rahul, Mark Vogelsberger, Federico Marinacci, et al.. (2021). Dust entrainment in galactic winds. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 503(1). 336–343. 24 indexed citations
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Smith, Matthew C, Greg L. Bryan, Rachel S. Somerville, et al.. (2021). Efficient early stellar feedback can suppress galactic outflows by reducing supernova clustering. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 506(3). 3882–3915. 74 indexed citations
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Xu, D., Yunchong Wang, Shude Mao, et al.. (2021). Quenched, bulge-dominated, but dynamically cold galaxies in IllustrisTNG and their real-world counterparts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 509(4). 5062–5074. 4 indexed citations
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Pulsoni, C., Ortwin Gerhard, M. Arnaboldi, et al.. (2020). The stellar halos of ETGs in the IllustrisTNG simulations: The photometric and kinematic diversity of galaxies at large radii. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 46 indexed citations
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Li, Yuan, Mélanie Habouzit, Shy Genel, et al.. (2020). Correlations between Black Holes and Host Galaxies in the Illustris and IllustrisTNG Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal. 895(2). 102–102. 26 indexed citations
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Xu, D., Ling Zhu, Robert J. J. Grand, et al.. (2019). A study of stellar orbit fractions: simulated IllustrisTNG galaxies compared to CALIFA observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 489(1). 842–854. 25 indexed citations
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Rodríguez-Gómez, Vicente, Gregory F. Snyder, Jennifer M. Lotz, et al.. (2018). The optical morphologies of galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulation: a comparison to Pan-STARRS observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 483(3). 4140–4159. 296 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cook, B. A., Charlie Conroy, Annalisa Pillepich, Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, & Lars Hernquist. (2016). THE INFORMATION CONTENT OF STELLAR HALOS: STELLAR POPULATION GRADIENTS AND ACCRETION HISTORIES IN EARLY-TYPE ILLUSTRIS GALAXIES. The Astrophysical Journal. 833(2). 158–158. 41 indexed citations
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D’Onghia, Elena, Piero Madau, Carlos Vera-Ciro, Alice C. Quillen, & Lars Hernquist. (2016). EXCITATION OF COUPLED STELLAR MOTIONS IN THE GALACTIC DISK BY ORBITING SATELLITES. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 57 indexed citations
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Michałowski, M. J., Christopher C. Hayward, J. S. Dunlop, et al.. (2014). Determining the stellar masses of submillimetre galaxies: the critical importance of star formation histories. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 45 indexed citations
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Rauch, Michael, Jordi Miralda‐Escudé, W. L. W. Sargent, et al.. (1997). The Opacity of the Lyα Forest and Implications for Ωband the Ionizing Background. The Astrophysical Journal. 489(1). 7–20. 256 indexed citations

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