Xiangcheng Ma

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Xiangcheng Ma is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiangcheng Ma has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 14 papers in Instrumentation and 4 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Xiangcheng Ma's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (36 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (23 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (22 papers). Xiangcheng Ma is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (36 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (23 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (22 papers). Xiangcheng Ma collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Canada. Xiangcheng Ma's co-authors include Philip F. Hopkins, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, Dušan Kereš, Eliot Quataert, Andrew Wetzel, Christopher C. Hayward, Robert Feldmann, Norman Murray, Alexander L. Muratov and Daniel Anglés‐Alcázar and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Cineca Institutional Research Information System (Tor Vergata University).

In The Last Decade

Xiangcheng Ma

39 papers receiving 2.5k citations

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The origin and evolution of the galaxy mass–metallicity relation

2015 292 citations Xiangcheng Ma, Philip F. Hopkins et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Formation of proto-globular cluster candidates in cosmological simulations of dwarf galaxies at z > 4 2023 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Omid Sameie, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Philip F. Hopkins, Andrew Wetzel, Xiangcheng Ma, James S. Bullock, Kareem El-Badry, Eliot Quataert, Jenna Samuel, Anna T. P. Schauer, Daniel R. Weisz	13
2	The contribution of globular clusters to cosmic reionization 2021 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Xiangcheng Ma, Eliot Quataert, Andrew Wetzel, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, Michael Boylan-Kolchin	10
3	3D gas-phase elemental abundances across the formation histories of Milky Way-mass galaxies in the FIRE simulations: initial conditions for chemical tagging 2021 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), Andrew Wetzel, Sarah Loebman, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, Xiangcheng Ma, Robert Feldmann	38
4	Virialization of the Inner CGM in the FIRE Simulations and Implications for Galaxy Disks, Star Formation, and Feedback 2021 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Jonathan Stern, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, Drummond B. Fielding, Eliot Quataert, Zachary Hafen, Alexander B. Gurvich, Xiangcheng Ma, (unknown), Kareem El-Badry, Daniel Anglés‐Alcázar, T K Chan, Robert Feldmann, Dušan Kereš, Andrew Wetzel, Norman Murray, Philip F. Hopkins	93
5	A model for the formation of stellar associations and clusters from giant molecular clouds 2021 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Michael Y Grudić, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, Philip F. Hopkins, Xiangcheng Ma, Eliot Quataert, Michael Boylan-Kolchin	59
6	The bursty origin of the Milky Way thick disc 2021 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), James S. Bullock, Courtney Klein, Jonathan Stern, Andrew Wetzel, Xiangcheng Ma, Jorge Moreno, Zachary Hafen, Alexander B. Gurvich, Philip F. Hopkins, Dušan Kereš, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, Robert Feldmann, Eliot Quataert	49
7	Self-consistent proto-globular cluster formation in cosmological simulations of high-redshift galaxies 2020 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Xiangcheng Ma, Michael Y Grudić, Eliot Quataert, Philip F. Hopkins, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Andrew Wetzel, Ji-hoon Kim, Norman Murray, Dušan Kereš	74
8	Towards studying hierarchical assembly in real time: a Milky Way progenitor galaxy at z = 2.36 under the microscope 2020 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Tom Zick, Daniel R. Weisz, B. Ribeiro, Mariska Kriek, Benjamin D. Johnson, Xiangcheng Ma, R. J. Bouwens	6
9	The failure of stellar feedback, magnetic fields, conduction, and morphological quenching in maintaining red galaxies 2019 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Kung-Yi Su, Philip F. Hopkins, Christopher C. Hayward, Xiangcheng Ma, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, (unknown), M. Orr, T K Chan, Victor H. Robles	45
10	Cosmic rays or turbulence can suppress cooling flows (where thermal heating or momentum injection fail) 2019 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Kung-Yi Su, Philip F. Hopkins, Christopher C. Hayward, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, Dušan Kereš, Xiangcheng Ma, M. Orr, T K Chan, Victor H. Robles	42
11	Discrete Effects in Stellar Feedback: Individual Supernovae, Hypernovae, and IMF Sampling in Dwarf Galaxies 2018 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Kung-Yi Su, Philip F. Hopkins, Christopher C. Hayward, Xiangcheng Ma, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Daniel Kasen, Dušan Kereš, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, M. Orr, Coral Wheeler	35
12	Feedback first: the surprisingly weak effects of magnetic fields, viscosity, conduction and metal diffusion on sub-L* galaxy formation 2017 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Kung-Yi Su, Philip F. Hopkins, Christopher C. Hayward, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, Dušan Kereš, Xiangcheng Ma, Victor H. Robles	129
13	Metal flows of the circumgalactic medium, and the metal budget in galactic haloes 2017 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Alexander L. Muratov, Dušan Kereš, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, Philip F. Hopkins, Xiangcheng Ma, Daniel Anglés‐Alcázar, T K Chan, Paul Torrey, Zachary Hafen, Eliot Quataert, Norman Murray	127
14	Formation of globular cluster candidates in merging proto-galaxies at high redshift: a view from the FIRE cosmological simulations 2017 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Ji-hoon Kim, Xiangcheng Ma, Michael Y Grudić, Philip F. Hopkins, Christopher C. Hayward, Andrew Wetzel, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, Dušan Kereš, Shea Garrison-Kimmel, Norman Murray	71
15	The structure and dynamical evolution of the stellar disc of a simulated Milky Way-mass galaxy 2017 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Xiangcheng Ma, Philip F. Hopkins, Andrew Wetzel, Evan N. Kirby, Daniel Anglés‐Alcázar, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, Dušan Kereš, Eliot Quataert	121
16	Comparing models for IMF variation across cosmological time in Milky Way-like galaxies 2017 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Dávid Guszejnov, Philip F. Hopkins, Xiangcheng Ma	18
17	Modelling chemical abundance distributions for dwarf galaxies in the Local Group: the impact of turbulent metal diffusion 2017 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Ivanna Escala, Andrew Wetzel, Evan N. Kirby, Philip F. Hopkins, Xiangcheng Ma, Coral Wheeler, Dušan Kereš, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, Eliot Quataert	117
18	Binary stars can provide the ‘missing photons’ needed for reionization 2016 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Xiangcheng Ma, Philip F. Hopkins, Daniel Kasen, Eliot Quataert, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, Dušan Kereš, Norman Murray, Allison L. Strom	110
19	The origin and evolution of the galaxy mass–metallicity relation breakdown → 2015 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Xiangcheng Ma, Philip F. Hopkins, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, (unknown), Alexander L. Muratov, Dušan Kereš, Eliot Quataert	292
20	New Results from DAMA/LIBRA: Final Model-Independent Results of Dama/Libra-Phase1 and Perspectives of Phase2 2014 ·Cineca Institutional Research Information System (Tor Vergata University) ·R. Bernabei, A. D’Angelo, X. D. Sheng, Xiangcheng Ma, R. Cerulli, (unknown), Alessandro Di Marco, F. Montecchia, C. J. Dai, (unknown), S. d’Angelo, P. Belli, H.L. He, (unknown), V. Caracciolo, A. Incicchitti	3

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