Sadegh Khochfar

Professor S Khochfar

Sadegh is a member of the following School research institute:

Lecturer on the smoothed particle hydrodynamics module of the Computational Astrophysics course
Laboratory coordinator on the Observational Astronomy course

In this video Sadegh describes how he simulates the birth of the first galaxies at the cosmic dawn.

Conditions for Super-Eddington Accretion onto the First Black Holes DOI
Simone T. Gordon, Britton D. Smith, Sadegh Khochfar and Ricarda S. Beckmann, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 537, 2, p. 674-690 (2025)
Why does the Milky Way have a metallicity floor? DOI
Britton D. Smith, Brian W. O'Shea, Sadegh Khochfar, Matthew J. Turk, John H. Wise and Michael L. Norman, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532, 4, p. 3797-3807 (2024)
Hungry or not: how stellar-mass black holes grow (or don't) in dark matter mini-haloes at high resolution DOI
Simone T Gordon, Britton D Smith, Sadegh Khochfar and John Anthony Regan, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume, 529, 1, p. 604-627 (2024)
The Role of Radiation and Halo Mergers in Pop III Star Formation DOI
Lilia Correa Magnus, Britton D. Smith, Sadegh Khochfar, Brian W. O'Shea, John H. Wise, Michael L. Norman and Matthew J. Turk, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527, 1, p. 307-320 (2024)
Multi-epoch machine learning 2: Identifying physical drivers of galaxy properties in simulations DOI
Robert J. McGibbon and Sadegh Khochfar, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 523, 4, p. 5583-5597 (2023)