Professor Mark Krumholz
PhD in physics, University of California, Berkeley, 2005
Professor
College of Science
Areas of expertise
- Cosmology And Extragalactic Astronomy 020103
- Galactic Astronomy 020104
- Stellar Astronomy And Planetary Systems 020110
- Numerical Solution Of Differential And Integral Equations 010302
- Applied Statistics 010401
Research interests
Interstellar medium, formation of stars and galaxies, numerical methods in radiation magneto-hydrodynamics, Bayesian statistics
Publications
- Popping, G, Narayanan, D, Somerville, R et al 2019, 'The art of modelling CO, [C I], and [C II] in cosmological galaxy formation models', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 482, no. 4, pp. 4906-4932.
- Birnboim, Y, Federrath, C & Krumholz, M 2018, 'Compression of turbulent magnetized gas in giant molecular clouds', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 473, no. 2, pp. 2144-2159pp.
- Cunningham, A, Krumholz, M, McKee, C et al 2018, 'The effects of magnetic fields and protostellar feedback on low-mass cluster formation', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 476, no. 1, pp. 771-792pp.
- Sabbi, E, Calzetti, D, Ubeda, L et al 2018, 'The Resolved Stellar Populations in the LEGUS Galaxies1', Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 235, no. 23, pp. 25pp.
- Kahre, L, Walterbos, R, Kim, H et al 2018, 'Extinction Maps and Dust-to-gas Ratios in Nearby Galaxies with LEGUS', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 855, no. 133, pp. 16pp.
- Krumholz, M & Ting, Y 2018, 'Metallicity fluctuation statistics in the interstellar medium and young stars - I. Variance and correlation', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 475, no. 2, pp. 2236-2252pp.
- Cormier, D, Bigiel, F, Jimenez-Donaire, M et al. 2018, 'Full-disc 13CO(1-0) mapping across nearby galaxies of the EMPIRE survey and the CO-to-H2 conversion factor', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 475, no. 3, pp. 3909-3933pp.
- Gallagher, M, Leroy, A, Bigiel, F et al. 2018, 'Dense Gas, Dynamical Equilibrium Pressure, and Star Formation in Nearby Star-forming Galaxies', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 858, no. 2, pp. 1-29.
- Padnos, D, Mandelker, N, Birnboim, Y et al 2018, 'Instability of supersonic cold streams feeding galaxies-II. Non-linear evolution of surface and body modes of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 477, no. 3, pp. 3293-3328.
- Crocker, R, Krumholz, M, Thompson, T et al 2018, 'The maximum flux of star-forming galaxies', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 478, no. 1, pp. 81-94pp.
- Onus, A, Krumholz, M & Federrath, C 2018, 'Numerical calibration of the HCN-star formation correlation', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 479, no. 2, pp. 1702-1710pp.
- Krumholz, M, Burkhart, B, Forbes, J et al 2018, 'A unified model for galactic discs: Star formation, turbulence driving, and mass transport', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 477, no. 2, pp. 2716-2740pp.
- Grasha, K, Calzetti, D, Bittle, L et al 2018, 'Connecting young star clusters to CO molecular gas in NGC 7793 with ALMA-LEGUS', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 481, no. 1, pp. 1016-1027pp.
- Guszejnov, D, Hopkins, P, Grudic, M et al 2018, 'Isothermal Fragmentation: Is there a low-mass cut-off?', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 480, no. 1, pp. 182-191pp.
- Wibking, B, Thompson, T & Krumholz, M 2018, 'Radiation pressure in galactic discs: stability, turbulence, and winds in the single-scattering limit', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 477, no. 4, pp. 4665-4684.
- Jeffreson, S, Kruijssen, J, Krumholz, M et al. 2018, 'On the physical mechanisms governing the cloud lifecycle in the Central Molecular Zone of the Milky Way', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 478, no. 3, pp. 3380-3385pp.
- Gallagher, M, Leroy, A, Bigiel, F et al. 2018, 'Do Spectroscopic Dense Gas Fractions Track Molecular Cloud Surface Densities?', Astrophysical Journal Letters, vol. 868, no. 2, pp. 1-9pp.
- Li, Q, Narayanan, D, Dave, R et al 2018, 'Dark Molecular Gas in Simulations of z - 0 Disk Galaxies', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 869, no. 73, pp. 1-14pp.
- Michałowski, M, Karska, A, Rizzo, J et al 2018, 'Molecular gas masses of gamma-ray burst host galaxies', Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 617, no. A143, pp. 1-10.
- Crocker, R, Krumholz, M, Thompson, T et al 2018, 'Radiation pressure limits on the star formation efficiency and surface density of compact stellar systems', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 481, no. 4, pp. 4895-4906pp.
- Armillotta, L, Krumholz, M & Fujimoto, Y 2018, 'Mixing of metals during star cluster formation: Statistics and implications for chemical tagging', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 481, no. 4, pp. 5000-5013.
- Krumholz, M, Thompson, T, Ostriker, E et al 2017, 'The observable properties of cool winds from galaxies, AGN, and star clusters - I. Theoretical framework', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 471, no. 4, pp. 4061-4086pp.
- Jimenez-Donaire, M, Cormier, D, Bigiel, F et al. 2017, '13CO/C18O Gradients across the Disks of Nearby Spiral Galaxies', Astrophysical Journal Letters, vol. 836, no. 2, pp. 1-6pp.
- Safranek-Shrader, C, Krumholz, M, Kim, C et al 2017, 'Chemistry and radiative shielding in star-forming galactic discs', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 465, no. 1, pp. 885-905pp.
- Krumholz, M, Kruijssen, J & Crocker, R 2017, 'A dynamical model for gas flows, star formation and nuclear winds in galactic centres', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 466, no. 1, pp. 1213-1233pp.
- Jimenez-Donaire, M, Bigiel, F, Leroy, A et al. 2017, 'Optical depth estimates and effective critical densities of dense gas tracers in the inner parts of nearby galaxy discs', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 466, no. 1, pp. 49-62.
- Adamo, A, Ryon, J, Messa, M et al 2017, 'Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey with The Hubble Space Telescope: Stellar Cluster Catalogs and First Insights Into Cluster Formation and Evolution in NGC 628', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 841, no. 2, pp. 26pp.
- Federrath, C, Krumholz, M & Hopkins, P 2017, 'Converging on the Initial Mass Function of Stars', 11th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, ASTRONUM 2016, ed. Nikolai V. Pogorelov, Edouard Audit, Gary P. Zank, IOP Publishing, Online, pp. 012007 (12pp).
- Rosen, A, Krumholz, M, Oishi, J et al 2017, 'Hybrid Adaptive Ray-Moment Method (HARM2): A highly parallel method for radiation hydrodynamics on adaptive grids', Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 330, pp. 924-942.
- Grasha, K, Elmegreen, B, Calzetti, D et al 2017, 'Hierarchical Star Formation in Turbulent Media: Evidence from Young Star Clusters', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 842, no. 1, pp. 13pp.
- Guszejnov, D, Hopkins, P & Krumholz, M 2017, 'Protostellar feedback in turbulent fragmentation: consequences for stellar clustering and multiplicity', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 468, no. 4, pp. 4093-4106pp..
- Ashworth, G, Fumagalli, M, Krumholz, M et al 2017, 'Exploring the IMF of star clusters: a joint SLUG and LEGUS effort', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 469, no. 2, pp. 2464-2480pp..
- Gentry, E, Krumholz, M, Dekel, A et al 2017, 'Enhanced momentum feedback from clustered supernovae', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 465, no. 2, pp. 2471-2488pp..
- Narayanan, D & Krumholz, M 2017, 'A physical model for the [C II]–FIR deficit in luminous galaxies', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 467, no. 1, pp. 50-67pp..
- Issaoun, S, Goddi, C, Matthews, L et al 2017, 'VLBA imaging of the 3 mm SiO maser emission in the disk-wind from the massive protostellar system Orion Source I', Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 606, pp. A126 (11pp).
- Mandelker, N, Padnos, D, Dekel, A et al 2016, 'Instability of supersonic cold streams feeding galaxies - I. Linear Kelvin-Helmholtz instability with body modes', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 463, no. 4, pp. 3921-3947pp..
- Guo, Y, Rafelski, M, Faber, S et al 2016, 'The bursty star formation histories of law-mass galaxies at 0.4 < z < 1 revealed by star formation rates measured from Hβ and FUV', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 833, no. 1, pp. 13pp.
- Forbes, J, Krumholz, M, Goldbaum, N et al 2016, 'Suppression of star formation in dwarf galaxies by photoelectric grain heating feedback', Nature, vol. 535, no. 7613, pp. 523-525.
- Krumholz, M, Myers, A, Klein, R et al 2016, 'What physics determines the peak of the IMF? Insights from the structure of cores in radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 460, no. 3, pp. 3272-3283.
- Goldbaum, N, Krumholz, M & Forbes, J 2016, 'MASS TRANSPORT and TURBULENCE in GRAVITATIONALLY UNSTABLE DISK GALAXIES. II. the EFFECTS of STAR FORMATION FEEDBACK', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 827, no. 1, pp. 15pp.
- Krumholz, M & Burkhart, B 2016, 'Is turbulence in the interstellar medium driven by feedback or gravity? An observational test', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 458, no. 2, pp. 1671-1677.
- Thompson, T & Krumholz, M 2016, 'Sub-Eddington star-forming regions are super-Eddington: Momentum-driven outflows from supersonic turbulence', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 455, no. 1, pp. 334-342.
- Guszejnov, D, Krumholz, M & Hopkins, P 2016, 'The necessity of feedback physics in setting the peak of the initial mass function', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 458, no. 1, pp. 673-680.
- Rosen, A, Krumholz, M, McKee, C et al 2016, 'An unstable truth: How massive stars get their mass', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 463, no. 3, pp. 2553-2573.
- Michalowski, M, Gentile, G, Hjorth, J et al 2015, 'Inflow of atomic gas fuelling star formation', International Astronomical Union. Proceedings, vol. 11, no. A29B, pp. 229-230.
- Krumholz, M, Kruijssen, J & Crocker, R 2015, 'A dynamical model for the formation of gas rings and episodic starbursts near galactic centres', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 453, no. 1, pp. 739-757.
- Petit, A, Krumholz, M, Goldbaum, N et al 2015, 'Mixing and transport of metals by gravitational instability-driven turbulence in galactic discs', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 449, no. 3, pp. 2588-2597.
- Krumholz, M, Fumagalli, M, da Silva, R et al 2015, 'SLUG - stochastically lighting up galaxies - III. A suite of tools for simulated photometry, spectroscopy, and Bayesian inference with stochastic stellar populations', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 452, no. 2, pp. 1447-1467.
- Calzetti, D, Lee, J, Sabbi, E et al 2015, 'Legacy extragalactic UV survey (LEGUS) with the hubble space telescope. I. Survey description', Astronomical Journal, vol. 149, no. 2, pp. -.
- Kriek, M, Shapley, A, Reddy, N et al 2015, 'THE MOSFIRE DEEP EVOLUTION FIELD (MOSDEF) SURVEY: REST-FRAME OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY FOR similar to 1500 H-SELECTED GALAXIES AT 1.37 , Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 218, no. 2, pp. -.
- Michałowski, M, Gentile, G, Hjorth, J et al 2015, 'Massive stars formed in atomic hydrogen reservoirs: H i observations of gamma-ray burst host galaxies', Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 582, pp. -.
- Goldbaum, N, Krumholz, M & Forbes, J 2015, 'MASS TRANSPORT and TURBULENCE in GRAVITATIONALLY UNSTABLE DISK GALAXIES. I. the CASE of PURE SELF-GRAVITY', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 814, no. 2, pp. -.
- Krumholz, M & Forbes, J 2015, 'VADER: A flexible, robust, open-source code for simulating viscous thin accretion disks', Astronomy and Computing, vol. 11, no. PA, pp. 1-17.
- Tripathi, A, Kratter, K, Murray-Clay, R et al 2015, 'SIMULATED PHOTOEVAPORATIVE MASS LOSS from HOT JUPITERS in 3D', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 808, no. 2, pp. -.
- Krumholz, M, Adamo, A, Fumagalli, M et al 2015, 'STAR CLUSTER PROPERTIES in TWO LEGUS GALAXIES COMPUTED with STOCHASTIC STELLAR POPULATION SYNTHESIS MODELS', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 812, no. 2, pp. -.
- Calzetti, D, Johnson, K, Adamo, A et al 2015, 'THE BRIGHTEST YOUNG STAR CLUSTERS in NGC 5253', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 811, no. 2, pp. -.
- Krumholz, M 2014, 'Despotic - a new software library to derive the energetics and spectra of optically thick interstellar clouds', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 437, no. 2, pp. 1662-1680.
- da Silva, R, Fumagalli, M & Krumholz, M 2014, 'SLUG - stochastically lighting up galaxies - II. Quantifying the effects of stochasticity on star formation rate indicators', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 444, no. 4, pp. 3275-3287.
- Feng, Y & Krumholz, M 2014, 'Early turbulent mixing as the origin of chemical homogeneity in open star clusters', Nature, vol. 513, no. 7519, pp. 523-525.
- Andrews, J, Calzetti, D, Chandar, R et al 2014, 'Big fish in small ponds: Massive stars in the low-mass clusters of M83', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 793, no. 1, pp. -.
- Forbes, J, Krumholz, M, Burkert, A et al 2014, 'Balance among gravitational instability, star formation and accretion determines the structure and evolution of disc galaxies', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 438, no. 2, pp. 1552-1576.
- Forbes, J, Krumholz, M, Burkert, A et al 2014, 'On the origin of the fundamental metallicity relation and the scatter in galaxy scaling relations', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 443, no. 1, pp. 168-185.
- Kim, J, Abel, T, Agertz, O et al 2014, 'The AGORA high-resolution galaxy simulations comparison project', Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 210, no. 1, pp. -.
- Rosen, A, Lopez, L, Krumholz, M et al 2014, 'Gone with the wind: Where is the missing stellar wind energy from massive star clusters?', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 442, no. 3, pp. 2701-2716.
- da Silva, R, Krumholz, M, Fumagalli, M et al 2014, 'An analytic method to compute star cluster luminosity statistics', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 438, no. 3, pp. 2355-2370.
- Lopez, L, Krumholz, M, Bolatto, A et al 2014, 'THE ROLE OF STELLAR FEEDBACK IN THE DYNAMICS OF H II REGIONS', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 795, no. 2, pp. -.
- Krumholz, M 2014, 'The big problems in star formation: The star formation rate, stellar clustering, and the initial mass function', Physics Reports: Review Section of Physics Letters, vol. 539, no. 2, pp. 49-134.
- Narayanan, D & Krumholz, M 2014, 'A theory for the excitation of CO in star-forming galaxies', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 442, no. 2, pp. 1411-1428.
- Myers, A, Klein, R, Krumholz, M et al 2014, 'Star cluster formation in turbulent, magnetized dense clumps with radiative and outflow feedback', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 439, no. 4, pp. 3420-3438.
- Dekel, A & Krumholz, M 2013, 'Steady outflows in giant clumps of high-z disc galaxies during migration and growth by accretion', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 432, no. 1, pp. 455-467.
- Krumholz, M & Thompson, T 2013, 'Numerical simulations of radiatively driven dusty winds', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 434, no. 3, pp. 2329-2346.
- Krumholz, M, Crutcher, R & Hull, C 2013, 'Protostellar disk formation enabled by weak, misaligned magnetic fields', Astrophysical Journal Letters, vol. 767, no. 1, pp. -.
- Verdolini, S, Yeh, S, Krumholz, M et al 2013, 'Line emission from radiation-pressurized HII regions. II. dynamics and population synthesis', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 769, no. 1, pp. -.
- Krumholz, M 2013, 'The star formation law in molecule-poor galaxies', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 436, no. 3, pp. 2747-2762.
- Kim, J, Krumholz, M, Wise, J et al 2013, 'Dwarf galaxies with ionizing radiation feedback. II. Spatially resolved star formation relation', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 779, no. 1, pp. -.
- Yeh, S, Verdolini, S, Krumholz, M et al 2013, 'LINE EMISSION FROM RADIATION-PRESSURIZED HII REGIONS. I. INTERNAL STRUCTURE AND LINE RATIOS', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 769, no. 1, pp. -.
- Kuhlen, M, Madau, P & Krumholz, M 2013, 'DWARF GALAXY FORMATION WITH H-2-REGULATED STAR FORMATION. II. GAS-RICH DARK GALAXIES AT REDSHIFT 2.5', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 776, no. 1, pp. -.
- Myers, A, McKee, C, Cunningham, A et al 2013, 'The fragmentation of magnetized, massive star-forming cores with radiative feedback', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 766, no. 2, pp. -.
- Kim, J, Krumholz, M, Wise, J et al 2013, 'Dwarf galaxies with ionizing radiation feedback. I. Escape of ionizing photons', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 775, no. 2.
- Craig, J & Krumholz, M 2013, 'Close stellar encounters in young, substructured, dissolving star clusters: Statistics and effects on planetary systems', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 769, no. 2, pp. -.
- Andrews, J, Calzetti, D, Chandar, R et al 2013, 'An Initial Mass Function Study of the Dwarf Starburst Galaxy NGC 4214', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 767, no. 1, pp. 10pp.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- The Cosmic Distribution of Metals (Primary Investigator)
- The Life Cycle of Star-Forming Regions in the Era of Next Generation Telescopes (Primary Investigator)
- Modeling the Distribution of Metals in the Universe (Primary Investigator)
