Kirk S Barrow

Assistant Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Astronomy
Assistant Professor, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies

Recent Publications

Barrow, K. S. S., Nguyễn, T. H., & Skrabacz, E. (2026). Solving Milky Way–sized Systems with Haskap Pie: A Halo Finding Algorithm with Efficient Sampling, K-means Clustering, Tree-assembly, Particle Tracking, Python Modules, Intercode Applicability, and Energy Solving. Astrophysical Journal, 999(1), Article 72. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae2eb4

Nguyễn, T. H., Barrow, K. S. S., Byrom, S., & Satish, V. (2026). Effect of molecular hydrogen self-shielding modelling on early Reionization Era galaxies in radiative hydrodynamic cosmological simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 545(3), Article staf2045. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf2045

Simeon, P., Globus, N., Barrow, K. S. S., & Blandford, R. (2026). A Hierarchical Shock Model of Ultra-high-energy Cosmic Rays. Astrophysical Journal, 998(1), Article 164. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae2852

AGORA COLLABORATION (2026). The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. X. Formation and Evolution of Galaxies at the High-redshift Frontier. Astrophysical Journal, 1000(2), Article 276. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae4a23

Adamo, A., Atek, H., Bagley, M. B., Bañados, E., Barrow, K. S. S., Berg, D. A., Bezanson, R., Bradač, M., Brammer, G., Carnall, A. C., Chisholm, J., Coe, D., Dayal, P., Eisenstein, D. J., Eldridge, J. J., Ferrara, A., Fujimoto, S., Graaff, A. D., Habouzit, M., ... Nota, A. (2025). The first billion years according to JWST. Nature Astronomy, 9(8), 1134-1147. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-025-02624-5

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