John C. Forbes
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First-Author

15. Semi-analytic Orbits: A Practical Implementation of Lynden-Bell's Planar Orbits and Extension to Vertical Oscillations
Forbes, J.C., Bannister, M.T., Forrest, A., DSouza, I. Patterson, J., 2025, AAS Journals to be submitted, arXiv: TBD


14. He awa whiria: the tidal streams of interstellar objects
Forbes, J.C., Bannister, M.T., Lintott, C., Forrest, A., Portegies Zwart, S., Dorsey, R.C., Albrow, L., Hopkins, M.J., 2025, ApJ Accepted

13. How Low Can Q Go?
Forbes, J.C., 2025, ApJ Accepted

12. Gas Accretion Can Drive Turbulence in Galaxies
Forbes, J.C., Emami, R., Somerville, R.S., Genel, S., Nelson, D., Pillepich, A., Burkhart, B., Bryan, G.L., Krumholz, M.R., Hernquist, L., Tonnesen, S., Torrey, P., Pandya, V., Hayward, C.C., 2023, ApJ 948, 107

11. A Solar System formation analogue in the Ophiuchus star-forming complex
Forbes, J.C., Alves, J., Lin,  D.N.C., 2021, Nature Astronomy, 5, 1009

10. Turning up the heat on `Oumuamua
Forbes, J.C., Loeb, A. 2019, ApJ, 875L, 23

9. Hydrodynamical shielding and the survival of cold streams
Forbes, J.C., Lin, D.N.C., 2019, AJ, 158, 124

8. Towards a radially-resolved semi-analytic model for the evolution of disc galaxies tuned with machine learning
Forbes, J.C., Krumholz, M.R., Speagle J.S., 2019, MNRAS, 487, 3581 

7. On the Existence of Brown Dwarfs More Massive than the Hydrogen Burning Limit
Forbes, J.C., Loeb, A. 2019 ApJ, 871, 227 

6. Evaporation of planetary atmospheres due to XUV illumination by quasars
Forbes, J.C., Loeb A., 2018 MNRAS, 479, 171

5. Suppression of star formation in dwarf galaxies by photoelectric grain heating feedback
Forbes, J.C., Krumholz, M.R., Goldbaum, N.J., and Dekel, A., 2016 Nature, 535, 523

4. Curveballs in protoplanetary disks - the effect of the Magnus force on planet formation
Forbes, J.C.,  2015, MNRAS, 453 1779

3. On the origin of the fundamental metallicity relation and the scatter in galaxy scaling relations. 
Forbes, J.C., Krumholz, M.R., Burkert, A., & Dekel, A. 2014, MNRAS, 443, 84 

2. Balance among gravitational instability, star formation, and accretion determines the structure and evolution of disk galaxies. 
Forbes, J.C., Krumholz, M.R., Burkert, A., & Dekel, A. 2014, MNRAS, 438, 1552

1. Evolving Gravitationally Unstable Disks Over Cosmic Time: Implications for Thick Disk Formation. 
Forbes, J., Krumholz, M.R.,& Burkert, A. 2012, ApJ, 754, 48 



Co-Author
48. The visibility of the Ōtautahi-Oxford interstellar object population model in LSST
Dorsey, R.C., Hopkins, M.J., Bannister, M.T., Lawler, S.M., Lintott, C., Parker, A.H., Forbes, J.C., 2025, Submitted to PSJ

47. The Solar System's passage through the Radcliffe wave during the middle Miocene
Maconi, E., Swiggum, C., Ratzenböck, S. Großschedl, J., Köhler, P., Miret-Roig, N., Meingast, S., Konietzka, R., Zucker, C., Goodman, A., Lombardi, M., Knorr, G., Lohmann, G., Forbes, J.C., Burkert, A., Opher, M., 2025, A&A, 694, 167

46. Nonlinear scattering of plane gravitational and electromagnetic waves
Camden, B., Stevens, C., Forbes, J., 2025, PRD, 111, 024032

45. On the signature of black holes on the quenched stellar mass function
Porras-Valverde, A.J., Forbes, J.C., 2024, submitted to AAS Journals

44. Enhanced Disruption of Axion Minihalos by Multiple Stellar Encounters in the Milky Way
D'Souza, I., Gordon, C., Forbes, J.C., 2024, submitted to PRD

43. Why Do Semianalytic Models Predict Higher Scatter in the Stellar Mass-Halo Mass Relation Than Cosmological Hydrodynamic Simulations?
Porras-Valverde, A.J., Forbes, J.C., Somerville, R.S., Stevens, A.R.H., Holley-Bockelmann, K., Berlind, A.A., Genel, S., 2024, ApJ, 976, 148

42. Toward Implementation of the Pressure-regulated, Feedback-modulated Model of Star Formation in Cosmological Simulations: Methods and Application to TNG
Hassan, S., Ostriker, E.C., Kim, C.-G., Bryan, G.L., Burger, J.D., Fielding, D.B., Forbes, J.C., Genel, S., Hernquist, L., Jeffreson, S.M.R., Motwani, B., Smith, M.C., Somerville, R.S., Steinwandel, U.P., Teyssier, R., 2024, ApJ, 975, 151


41. Stochastic Modelling of Star Formation Histories III. Constraints from Physically-Motivated Gaussian Processes
Iyer, K.G., Speagle, J.S., Caplar, N., Forbes, J.C., Gawiser, E. Leja, J., Tacchella, S., 2024, ApJ, 961, 53

40. Gas Morphology of Milky Way-like Galaxies in the TNG50: Signals of Twisting and Stretching
Waters, T.K., Peterson, C., Emami, R., Shen, X., Hernquist, L, Smith, R., Vogelsberger, M., Alcock, C., Tremblay, G., Liska, M., Forbes, J.C., Moreno, J., 2024, ApJ, 961, 193

39. The interplay bewteen feedback, accretion, transport and winds in setting gas-phase metal distribution in galaxies
Sharda, P., Ginzburg, O., Krumholz, M.R., Forbes, J.C., Wisnioski, E., Mingozzi, M., Zovaro, H.R.M., Dekel, A., 2024, MNRAS, 528, 2232


38. Arkenstone I: A Novel Method for Robustly Capturing High Specific Energy Outflows In Cosmological Simulations
Smith, M.C., Fielding D.B., Bryan, G.L, Kim, C-G., Ostriker, E.C., Somerville, R.S., Stern, J., Su, K-Y., Weinberger, R., Hu, C-Y., Forbes, J.C., Hernquist, L, Burkhart, B., Li, Y., 2024, MNRAS, 527, 1216

37. The star formation history of the Sco-Cen association. Coherent star formation patterns in space and time
Ratzenböck, S., Großschedl, J.E., Alves, J. Miret-Roig, N., Bomze, I., Forbes, J., Goodman, A., Hacar, A., Lin, D. Meingast, S., Möller, T., Piecka, M., Posch, L, Rottensteiner, A., Swiggum, C. Zucker, C., 2023, A&A, 678, 71

36. The Global Structure of Molecular Clouds. I. Trends with Mass and Star Formation Rate
Imara, N., Forbes, J.C., 2023, ApJ, 956, 114


35. The Galactic Interstellar Object Population: A Framework for Prediction and Inference
Hopkins, M.J., Lintott, C., Bannister, M.T., Mackereth, J.T., Forbes, J.C., 2023, AJ, 166, 241

34. A Unified Model for the Coevolution of Galaxies and Their Circumgalactic Medium: The Relative Roles of Turbulence and Atomic Cooling Physics
Pandya, V., Fielding, D.B., Bryan, G.L., Carr, C., Somerville, R.S., Stern, J., Faucher-Giguère, C.-A., Hafen, Z., Anglés-Alcázar, D., Forbes, J.C., 2023, ApJ, 956, 118

33. Characterizing the Conditional Galaxy Property Distribution Using Gaussian Mixture Models
Zhang, Y., Pullen A. R., Somerville, R.S., Breysse, P.C., Forbes, J.C., Yang, S., Li, Y., Maniyar, A.S., 2023, ApJ, 950, 159

32. The Neon Gap: Probing Ionization with Dwarf Galaxies at z~1
Pharo, J., Guo, Y., Koo, D.C., Forbes, J.C., Guhathakurta, P., 2023, ApJL 946, 5

31. The Earliest Stage of Galactic Star Formation
Steinhardt, C.L., Rusakov, V., Clark, T.H., Diaconu, A., Forbes, J., Sneppen, A., Weaver, J., 2023, ApJ, 949, 38

30. A 3D View of Orion: I. Barnard's Loop
Foley, M.M., Goodman, A., Zucker, C., Forbes, J.C., Konietzka, R., Swiggum, C., Alves, J., Bally, J., Soler, J.D., Grosschedl, J., Bialy, S., Grudic, M.Y., Leike, R., Ensslin, T., 2023, ApJ, 947, 66

29. Empirical Dust Attenuation Model Leads to More Realistic UVJ Diagram for TNG100 Galaxies
Nagaraj, G., Forbes, J.C., Leja, J., Foreman-Mackey, D., Hayward, C.C., 2022, ApJ, 939, 29


28. On the Robustness of the Velocity Anisotropy Parameter in Probing the Stellar Kinematics of Milky Way-Like Galaxies: Takeaway from TNG50 Simulation
Emami, R., Hernquist, L, Vogelsberger, M., Shen, X., Speagle, J.S., Moreno, J., Alcock, C., Genel, S., Forbes, J.C., Marinacci, F., Torrey, P., 2022, ApJ, 937, 20

27. Code Comparison in Galaxy Scale Simulations with Resolved Supernova Feedback: Lagrangian vs. Eulerian Methods
Hu, C.-Y., Smith, M.C., Teyssier, R., Bryan, G.L., Verbeke, R., Emerick, A., Somerville, R.S., Burkhart, B., Li, Y., Forbes, J.C., Starkenburg, T., 2023, ApJ, 950, 132

26. A Bayesian Population Model for the Observed Dust Attenuation in Galaxies
Nagaraj, G., Forbes, J.C., Leja, J., Foreman-Mackey, D., Hayward, C.C., 2022, ApJ, 932, 54


25. Where to find over-massive brown dwarfs: new benchmark systems for binary evolution
Majidi, D., Forbes J.C., Loeb, A., 2022, ApJ, 932, 91 

24. Characterizing mass, momentum, energy, and metal outflow rates of multiphase galactic winds in the FIRE-2 cosmological simulations
Pandya, V., Fielding, D.B., Angles-Alcazar, D., Somerville, R.S., Bryan, G.L., Hayward, C.C., Stern, J., Kim, C.-G., Quataert, E., Forbes, J.C., Faucher-Giguere, C.-A., Feldmann, R., Hafen, Z., Hopkins P.F., Keres, D., Murray, N., Wetzel, A., 2021, MNRAS, 508, 2979


23. Touching the Stars: Using High-Resolution 3D Printing to Visualize Stellar Nurseries
Imara, N., Forbes, J.C., Weaver, J. C., 2021, ApJL

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22. On the origin of the mass-metallicity gradient relation in the local Universe
Sharda, P., Krumholz, M. R., Wisnioski, E., Acharyya, A., Federrath, C., Forbes, J.C., 2021, MNRAS, 504, 53

21. The ρ Oph region revisited with Gaia EDR3
Grasser, N., Ratzenböck, S. Alves, J., Großschedl, J., Meingast, S., Zucker, C. Hacar, A., Lada, C., Goodman, A., Lombardi, M., Forbes, J.C., Bomze, I.M, Möller, T., 2021, A&A, 652, 2

20. The physics of gas phase metallicity gradients in galaxies
Sharda, P., Krumholz M.R., Wisnioski, E., Forbes, J.C., Federrath, C., Acharyya, A., 2021, MNRAS in press

19. Stellar Halo Morphology from TNG50: Twisted and Twisted-Stretched Halos
Emami, R., Hernquist, L., Alcock, C. Genel, S., Bose, S., Weinberger, R., Vogelsberger, M., Shen, X., Speagle, J.S., Marinacci, F., Forbes, J.C., Torrey, P., 2020 Submitted

18. A Framework for Multiphase Galactic Wind Launching Using TIGRESS
Kim, C.-G., Ostriker, E.C., Fielding, D.B., Smith, M.C., Bryan, G.L., Somerville, R.S., Forbes, J.C., Genel, S., Hernquist, L., 2020, ApJ, 903, 34

17. DM halo morphological types of MW-like galaxies in the TNG50 simulation: Simple, Twisted, or Stretched
Emami, R., Genel, S., Hernquist, L., Alcock, C. Bose, S., Weinberger, R., Vogelsberger, M., Marinacci, F., Loeb, A., Torrey, P., Forbes, J.C. 2020 Submitted


16. The Diversity and Variability of Star Formation Histories in Models of Galaxy Evolution
Iyer, K.G., Tacchella, S., Genel, S., Hayward, C.C., Hernquist, L., Brooks, A.M., Caplar, N., Davé, R., Diemer, B., Forbes, J.C., Gawiser, E., Somerville, R.S., Starkenburg, T.K., 2020, MNRAS, 498, 430

15. First results from SMAUG: The need for preventative stellar feedback and improved baryon cycling in semi-analytic models of galaxy formation
Pandya, V., Somerville, R.S., Anglés-Alcázar, D., Hayward, C.C. Bryan, G.L., Fielding, D.B., Forbes, J.C., Burkhart, B., Genel, S., Hernquist, L., Kim, C.-G., Tonnesen, S., Starkenburg, T., 2020, ApJ, 905, 4

14. First results from SMAUG: Uncovering the Origin of the Multiphase Circumgalactic Medium with a Comparative Analysis of Idealized and Cosmological Simulations
Fielding, D.B., Tonnesen, S. DeFelippis, D., Li, M., Su, K.-Y., Bryan, G.L., Kim, C.-G., Forbes, J.C., Somerville, R.S., Battaglia, N., Schneider, E.E., Li, Y., Choi, E., Hayward, C.C., Hernquist, L., 2020, ApJ, 903, 32

13. First results from SMAUG: Characterization of Multiphase Galactic Outflows from a Suite of Local Star-Forming Galactic Disk Simulations
Kim, C.-G., Ostriker, E.C., Somerville, R.S., Bryan, G.L., Fielding, D.B., Forbes, J.C., Hayward, C.C., Hernquist, L., Pandya, V., 2020, ApJ, 900, 61

12. First results from SMAUG: Insights into star formation conditions from spatially-resolved ISM properties in TNG
Motwani, B. Genel, S., Bryan, G.L., Kim, C.-G., Pandya, V., Somerville, R.S., Smith, M.C., Ostriker, E.C., Nelson, D., Pillepich, A., Forbes. J.C., Belfiore, F. Pakmor, R., Hernquist, L., 2020 submitted

11. Stochastic modelling of star-formation histories II: star-formation variability from molecular clouds and gas inflow
Tacchella, S., Forbes, J.C., Caplar, N., 2020 MNRAS, 497, 698


10. ENZO: An Adaptive Mesh Refinement Code for Astrophysics (Version 2.6)
55 authors including Forbes, J., 2019 JOSS 4, 1636 


9. Modeling the atomic-to-molecular transition in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation
Diemer, B., Stevens, A.H.R., Forbes, J.C., et al, 2018 ApJS, 238, 33
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8. A Unified Model for Galactic Discs: Star Formation, Turbulence Driving, and Mass Transport
Krumholz, M.R., Burkhart, B., Forbes, J.C., Crocker, R. M., 2018 MNRAS, 477, 2716

7. Habitable Evaporated Cores and the Occurrence of Panspermia near the Galactic Center
Chen, H., Forbes, J.C., Loeb A., 2018 ApJL 855 1

6. Mass Transport and Turbulence in Gravitationally Unstable Disk Galaxies. II: The Effects of Star Formation Feedback
Goldbaum, N.J., Krumholz, M.R., and Forbes, J.C., 2016 ApJ, 827, 28

5. Stellar Mass--Gas-phase Metallicity Relation at 0.5≤z≤0.7: A Power Law with Increasing Scatter towards the Low-mass Regime
Guo, Y., Koo, D. C., Lu, Y., Forbes, J.C., et al., 2016, ApJ, 822, 103


4. Mass Transport and Turbulence in Gravitationally Unstable Disk Galaxies. I. The Case of Pure Self-gravity
Goldbaum, N.J., Krumholz, M.R., and Forbes, J.C., 2015 ApJ, 814 131

3. 
VADER: A Flexible, Robust, Open-Source Code for Simulating Viscous Thin Accretion Disks.  
Krumholz, M.R. and Forbes, J.C., 2015 Astronomy & Computing 11 1

2. Mixing and transport of metals by gravitational instability-driven turbulence in galactic discs. 
Petit, A.C., Krumholz, M.R., Goldbaum, N.J., and Forbes, J.C., 2015 MNRAS, 449 2588

1. Lyman-alpha transfer in primordial hydrogen recombination. 
Hirata, C.M., Forbes, J. 2009, Phys. Rev. D, 80, 023001

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Other Publications

3. A PDF PSA, or Never gonna set_xscale again --guilty feats with logarithms
Forbes, J.C., 2020, an arXiv April Fool's day post.


2. Vibrio cholerae motility exerts drag force to impede attack by the bacterial predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus​
Duncan M.C., Forbes, J.C., Nguyen, Y., Shull, L.M., Gillette, R.K., Lazinski D.W., Ali, A., Shanks, R.M.Q., Kadouri, D.E., Camilli, A., 2018, Nature Communications, 9, 4757


1. Closer than we think?
Forbes, J.C. Nature Astronomy 2018, 2, 450–451


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