Publications
The following is a list of my peer-reviewed publications. Click on the title to access the full ADS bibliographic record. Then click "arxiv" to download the full article pdf for free.
- Do nuclear rings in barred galaxies form at the shear minimum of the rotation curve? , Sormani and Li, submitted to MNRAS, 2020
- The Cloud Factory I: Generating resolved filamentary molecular clouds from galactic-scale forces , Smith, Tress, Sormani, Glover, Klessen, Clark, Izquierdo, Duarte-Cabral, and Zucker, MNRAS, 2020
- Simulations of the star-forming molecular gas in an interacting M51-like galaxy, Tress, Smith, Sormani, Glover, Klessen, Mac Low and Clark, MNRAS, 2019
- The geometry of the gas surrounding the Central Molecular Zone: on the origin of localized molecular clouds with extreme velocity dispersions , Sormani, Tress, Glover, Klessen, Barnes, Battersby, Clark, Hatchfield and Smith, MNRAS, 2019
- On the ridges, undulations, and streams in Gaia DR2: linking the topography of phase space to the orbital structure of an N-body bar , Fragkoudi, Katz, Trick, White, Di Matteo, Sormani, Khoperskov, Haywood, Hallé and Gómez, MNRAS, 2019
- The effect of rotation on the thermal instability of stratified galactic atmospheres - II. The formation of high-velocity clouds , Sormani and Sobacchi, MNRAS, 2019
- The effect of rotation on the thermal instability of stratified galactic atmospheres - I. Local analysis , Sobacchi and Sormani, MNRAS, 2019
- Mass inflow rate into the Central Molecular Zone: observational determination and evidence of episodic accretion, Sormani and Barnes, MNRAS, 2019
- First metallicity determination from near-infrared spectra for five obscured Cepheids discovered in the inner disc, Inno, Urbaneja, Matsunaga, Bono, Nonino, Debattista, Sormani, Bergemann, de Silva, Lemasle, Romaniello and Rix, MNRAS, 2019
- Models of rotating coronae, Sormani, Sobacchi, Pezzulli, Binney and Klessen, MNRAS, 2018
- A dynamical mechanism for the origin of nuclear rings , Sormani, Sobacchi, Fragkoudi, Ridley, Tress, Glover and Klessen, MNRAS, 2018
- A theoretical explanation for the Central Molecular Zone asymmetry, Sormani, Tress, Ridley, Glover, Klessen, Binney, Magorrian and Smith, MNRAS, 2018
- A Common Central Engine for Long Gamma Ray Bursts and Type Ib/c Supernovae?, Sobacchi, Granot, Bromberg and Sormani, MNRAS, 2017
- Periodicity makes galactic shocks unstable - I. Linear analysis, Sormani, Sobacchi, Shore, Tress and Klessen, MNRAS, 2017
- Nuclear Spirals in the inner Milky Way, Ridley, Sormani*, Tress, Magorrian and Klessen, MNRAS, 2017
- Kink instability of force-free jets: a parameter space study , Sobacchi, Lyubarsky and Sormani, MNRAS, 2017
- A simple method to convert sink particles into stars, Sormani, Tress, Klessen and Glover, MNRAS, 2017
- A model for periodic blazars, Sobacchi, Sormani* and Stamerra, MNRAS, 2017
- Counterintuitive effect of gravity on the heat capacity of a solid sphere: Re-examination of a well-known problem, De Palma and Sormani*, American Journal of Physics, 2015
- Gas flow in barred potentials - III. Effects of varying the quadrupole, Sormani, Binney and Magorrian, MNRAS, 2015
- Gas flow in barred potentials - II. Bar-driven spiral arms, Sormani, Binney and Magorrian, MNRAS, 2015
- Gas flow in barred potentials, Sormani, Binney and Magorrian, MNRAS, 2015
- Recognizing the fingerprints of the Galactic bar: a quantitative approach to comparing model (l, v) distributions to observations, Sormani and Magorrian, MNRAS, 2015
- Gravothermal catastrophe: The dynamical stability of a fluid model Sormani and Bertin, A&A, 2013
* = the first and second author contributed equally to the paper