CV

Current Position

PhD Candidate, Northwestern University

Advisor: Fred Rasio


Fellowships

  • Fulbright Ph.D. Scholarship
  • The Brinson Foundation Fellowship 
  • CIERA Board of Visitors Graduate Fellowship 
  • Turkish Education Foundation (TEV) Scholarship 

Selected Press Release

Cited in 88 media stories for a reach of 7.2 million

Medium-sized black holes eat stars like messy toddlers (Northwestern Now), 2023

• Messy eating habits might reveal elusive black hole (CNN), 2023

• Astronomers discover what happens when a Sun-like star meets a black hole (BBC Sky at Night), 2023

• Fascinating simulation shows black hole devouring a star like a ‘violent meal’ (New York Post), 2023

• Footage captures black holes chewing up wayward stars like a ‘messy toddler’ (Independent), 2023


Computational Experience

StarSmasher (Smoothed particle hydrodynamics) — Arepo (Moving-mesh magnetohydrodynamics) — MESA

(Stellar evolution) — CMC (Monte Carlo N -body cluster) — Rebound (N -body integrator)


Publications

1. Black Hole Accretion and Spin-up through Stellar Collisions in Dense Star Clusters

F. Kıroglu, K. Kremer, S. Biscoveanu, E. Gonz´alez, F. A. Rasio

[arXiv: 2410.01879] (submitted to ApJ)

2. Formation of Stripped Stars From Stellar Collisions in Galactic Nuclei

C. Gibson, F. Kıroğlu, J. C. Lombardi Jr., S. C. Rose, H. D. Vanderzyden, B. Mockler, M. Gallegos-Garcia, K. Kremer, E. Ramirez-Ruiz, F. A. Rasio

[arXiv: 2410.02146] (accepted to ApJ)

3. Stellar Escape from Globular Clusters II: Escape Trajectories and Extratidal Populations

Weatherford, F. A. Rasio, S. Chatterjee, G. Fragione, F. Kıroğlu, K. Kremer

[2024 ApJ 967 42]

4. Partial Tidal Disruption of Main-Sequence Stars by Intermediate-Mass Black Holes

F. Kıroğlu, J.C. Lombardi Jr., K. Kremer, G. Fragione, S. Fogarty, F. A. Rasio

[2023 ApJ 948 89]

5. Stellar Escape from Globular Clusters I: Escape Mechanisms and Properties at Ejection

N. C. Weatherford, F. Kıroğlu, G. Fragione, S. Chatterjee, K. Kremer, F. A. Rasio

[2023 ApJ 946 104]

6. Formation of Low-Mass Black Holes and Single Millisecond Pulsars in Globular Clusters

K. Kremer, C. S. Ye, F. Kıroğlu, J. C. Lombardi Jr., S. M. Ransom, F. A. Rasio

[2022 ApJL 934 L1]

7. Gravitational Microlensing Rates in Milky Way Globular Clusters

F. Kıroğlu, N. C. Weatherford, K. Kremer, C. S. Ye, G. Fragione, F. A. Rasio

[2022 ApJ 928 181]

8. Modeling Dense Star Clusters in the Milky Way and Beyond with the Cluster Monte Carlo Code

C. L. Rodriguez, N. C. Weatherford, S. C. Coughlin, P. A. Seoane, K. Breivik, S. Chatterjee, G.

Fragione, F. Kıroğu, K. Kremer, N. Z. Rui, C. S. Ye, M. Zevin, F. A. Rasio

[2022 ApJS 258 22]