Publications

5 first-author — 11 refereed works with 98 citations and an h-index of 7 (ADS, March 2026)

Refereed & Submitted

  1. 1
    C. E. Williams, S. Naoz, S. C. Rose, B. Burkhart, N. Yoshida, A. Chen, K. Kremer, W. Lake, F. Marinacci, S. H. Menon, M. Vogelsberger
    A cosmological framework for stellar collisions at high redshift in proto-globular clusters, nuclear star clusters, and Little Red Dots
    Submitted to ApJ Submitted
  2. 2
    C. E. Williams, S. Naoz, N. Yoshida, W. Lake, B. Burkhart, F. Marinacci, M. Vogelsberger, S. H. Menon, A. Chen, K. Kremer
    Observing compact Pop III star clusters and the presence of cosmic streaming
    ApJ 997 202 (2026)  ·  arXiv:2509.22776
  3. 3
    A. Chen, W. Lake, C. E. Williams, S. Naoz, B. Burkhart, F. Marinacci, M. Vogelsberger, N. Yoshida, S. H. Menon
    Supersonic Turbulence in Primordial Halos: A Comparison With and Without Streaming Velocities
    Accepted, ApJ Accepted  ·  arXiv:2507.12993
  4. 4
    C. E. Williams, S. Naoz, W. Lake, B. Burkhart, F. Marinacci, M. Vogelsberger, N. Yoshida, S. H. Menon, A. Chen, A. Adamo
    ΛCDM star clusters at cosmic dawn: stellar densities, environment, and equilibrium
    ApJ 990 135 (2025)  ·  arXiv:2502.17561
  5. 5
    W. Lake, M. Y. Grudić, S. Naoz, N. Yoshida, C. E. Williams, B. Burkhart, F. Marinacci, M. Vogelsberger, A. Chen
    The Stellar Initial Mass Function of Early Dark Matter-free Gas Objects
    ApJL 985 L6 (2025)  ·  arXiv:2410.02868
  6. 6
    W. Lake, C. E. Williams, S. Naoz, F. Marinacci, B. Burkhart, M. Vogelsberger, Y. S. Chiou, G. Chiaki, N. Yoshida
    The Supersonic Project: Early Star Formation with the Streaming Velocity
    ApJ 973 2 (2024)  ·  arXiv:2405.14938
  7. 7
    C. E. Williams, W. Lake, S. Naoz, B. Burkhart, T. Treu, F. Marinacci, Y. Nakazato, M. Vogelsberger, N. Yoshida, G. Chiaki, Y. S. Chiou, A. Chen
    The Supersonic Project: Lighting up the faint end of the JWST UV Luminosity Function
    ApJL 960 L16 (2024)  ·  arXiv:2310.03799
  8. 8
    W. Lake, S. Naoz, F. Marinacci, B. Burkhart, M. Vogelsberger, C. E. Williams, Y. S. Chiou, G. Chiaki, Y. Nakazato, N. Yoshida
    The Supersonic Project: Star Formation in Early Star Clusters without Dark Matter
    ApJL 956 L7 (2023)  ·  arXiv:2306.01047
  9. 9
    C. E. Williams, S. Naoz, W. Lake, Y. S. Chiou, B. Burkhart, M. Vogelsberger, G. Chiaki, F. Marinacci, Y. Nakazato, N. Yoshida
    The Supersonic Project: Morphological and rotational properties of SIGOs and DM GHOSts
    ApJ 945 6 (2023)  ·  arXiv:2211.02066
  10. 10
    W. Lake, S. Naoz, B. Burkhart, M. Vogelsberger, G. Chiaki, F. Marinacci, Y. S. Chiou, N. Yoshida, Y. Nakazato, C. E. Williams
    The Supersonic Project: The early evolutionary path of SIGOs
    ApJ 943 132 (2023)  ·  arXiv:2208.05987
  11. 11
    X. Liu, V. F. He, T. M. Mikulski, D. Palenova, C. E. Williams, J. Creighton, J. D. Tasson
    Measuring the Speed of Gravitational Waves from the First and Second Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo
    Phys. Rev. D 102, 024028 (2020)  ·  arXiv:2005.03121

Other

  1. 12
    C. E. Williams
    process-fof python package
    Zenodo Repository. Python code to post-process AREPO star clusters.
  2. 12
    C. E. Williams, Advisor: Valerie Fox
    Undergraduate Senior Thesis: “The Far Future of the Universe”
    Carleton College Integrative Exercise (2021)  ·  Awarded distinction in physics, June 2021