The Stellar Populations and Dynamics Research Group

(The SPODYR Group)


Perth and the Indian Ocean, March 2016

Prof. Dr. Pavel Kroupa (CV)

I like knedliky and dark matter. But knedliky can be eaten while dark matter cannot. Also, dark matter does not appear to exist. (adapted from Jaroslav Haas, Oct.2nd, 2019 in Praha when introducing my colloquium on the IMF)


Helmholtz-Institut fuer Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Theory Group, Universitaet Bonn
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet
Nussallee 14-16
D-53115 Bonn
Germany

 Postal and office address:
Argelander-Institut fuer Astronomie, Universitaet Bonn
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet
Auf dem Huegel 71
D-53121 Bonn
Germany

 Also professorem hospitem at:
Astronomical Institute of the Charles University in Prague
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
v Holesovickach 2
18000 Praha 8
Czech Republic

 e-mail: pkroupa (at) uni-bonn.de / kroupa (at) sirrah.troja.mff.cuni.cz
Tel: +49 (0)228 73-6140(office) // 73-3655 / -2366(secretary)
Fax: +49 (0)228 73-7666 / -2505



A travel report for the Erasmus+ programme led by Petr Kabath at Onrejov Observatory:

La Palma, three events in the Orion Nebula Cluster and the Corona Crisis


The citizens of my birth of town, Jindrichuv Hradec, awarded me a Crystal Rose on
October 25th, 2019



Very high redshift quasars and the rapid emergence of super-massive black holes

Kroupa, Subr, Jerabkova, Wang, MNRAS (2020)


Constraints on the star formation histories of galaxies in the Local Cosmological Volume

Kroupa, Haslbauer, Banik, Nagesh, Pflamm-Altenburg, MNRAS (2020)


Tidal tails of open star clusters as probes to early gas expulsion I: A semi-analytic model

Dinnbier, Kroupa, A&A (2020)


Tidal tails of open star clusters as probes to early gas expulsion II: Predictions for Gaia

Dinnbier, Kroupa, A&A (2020)


The formation of exponential disk galaxies in MOND

Wittenburg, Kroupa & Famaey, ApJ (2020)


A correlation between the number of satellites and the baryonic bulge-to-total ratio extending beyond the Local Group

Javanmardi & Kroupa, MNRAS Letters (2019)


The Milky Way's Disk of Classical Satellite Galaxies in Light of Gaia DR2

Pawlowski & Kroupa, MNRAS (2019)


The possible role of stellar mergers for the formation of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters

Wang, Kroupa et al., MNRAS (2019)


The Salpeter IMF and its descendants

Kroupa & Jerabkova, News and Views (Nature Astronomy, June 3rd 2019)





2015: Phantom of Ramses (PoR) code for galaxy formation and evolution in Milgromian dynamics/MOND:

With a small grant from the Rectorate of the University of Bonn PK received in 2013, Fabian Lueghausen (in collaboration with Benoit Famaey and Pavel Kroupa) was able to develop in 2014 and 2015 a patch to Romain Teyssier's RAMSES code to allow dark-matter-free high-resolution simulations of galaxy formation and evolution.
The Phantom of Ramses (PoR) code is a patch to RAMSES. By default the patch comes with the RAMSES code whenever it is downloaded.


See the following link as to why cold or warm dark matter particles are not a dynamically relevant part of the Universe:
The Dark Matter Crisis: the rise and fall of a cosmological hypothesis



Press Releases


I travel a lot - here at Munich airport, August 14th 2019

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