The Stellar Populations and Dynamics Research Group
(The SPODYR Group)
Golden Webinar: "From Believe to Realism and Beauty: Given the Non-Existence of Dark Matter, how do I navigate amongst the Stars and between Galaxies?"
April 9th, 2021, 11am in Santiago = 5pm in Brussels
Supermassive black holes: monsters in the early Universe
Oxford University Press Blog, Nov.3rd, 2020
The enduring mystery of how galaxies grow up
Oxford University Press Blog, Sept.28th, 2020
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
Recent Publications:
Do ultra compact dwarf galaxies form monolithically or as merged star cluster complexes?
Mahani, Zonoozi, Haghi, Jerabkova, Kroupa, Mieske
(MNRAS, 2021)
IMF-induced intrinsic uncertainties on measuring galaxy distances based on the number of giant stars: the case of the ultra-diffuse galaxy NGC 1052-DF2
Zonoozi, Haghi, Kroupa
(MNRAS, 2021)
On the absence of backsplash analogues to NGC 3109 in the ΛCDM framework
Banik, Haslbauer, Pawlowski, Famaey, Kroupa
(MNRAS, 2021)
Barred spiral galaxies in modified gravity theories
Roshan, Banik, Ghafourian, Thies, Famaey, Asencio, Kroupa
(MNRAS, 2021)
3D Morphology of Open Clusters in the Solar Neighborhood with Gaia EDR3: its Relation to Cluster Dynamics
Pang, Li, Yu, Tang, Dinnbier, Kroupa, Pasquato, Kouwenhoven
(ApJ, 2021)
The Phantom of RAMSES user guide for galaxy simulations using Milgromian and Newtonian gravity
Nagesh, Banik, Thies, Kroupa, Famaey, Wittenburg, Parziale, Haslbauer
(Canadian Journal of Physics, 2021)
A massive blow for LCDM - the high redshift, mass, and collision
velocity of the interacting galaxy
cluster El Gordo contradicts concordance cosmology
Asencio, Banik, Kroupa (MNRAS, 2021)
The Global Stability of M33 in MOND
Banik, Thies, Famaey, Candlish, Kroupa, Ibata (ApJ, 2020)
The Lifetimes of Star Clusters Born with a Top-heavy IMF
Haghi, Safaei, Zonoozi, Kroupa (ApJ, 2020)
The KBC void and Hubble tension contradict LCDM on a Gpc scale - Milgromian dynamics as a possible solution
Haslbauer, Banik, Kroupa (MNRAS, 2020)
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)
The failure of testing for cosmic opacity via the distance-duality relation
Vavrycuk, Kroupa (MNRAS, 2020)
Scale-invariant dynamics in the Solar system
Banik, Kroupa (MNRAS, 2020)
Solar System limits on gravitational dipoles
Banik, Kroupa (MNRAS, 2020)
2015: Phantom of Ramses (PoR) code for galaxy formation and evolution in
Milgromian dynamics/MOND:
Phantom of Ramses (PoR) code is a
patch to RAMSES . By default the patch comes with the
RAMSES code whenever it is downloaded.
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