Simon Portegies Zwart

Publications

• Oort cloud Ecology
• SiMon: Simulation Monitor for Computational Astrophysics
• Simulating the waves on Huygens' moon Titan
• Relativistic Pythagorean three-body problem
• The Oceanographic Multipurpose Software Environment (OMUSE v1.0)
• A Dynamic Formation Channel for Binaries in Embedded Clusters
• The consequences of a nearby supernova on the early solar system
• A full-lifetime planetary simulation: from stellar birth cluster evolution to planetary destruction around white dwarfs
• ‘Oumuamua and Interstellar Travel
• Revisiting the common envelope evolution in binary stars: A new semianalytic model for N -body and population synthesis codes
• Numerical verification of the microscopic time reversibility of Newton’s equations of motion: Fighting exponential divergence
• The origin of interstellar asteroidal objects like 1I/2017 U1 ‘Oumuamua
• Amuse: The Astrophysical Multipurpose Software Environment
• Simulations from "Using Molecular Gas Observations to Guide Initial Conditions for Star Cluster Simulations"
• Simulations from "Using Molecular Gas Observations to Guide Initial Conditions for Star Cluster Simulations"
• Collisional N-body Dynamics Coupled to Self-gravitating Magnetohydrodynamics Reveals Dynamical Binary Formation
• Linking the formation and fate of exo-Kuiper belts within Solar system analogues
• Modeling of the Effects of Stellar Feedback during Star Cluster Formation Using a Hybrid Gas and N-Body Method
• The origin of the two populations of blue stragglers in M30
• The Signature of a Windy Radio Supernova Progenitor in a Binary System
• Multi-scale high-performance computing in astrophysics: simulating clusters with stars, binaries and planets
• Trimodal structure of Hercules stream explained by originating from bar resonances
• The evolution of stellar triples: the most common evolutionary pathways
• Implementing primordial binaries in simulations of star cluster formation with a hybrid MHD and direct N-Body method
• Pulsating ULXs: large pulsed fraction excludes strong beaming
• Effects of stellar density on the photoevaporation of circumstellar discs
• The formation of solar-system analogs in young star clusters
• Survivability of planetary systems in young and dense star clusters
• The viscous evolution of circumstellar discs in young star clusters
• Non-intrusive hierarchical coupling strategies for multi-scale simulations in gravitational dynamics
• Using GPUs to Enable Simulation with Computational Gravitational Dynamics in Astrophysics
• Identifying Earth-impacting asteroids using an artificial neural network
• Galactic tide and local stellar perturbations on the Oort cloud: creation of interstellar comets
• Linking the formation and fate of exo-Kuiper belts within Solar system analogues
• Searching for solar siblings in APOGEE and Gaia DR2 with N-body simulations
• HyMUSE: a multi-model framework for Hydrology
• Modelling the Milky Way as a dry Galaxy
• A planetesimal orbiting within the debris disc around a white dwarf star
• APEX-SEPIA660 early science: gas at densities above 10^7 cm^-3 towards OMC-1
• Bonsai-SPH: a GPU accelerated astrophysical Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics code
• The carbon footprint of astronomy research in the Netherlands
• The ecological impact of high-performance computing in astrophysics
• External photoevaporation of circumstellar discs constrains the time-scale for planet formation
• On the survivability of planets in young massive clusters and its implication of planet orbital architectures in globular clusters
• Simulating stellar winds in AMUSE
• A Triple Origin for Twin Blue Stragglers in Close Binaries
• AMUSE: the Astrophysical Multipurpose Software Environment
• Amusecode/Amuse: Release 11.3.2
• The Astrophysical Multipurpose Software Environment (Amuse)
• Creating the Virtual Universe
• Binary white dwarfs in the halo of the Milky Way
• A debris disc under the influence of a wide planetary-mass companion: the system of HD 106906
• Changes in orientation and shape of protoplanetary discs moving through an ambient medium
• Characterising face-on accretion onto and the subsequent contraction of protoplanetary discs
• Disc truncation in embedded star clusters: Dynamical encounters versus face-on accretion
• Forming short-period Wolf-Rayet X-ray binaries and double black holes through stable mass transfer
• Effects of Combined Stellar Feedback on Star Formation in Stellar Clusters
• High-velocity runaway stars from three-body encounters
• Accretion onto Protoplanetary Discs: Implications for Globular Cluster Evolution
• Quick method for calculating energy dissipation in tidal interaction
• A pilgrimage to gravity on GPUs
• A sparse octree gravitational N-body code that runs entirely on the GPU processor
• High performance direct gravitational N-body simulations on graphics processing units II: An implementation in CUDA
• Intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters: observations and simulations
• A connected component-based method for efficiently integrating multi-scale N-body systems
• High-redshift formation and evolution of central massive objects - II. The census of BH seeds
• Face-on accretion onto a protoplanetary disc
• How Sedna and family were captured in a close encounter with a solar sibling
• Interstellar objects follow the collapse of molecular clouds
• Exploring the Secular Evolution of the Solar System and Debris Disk in the Birth Cluster
• Wetenschap als kinderspel
• Mergers of equal-mass binaries with compact object companions from mass transfer in triple star systems
• Gargantuan chaotic gravitational three-body systems and their irreversibility to the Planck length
• Deep-learning enhancement of large scale numerical simulations
• Fast spectrophotometry of WD 1145+017
• Catching a Planet: A Tidal Capture Origin for the Oxomoon Candidate Kepler 1625b I
• Capture of exocomets and the erosion of the Oort cloud due to stellar encounters in the Galaxy
• Gone with the wind: the impact of wind mass transfer on the orbital evolution of AGB binary systems
• Interstellar objects follow the collapse of molecular clouds
• Multi-scale and multi-domain computational astrophysics
• Inside-out planet formation
• On Estimating the Total Number of Intermediate Mass Black Holes
• Formation of young massive clusters from turbulent molecular clouds
• Catching Element Formation In The Act ; The Case for a New MeV Gamma-Ray Mission: Radionuclide Astronomy in the 2020s
• Newton versus the machine: Solving the chaotic three-body problem using deep neural networks
• Mass transfer between debris discs during close stellar encounters
• Double White Dwarf Merger Rates
• A triple origin for the lack of tight coplanar circumbinary planets around short-period binaries
• Are Superluminous Supernovae and Long GRBs the Products of Dynamical Processes in Young Dense Star Clusters?
• Dynamics of the Oort Cloud In the Gaia Era I: Close Encounters
• Detecting gravitational waves from the Galactic center with pulsar timing
• Bonsai: A GPU Tree-Code
• 24.77 Pflops on a Gravitational Tree-code to Simulate the Milky Way Galaxy with 18600 GPUs
• The fragility of planetary systems
• On the Minimal Accuracy Required for Simulating Self-gravitating Systems by Means of Direct N-body Methods
• Dynamical Mass Segregation on a Very Short Timescale
• A Keplerian-based Hamiltonian splitting for gravitational N-body simulations
• GPU-enabled particle-particle particle-tree scheme for simulating dense stellar cluster system
• Gravitational tree-code on graphics processing units: implementation in CUDA
• How the sun abducted dwarf planets from an alien solar system
• Simulating Star Clusters with the AMUSE Software Framework. I. Dependence of Cluster Lifetimes on Model Assumptions and Cluster Dissolution Modes
• The Astrophysical Multipurpose Software Environment
• Was the nineteenth century giant eruption of Eta Carinae a merger event in a triple system?
• Simulations of the tidal interaction and mass transfer of a star in an eccentric orbit around an intermediate-mass black hole: the case of HLX-1
• Probing the formation of planetesimals in the Galactic Centre using Sgr A* flares
• The origin of chaos in the orbit of comet 1P/Halley
• The Formation and Dynamical Evolution of Young Star Clusters
• Stellar winds near massive black holes - the case of the S-stars
• White dwarf pollution by planets in stellar binaries
• Secular dynamics of hierarchical quadruple systems: the case of a triple system orbited by a fourth body
• The fate of supernova remnants near quiescent supermassive black holes
• The initial conditions of observed star clusters - I. Method description and validation
• Quest for the lost siblings of the Sun
• Secular dynamics of multiplanet systems: implications for the formation of hot and warm Jupiters via high-eccentricity migration
• The rate of stellar encounters along a migrating orbit of the Sun
• White dwarfs in the building blocks of the Galactic spheroid
• Population synthesis of ultracompact X-ray binaries in the Galactic bulge
• The signatures of the parental cluster on field planetary systems
• Simulating Stellar Cluster Formation and Early Evolution
• Spectrum formation in X-ray pulsars at very low mass accretion rate
• The evolution of triple-star systems
• The evolution of the Sun's birth cluster and the search for the solar siblings with Gaia
• The Influence of Dense Gas Rings on the Dynamics of a Stellar Disk in the Galactic Center
• The contribution of young core-collapse supernova remnants to the X-ray emission near quiescent supermassive black holes
• The Oceanographic Multipurpose Software Environment
• Secular dynamics of hierarchical multiple systems composed of nested binaries, with an arbitrary number of bodies and arbitrary hierarchical structure. First applications to multiplanet and multistar systems
• The evolution of hierarchical triple star-systems
• Radial migration of the Sun in the Milky Way: a statistical study
• Stellar disc destruction by dynamical interactions in the Orion Trapezium star cluster
• Oort cloud Ecology
• The dynamics of stellar discs in live dark-matter haloes
• Stability of multiplanetary systems in star clusters
• Structure and evolution of high-mass stellar mergers
• Star formation in the vicinity of nuclear black holes: young stellar objects close to Sgr A*
• Relativistic dynamics of stars near a supermassive black hole
• On the survival of resonant and non-resonant planetary systems in star clusters
• Simulations of stripped core-collapse supernovae in close binaries
• Sapporo2: a versatile direct N-body library
• Young stellar objects close to Sgr A*
• The carbon footprint of NL astronomy in 2019
• The effects of early massive star formation
• Parallel Gravity: From Embarrassingly Parallel to Hierarchical
• The secular evolution of the Kuiper belt after a close stellar encounter
• The evolution of triples with a Roche lobe filling outer star
• On the reliability of N-body simulations
• The effect of many minor mergers on the size growth of compact quiescent galaxies
• The moment of core collapse in star clusters with a mass function
• The origin of the two populations of blue stragglers in M30.
• The growth of massive stars via stellar collisions in ensemble star clusters
• On the effects of subvirial initial conditions and the birth temperature of R136
• Expanding shells around young clusters - S 171/Be 59
• Impact of bar resonances in the velocity-space distribution of the solar neighbourhood stars in a self-consistent N-body galactic disc simulation
• Birth cluster simulations of planetary systems with multiple super-Earths
• Exploring the possibility of Peter Pan discs across stellar mass
• Evolution of circumstellar discs in young star-forming regions
• Survey of Orion Disks with ALMA (SODA)
• The Gravitational Wave Universe Toolbox
• Statistical features of multiple Compton scattering in a strong magnetic field
• Using molecular gas observations to guide initial conditions for star cluster simulations
• Chaos in self-gravitating many-body systems
• A Monte Carlo study of early gas expulsion and evolution of star clusters
• Stellar triples on the edge.
• Early-forming Massive Stars Suppress Star Formation and Hierarchical Cluster Assembly
• amusecode/amuse: Release 11.3.2
• the Astrophysical Multipurpose Software Environment (AMUSE)
• Punctuated Chaos and Indeterminism in Self-gravitating Many-body Systems
• Modeling the Chemical Enrichment History of the Bulge Fossil Fragment Terzan 5
• JuMBOs: Jupiter-Mass Binary Objects as originating from four models ISF, FFC, SPP and SPP
• JuMBOs: Jupiter-Mass Binary Objects as originating from four models ISF, FFC, SPP and SPP
• Radiation shielding of protoplanetary discs in young star-forming regions
• Astrophysics with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
• Cosmology with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
• Bright X-ray pulsars
• Early evolution and three-dimensional structure of embedded star clusters
• Punctuated chaos and the unpredictability of the Galactic Centre S-star orbital evolution
• Velocity-space substructures and bar resonances in an N-body Milky Way
• Modeling protoplanetary disk evolution in young star forming regions
• Modeling evolution from gas to young massive star clusters
• The paradox of infinitesimal granularity
• Individual chaotic behaviour of the S-stars in the Galactic centre
• Once upon a time in the Oort cloud; when did the Sun Lost its Siblings
• The steady state of intermediate-mass black holes near a supermassive black hole
• Who shot Melnick 34: the last bully binary ejected from the young star cluster R136 in the Tarantula nebula
• Who shot Melnick 34: the last bully binary ejected from the young star cluster R136 in the Tarantula nebula
• The origin and evolution of wide Jupiter mass binary objects in young stellar clusters
• Isles of regularity in a sea of chaos amid the gravitational three-body problem
• Trajectory of the stellar flyby that shaped the outer Solar System
• The Ecological Impact of High-performance Computing in Astrophysics
• Two waves of massive stars running away from the young cluster R136
• VENICE: A multi-scale operator-splitting algorithm for multi-physics simulations
• Binary Disruption and Ejected Stars from Hierarchical Star Cluster Assembly
• Origin of transition disk cavities
• Massive Star Cluster Formation with Binaries. I. Evolution of Binary Populations
• Evaluating the gravitational wave detectability of globular clusters and the Magellanic Clouds for LISA
• Massive star cluster formation
• Suppression of giant planet formation around low-mass stars in clustered environments
• Giant bug eats scientific results
• Giant bug eats scientific results
• Gargantuan chaotic gravitational three-body systems II
• A hybrid approach for solving the gravitational N-body problem with Artificial Neural Networks
• Magnetospheric flows in X-ray pulsars
• Cold planet population formed in star-clustered environment