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 @ uni-bonn.de
Tel: +49 (0)228 73-6140(office) // 73-3655 / -2366(secretary)
Fax: +49 (0)228 73-7666 / -2505



The Aarseth Nbody meeting in Prague
December 3rd-6th, 2019, Charles University



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



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

MNRAS, in press, (2019)


The Salpeter IMF and its descendants

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


The ultra-diffuse dwarf galaxies NGC 1052-DF2 and 1052-DF4 are in conflict with standard cosmology

Haslbauer et al. 2019, MNRAS





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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