44 citations · 153 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for
11 papers
The geometric origin of the thermal eccentricity law
Václav Pavlík
The distribution is commonly referred to as the `thermal eccentricity distribution' of Keplerian binaries. However, the result does not require thermal equilibrium, and i…
Formation of stable exoplanetary systems around pulsars by capture: An exercise in computational classical mechanics
Václav Pavlík, Steven N. Shore, Vladimír Karas +1
The study of our Solar System -- its formation, evolution, and long-term stability -- has been ongoing for centuries and is now a standard part of scientific education. While the f…
How a fake Kepler portrait became iconic
Steven N. Shore, Václav Pavlík
For several decades a portrait of Johannes Kepler has been widely circulating among professional astronomers, scientific and academic institutions, and the general public. Despite…
Close encounters with the Death Star: Interactions between collapsed bodies and the Solar System
Václav Pavlík, Steven N. Shore
Aims: We aim to investigate the consequences of a fast massive stellar remnant - a black hole (BH) or a neutron star (NS) - encountering a planetary system. Methods: We modelled a…
New insights into star cluster evolution towards energy equipartition
Václav Pavlík, Enrico Vesperini
We present the results of a study aimed at exploring the evolution towards energy equipartition in star cluster models with different initial degrees of anisotropy in the velocity…
Primordial mass segregation of star clusters with primordial binaries
Václav Pavlík
Observations of young star-forming regions suggest that star clusters are born completely mass segregated. These initial conditions are, however, gradually lost as the star cluster…
Primordial mass segregation of star clusters: The role of binary stars
Václav Pavlík
Observational results of young star-forming regions suggest that star clusters are completely mass segregated at birth. As a star cluster evolves dynamically, these initial conditi…
Do star clusters form in a completely mass-segregated way?
Václav Pavlík, Pavel Kroupa, Ladislav Šubr
ALMA observations of the Serpens South star-forming region suggest that stellar protoclusters may be completely mass segregated at birth. Independent observations also suggest that…
The hunt for self-similar core collapse
Václav Pavlík, Ladislav Šubr
Core collapse is a prominent evolutionary stage of self-gravitating systems. In an idealised collisionless approximation, the region around the cluster core evolves in a self-simil…
The black hole retention fraction in star clusters
Václav Pavlík, Tereza Jeřábková, Pavel Kroupa +1
Recent research has been constraining the retention fraction of black holes (BHs) in globular clusters by comparing the degree of mass segregation with -body simulations. They a…
Neutron stars and millisecond pulsars in star clusters: implications for the diffuse -radiation from the Galactic Centre
Giacomo Fragione, Václav Pavlík, Sambaran Banerjee
Globular clusters (GCs) are the ideal environment for the formation of neutron stars (NSs) and millisecond pulsars (MSPs). NSs origin and evolution provide a useful information on…