activity
20242026
collaborators

5 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Self-regulated galaxy evolution within a self-consistently varying galaxy-wide IMF

Lukas Hof, Pavel Kroupa, Gerhard Hensler +1

Semi-analytical evolution models of galaxies are a useful and computationally inexpensive tool for fast assessment of individual properties and their evolution. In this work, speci…

astro-ph.GA2025

The p-Laplacian as a Framework for Generalizing Newtonian Gravity and MoND

D. Scherer, J. Pflamm-Altenburg, P. Kroupa +1

The Radial Acceleration Relation (RAR) follows from Milgromian gravitation (MoND). Velocity dispersion data of many dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) and galaxy clusters have been…

astro-ph.GA2024

Open star clusters and their asymmetrical tidal tails

Pavel Kroupa, Jan Pflamm-Altenburg, Sergij Mazurenko +4

Stars that evaporate from their star cluster by the energy equipartition process end up either in a leading or a trailing tidal tail. In Newtonian gravitation and for open star clu…

astro-ph.GA2024

Mass segregation and velocity dispersion as evidence for a dark star cluster

Wenjie Wu, Pavel Kroupa, Jan Pflamm-Altenburg

A dark star cluster (DSC) is a system in which the cluster potential is dominated by stellar remnants, such as black holes and neutron stars having larger masses than the long-live…

astro-ph.GA2024

The spin, expansion and contraction of open star clusters

Vikrant V. Jadhav, Pavel Kroupa, Wenjie Wu +2

Empirical constraints on the internal dynamics of open clusters are important for understanding their evolution and evaporation. High precision astrometry from Gaia DR3 are thus us…