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Universiteit Leiden Faculteit der Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen: Leiden, Zuid-Holland, NL

2009 to present | professor (Leiden Observatory)
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Simon Portegies Zwart

Education and qualifications (2)

Universiteit Utrecht: Utrecht, Utrecht, NL

1992 to 1996 | PhD (Astronomy)
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Simon Portegies Zwart

University of Amsterdam: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

1987-09 to 1992-09 | MSc (Anton Pannekoek Instituut)
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Simon Portegies Zwart

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Massive star cluster formation

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2025-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Brooke Polak; Mordecai-Mark Mac Low; Ralf S. Klessen; Simon Portegies Zwart; Eric P. Andersson; Sabrina M. Appel; Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier; Simon C. O. Glover; Stephen L. W. McMillan
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The Ecological Impact of High-performance Computing in Astrophysics

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2024 | Other
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Giant bug eats scientific results

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2024-12-12 | Conference poster
Contributors: Lourens Veen; Simon Portegies Zwart
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Giant bug eats scientific results

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2024-12-12 | Conference poster
Contributors: Lourens Veen; Simon Portegies Zwart
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Massive Star Cluster Formation with Binaries. I. Evolution of Binary Populations

The Astrophysical Journal
2024-12-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier; Alison Sills; William E. Harris; Brooke Polak; Steven Rieder; Eric P. Andersson; Sabrina M. Appel; Mordecai-Mark Mac Low; Stephen McMillan; Simon Portegies Zwart
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Origin of transition disk cavities

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2024-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Shuo Huang; Nienke van der Marel; Simon Portegies Zwart
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VENICE: A multi-scale operator-splitting algorithm for multi-physics simulations

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2024-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Maite J. C. Wilhelm; S. Portegies Zwart
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Binary Disruption and Ejected Stars from Hierarchical Star Cluster Assembly

The Astrophysical Journal
2024-11-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier; Jeremy Karam; Alison Sills; Simon Portegies Zwart; Maite J. C. Wilhelm
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Two waves of massive stars running away from the young cluster R136

Nature
2024-10-24 | Journal article
Contributors: Mitchel Stoop; Alex de Koter; Lex Kaper; Sarah Brands; Simon Portegies Zwart; Hugues Sana; Fiorenzo Stoppa; Mark Gieles; Laurent Mahy; Tomer Shenar et al.
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The Ecological Impact of High-performance Computing in Astrophysics

2024-10-04 | Interactive resource | Author
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Isles of regularity in a sea of chaos amid the gravitational three-body problem

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2024-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Alessandro Alberto Trani; Nathan W. C. Leigh; Tjarda C. N. Boekholt; Simon Portegies Zwart
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Trajectory of the stellar flyby that shaped the outer Solar System

Nature Astronomy
2024-09-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Susanne Pfalzner; Amith Govind; Simon Portegies Zwart
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The origin and evolution of wide Jupiter mass binary objects in young stellar clusters

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2024-07-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Simon Portegies Zwart; Erwan Hochart
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Once upon a time in the Oort cloud; when did the Sun Lost its Siblings

2024-05-03 | Preprint
Contributors: Simon Portegies Zwart; Shuo Huang
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Linking the formation and fate of exo-Kuiper belts within Solar system analogues

2024-05-02 | Preprint
Contributors: Dimitri Veras; Katja Reichert; Francesco Flammini Dotti; Maxwell Cai; Alexander Mustill; Andrew Shannon; Catriona McDonald; Simon Portegies Zwart; Mattheus Kouwenhoven; Rainer Spurzem
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Who shot Melnick 34: the last bully binary ejected from the young star cluster R136 in the Tarantula nebula

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2023-12-04 | Other
Contributors: Simon Portegies Zwart
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Who shot Melnick 34: the last bully binary ejected from the young star cluster R136 in the Tarantula nebula

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2023-12-04 | Other
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JuMBOs: Jupiter-Mass Binary Objects as originating from four models ISF, FFC, SPP and SPP

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2023-11-17 | Other
Contributors: Simon Portegies Zwart; Erwan Hochart
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JuMBOs: Jupiter-Mass Binary Objects as originating from four models ISF, FFC, SPP and SPP

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2023-11-17 | Other
Contributors: Simon Portegies Zwart; Erwan Hochart
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Modeling the Chemical Enrichment History of the Bulge Fossil Fragment Terzan 5

The Astrophysical Journal
2023-07-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Donatella Romano; Francesco R. Ferraro; Livia Origlia; Simon Portegies Zwart; Barbara Lanzoni; Chiara Crociati; Davide Massari; Emanuele Dalessandro; Alessio Mucciarelli; R. Michael Rich et al.
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Punctuated Chaos and Indeterminism in Self-gravitating Many-body Systems

International Journal of Modern Physics D
2023-06-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Tjarda C. N. Boekholt; Simon F. Portegies Zwart; Douglas C. Heggie
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Punctuated chaos and the unpredictability of the Galactic center S-star orbital evolution

2023-05-16 | Dataset | Author
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Contributors: Simon Portegies Zwart; Tjarda Boekholt; Douglas Heggie
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Early-forming Massive Stars Suppress Star Formation and Hierarchical Cluster Assembly

The Astrophysical Journal
2023-02-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Sean C. Lewis; Stephen L. W. McMillan; Mordecai-Mark Mac Low; Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier; Brooke Polak; Martijn J. C. Wilhelm; Aaron Tran; Alison Sills; Simon Portegies Zwart; Ralf S. Klessen et al.
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Simulations from "Using Molecular Gas Observations to Guide Initial Conditions for Star Cluster Simulations"

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2022-08-22 | Dataset
Contributors: Alison Sills; Steven Rieder; Anne Buckner; Alvaro Hacar; Simon Portegies Zwart; Paula S. Teixeira
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Simulations from "Using Molecular Gas Observations to Guide Initial Conditions for Star Cluster Simulations"

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2022-08-22 | Dataset
Contributors: Alison Sills; Steven Rieder; Anne Buckner; Alvaro Hacar; Simon Portegies Zwart; Paula S. Teixeira
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Revisiting the common envelope evolution in binary stars: A new semianalytic model for N -body and population synthesis codes

Physical Review D
2022-08-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Alessandro Alberto Trani; Steven Rieder; Ataru Tanikawa; Giuliano Iorio; Riccardo Martini; Georgii Karelin; Hila Glanz; Simon Portegies Zwart
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The carbon footprint of astronomy research in the Netherlands

Nature Astronomy
2021-12-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Floris van der Tak; Leo Burtscher; Simon Portegies Zwart; Benoît Tabone; Gijs Nelemans; Steven Bloemen; André Young; Rudy Wijnands; Annemieke Janssen; Arno Schoenmakers
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‘Oumuamua and Interstellar Travel

Inference: International Review of Science
2021-11-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Simon Portegies Zwart
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Relativistic Pythagorean three-body problem

Physical Review D
2021-10-14 | Journal article
Contributors: Tjarda C. N. Boekholt; Arend Moerman; Simon F. Portegies Zwart
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AMUSE: the Astrophysical Multipurpose Software Environment

Zenodo
2021-04-14 | Other
Contributors: Simon Portegies Zwart; Arjen van Elteren; Inti Pelupessy; Steve McMillan; Steven Rieder; Nathan de Vries; Marcell Marosvolgyi; Alfred Whitehead; Joshua Wall; Niels Drost et al.
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Oort cloud Ecology

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2021-03 | Journal article
Contributors: S. Portegies Zwart
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Implementing primordial binaries in simulations of star cluster formation with a hybrid MHD and direct N-Body method

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2020-12-18 | Journal article
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Contributors: Cournoyer-Cloutier; C.; Tran; A.; Lewis; S.; Wall; J.E.; Harris; W.E.; Mac Low; M.M.; McMillan; S.L.W.; Portegies Zwart; S.; Sills; A.
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APEX-SEPIA660 early science: gas at densities above 10^7 cm^-3 towards OMC-1

Astronomy and Astrophysics
2020-12-11 | Journal article
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Contributors: Hacar Gonzalez; A.; Hogerheijde; M.R.; Harsono; D.S.; Portegies Zwart; S.F.; De Breuck; C.; Torstensson; K.; Boland; W.; Baryshev; A.M.; Hesper; R.; Barkhof et al.
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Pulsating ULXs: large pulsed fraction excludes strong beaming

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2020-12-10 | Journal article
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Contributors: Mushtukov; A.A.; Portegies Zwart; S.; Tsygankov; S.S.; Nagirner; D.I.; Poutanen; J.
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Modeling of the Effects of Stellar Feedback during Star Cluster Formation Using a Hybrid Gas and N-Body Method

The Astrophysical Journal
2020-12-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Joshua E. Wall; Mordecai-Mark Mac Low; Stephen L. W. McMillan; Ralf S. Klessen; Simon Portegies Zwart; Andrew Pellegrino
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Effects of stellar density on the photoevaporation of circumstellar discs

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2020-11-26 | Journal article
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Contributors: Concha-Ramírez; F.; Wilhelm; M.J.C.; Portegies Zwart S.; Terwisga; S.E. van; Hacar; A.
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Trimodal structure of Hercules stream explained by originating from bar resonances

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2020-09-21 | Journal article
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Contributors: Asano; T.; Fujii; M.S.; Baba; J.; Bedorf; J.; Sellentin; E.; Portegies Zwart; S.F.
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The ecological impact of high-performance computing in astrophysics

Nature Astronomy
2020-09-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Simon Portegies Zwart
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A full-lifetime planetary simulation: from stellar birth cluster evolution to planetary destruction around white dwarfs

2020-08-01 | Other
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The evolution of stellar triples: the most common evolutionary pathways

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2020-07-31 | Journal article
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Contributors: Toonen; S.G.M.; Portegies Zwart; S.F.; Hamers; A.S.; Bandopadhyay; D.
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Non-intrusive hierarchical coupling strategies for multi-scale simulations in gravitational dynamics

Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
2020-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Simon Portegies Zwart; Inti Pelupessy; Carmen Martínez-Barbosa; Arjen van Elteren; Steve McMillan
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Bonsai-SPH: a GPU accelerated astrophysical Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics code

SciPost Astronomy
2020-05-14 | Journal article
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Contributors: Bedorf; J.; Portegies Zwart; S.F.
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Searching for solar siblings in APOGEE and Gaia DR2 with N-body simulations

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2020-04-09 | Journal article
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Contributors: Webb; J.J.; Price-Jones; N.; Bovy; J.; Portegies Zwart; S.F.; Hunt; J.A.S.; Mackereth; J.T.; Leung; H.W.
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Linking the formation and fate of exo-Kuiper belts within Solar system analogues

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2020-03-03 | Journal article
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Identifying Earth-impacting asteroids using an artificial neural network

Astronomy and Astrophysics
2020-02-04 | Journal article
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Collisional N-body Dynamics Coupled to Self-gravitating Magnetohydrodynamics Reveals Dynamical Binary Formation

The Astrophysical Journal
2019-12-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Joshua E. Wall; Stephen L. W. McMillan; Mordecai-Mark Mac Low; Ralf S. Klessen; Simon Portegies Zwart
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External photoevaporation of circumstellar discs constrains the time-scale for planet formation

Monthly Notices of the RAS (0035-8711)
2019-10-23 | Journal article
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Contributors: Concha-Ramírez; F.A.; Wilhelm; M.J.C.; Portegies Zwart; S.F.; Haworth; T.J.
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Galactic tide and local stellar perturbations on the Oort cloud: creation of interstellar comets

2019-09-18 | Journal article
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Contributors: Torres Rodriguez; S.; Cai; X.; Brown; A.G.A.; Portegies Zwart; S.F.
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On the survivability of planets in young massive clusters and its implication of planet orbital architectures in globular clusters

Monthly Notices of the RAS (0035-8711)
2019-09-05 | Journal article
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Contributors: Cai; X.; Portegies Zwart; S.F.; Kouwenhoven; M.B.N.; Spurzem; R.
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Simulating stellar winds in AMUSE

2019-05-17 | Journal article
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Contributors: Helm; E. van der; Saladino; M.I.; Portegies Zwart; S.F.; Pols; O.
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