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P. T. de Zeeuw is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands and has a research focus primarily in physics and astronomy. Their published research spans multiple subfields including astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, atomic and molecular physics, optics, nuclear and high energy physics, and computational mechanics.

The scientist's academic contributions cover a range of topics such as stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, astrophysical phenomena and observations, galaxies' formation, evolution, and phenomena, astronomy and astrophysical research, astrophysics and star formation studies, adaptive optics and wavefront sensing, and pulsars and gravitational waves research.

Their recent major publications include:

  • Detection of the Schwarzschild precession in the orbit of the star S2 near the Galactic centre massive black hole (2020, Springer Link - Chiba Institute of Technology)
  • Mass distribution in the Galactic Center based on interferometric astrometry of multiple stellar orbits (2021, Astronomy and Astrophysics)
  • Retrieving scattering clouds and disequilibrium chemistry in the atmosphere of HR 8799e (2020, Springer Link - Chiba Institute of Technology)
  • Improved GRAVITY astrometric accuracy from modeling optical aberrations (2021, Springer Link - Chiba Institute of Technology)
  • Ionized outflows in local luminous AGN: what are the real densities and outflow rates? (2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)

Frequent co-authors of P. T. de Zeeuw include:

  • S. Lacour
  • P. García
  • G. Perrin
  • R. Genzel
  • P. Kervella

The scientist publishes regularly in several venues, with the most common being:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology)
  • Kölner Universitäts PublikationsServer (Universität zu Köln)

Best Publications

  • The Gaia mission

    T. Prusti;J. H. J. de Bruijne;A. G. A. Brown

  • GAIA: Composition, formation and evolution of the Galaxy

    M. A. C. Perryman;K. S. de Boer;G. Gilmore;E. Høg

  • The SAURON project - IV. The mass-to-light ratio, the virial mass estimator and the Fundamental Plane of elliptical and lenticular galaxies

    M Cappellari;R Bacon;M Bureau;MC Damen

  • The ATLAS3D project – I. A volume-limited sample of 260 nearby early-type galaxies: science goals and selection criteria

    Michele Cappellari;Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Davor Krajnović;Richard M. Mcdermid

  • The ATLAS3D project – XX. Mass–size and mass–σ distributions of early-type galaxies: bulge fraction drives kinematics, mass-to-light ratio, molecular gas fraction and stellar initial mass function

    Michele Cappellari;Richard M. McDermid;Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz

  • The ATLAS3D project – III. A census of the stellar angular momentum within the effective radius of early‐type galaxies: unveiling the distribution of fast and slow rotators

    Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Michele Cappellari;Davor Krajnović;Katherine Alatalo

  • The SAURON project – I. The panoramic integral-field spectrograph

    Roland Bacon;Yannick Copin;G. Monnet;Bryan W. Miller

  • The SAURON project -- X. The orbital anisotropy of elliptical and lenticular galaxies: revisiting the (V/sigma,epsilon) diagram with integral-field stellar kinematics

    M. Cappellari;E. Emsellem;R. Bacon;M. Bureau

  • Systematic variation of the stellar initial mass function in early-type galaxies

    Michele Cappellari;Richard M. McDermid;Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz

  • The ATLAS3D project XV: benchmark for early-type galaxies scaling relations from 260 dynamical models: mass-to-light ratio, dark matter, fundamental plane and mass plane

    Michele Cappellari;Nicholas Scott;Nicholas Scott;Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz

  • The SAURON project — II. Sample and early results

    P. Tim de Zeeuw;M. Bureau;Eric Emsellem;R. Bacon

  • Detection of the gravitational redshift in the orbit of the star S2 near the Galactic centre massive black hole.

    R. Abuter;A. Amorim;N. Anugu

  • The SAURON project – X. The orbital anisotropy of elliptical and lenticular galaxies: revisiting the (V/σ, ɛ) diagram with integral‐field stellar kinematics

    Michele Cappellari;Michele Cappellari;Eric Emsellem;R. Bacon;M. Bureau

  • The SAURON project - III. Integral-field absorption-line kinematics of 48 elliptical and lenticular galaxies

    M. Sarzi;J. Falcon-Barroso;R. L. Davies;R. Bacon

  • The Atlas3D project -- XIII. Mass and morphology of HI in early-type galaxies as a function of environment

    Paolo Serra;Tom Oosterloo;Raffaella Morganti;Katherine Alatalo

  • The ATLAS3D project - II. Morphologies, kinemetric features and alignment between photometric and kinematic axes of early-type galaxies

    Davor Krajnović;Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Michele Cappellari;Katherine Alatalo

  • A geometric distance measurement to the Galactic Center black hole with 0.3% uncertainty

    R. Abuter;A. Amorim;M. Bauboeck;J.P. Berger

  • The ATLAS3D project - VII. A new look at the morphology of nearby galaxies: the kinematic morphology-density relation

    Michele Cappellari;Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Davor Krajnović;Richard M. McDermid

  • The ordered nature of elliptical galaxies - Implications for their intrinsic angular momenta and shapes

    M. Franx;G. Illingworth;P.T. de Zeeuw

  • A geometric distance measurement to the Galactic center black hole with 0.3% uncertainty

    R. Abuter;A. Amorim;M. Bauböck

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard M. McDermid
Richard M. McDermid Macquarie University
Michele Cappellari
Michele Cappellari University of Oxford
Martin Bureau
Martin Bureau University of Oxford
Roger L. Davies
Roger L. Davies University of Oxford
Raffaella Morganti
Raffaella Morganti Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
Marc Sarzi
Marc Sarzi Armagh Observatory
Harald Kuntschner
Harald Kuntschner European Southern Observatory
Sadegh Khochfar
Sadegh Khochfar University of Edinburgh
Tom Oosterloo
Tom Oosterloo Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
Leo Blitz
Leo Blitz University of California, Berkeley

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