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Pavel Kroupa is affiliated with the University of Bonn in Germany and specializes in Physics and Astronomy. Their research extensively covers the subfields of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics including:

  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae

Kroupa has contributed numerous publications, particularly in the following venues:

  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Universe

Selected recent papers by Pavel Kroupa include:

  • The formation of a bound star cluster: From the Orion nebula cluster to the Pleiades (2024), OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Local-Group tests of dark-matter concordance cosmology: Towards a new paradigm for structure formation (2024), arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Very high redshift quasars and the rapid emergence of super-massive black holes (2020), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Kroupa frequently collaborates with several co-authors in the field, including:

  • Tereza Jeřábková
  • Indranil Banik
  • Zhiqiang Yan
  • Akram Hasani Zonoozi
  • Hosein Haghi

In addition to journal publications, Kroupa has contributed to academic books, including a publication with Cambridge University Press titled Star-Formation Rates of Galaxies (2021).

Best Publications

  • On the variation of the initial mass function

    Pavel Kroupa

  • The Initial Mass Function of Stars: Evidence for Uniformity in Variable Systems

    Pavel Kroupa

  • The distribution of low-mass stars in the Galactic disc

    Pavel Kroupa;Christopher A. Tout;Gerard Gilmore

  • Galactic-Field IMFs of Massive Stars

    Pavel Kroupa;Carsten Weidner

  • A comprehensive set of simulations studying the influence of gas expulsion on star cluster evolution

    Holger Baumgardt;Pavel Kroupa

  • Galactic-Field Initial Mass Functions of Massive Stars

    Pavel Kroupa;Carsten Weidner

  • The Great disk of Milky Way satellites and cosmological sub-structures

    P. Kroupa;C. Theis;C. M. Boily

  • Inverse dynamical population synthesis and star formation

    Pavel Kroupa

  • The Stellar and Sub-Stellar Initial Mass Function of Simple and Composite Populations

    Pavel Kroupa;Carsten Weidner;Jan Pflamm-Altenburg;Ingo Thies

  • The formation of a bound star cluster: from the orion nebula cluster to the pleiades

    Pavel Kroupa;Sverre J. Aarseth;Jarrod R. Hurley

  • The dynamical properties of stellar systems in the Galactic disc

    Pavel Kroupa

  • The maximum stellar mass, star-cluster formation and composite stellar populations

    Carsten Weidner;Pavel Kroupa

  • The VPOS: a vast polar structure of satellite galaxies, globular clusters and streams around the Milky Way

    M. S. Pawlowski;J. Pflamm-Altenburg;P. Kroupa

  • The stellar and sub-stellar IMF of simple and composite populations

    Pavel Kroupa;Carsten Weidner;Jan Pflamm-Altenburg;Ingo Thies

  • Stellar-mass black holes in star clusters: implications for gravitational wave radiation

    Sambaran Banerjee;Holger Baumgardt;Pavel Kroupa

  • On the mass function of star clusters

    P. Kroupa;C. M. Boily

  • Dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies without dark matter

    Pavel Kroupa

  • Evidence for a fundamental stellar upper mass limit from clustered star formation

    Carsten Weidner;Pavel Kroupa

  • The Variation of Integrated Star IMFs among Galaxies

    C. Weidner;P. Kroupa

  • The dark matter crisis: falsification of the current standard model of cosmology

    Pavel Kroupa

Frequent Co-Authors

Holger Baumgardt
Holger Baumgardt University of Queensland
Michael S. Marks
Michael S. Marks Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Helmut Jerjen
Helmut Jerjen Australian National University
Michael Hilker
Michael Hilker European Southern Observatory
Rodrigo A. Ibata
Rodrigo A. Ibata University of Strasbourg
Francesca Matteucci
Francesca Matteucci University of Trieste
Christopher A. Tout
Christopher A. Tout University of Cambridge
Ralf S. Klessen
Ralf S. Klessen Heidelberg University
Kathryn V. Johnston
Kathryn V. Johnston Columbia University
Eva K. Grebel
Eva K. Grebel Heidelberg University

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