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Volker Bromm is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their primary field of research lies within Physics and Astronomy, with a significant emphasis on subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Computational Mechanics.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to cosmic phenomena and astrophysical processes. Key topics include:

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

Bromm's publication record is extensive, with a notable number of papers in several high-profile venues. The most frequent publication sources include:

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

Recent publications by Volker Bromm, alongside their year of publication and the journal in which they appeared, are as follows:

  • CEERS Key Paper. I. An Early Look into the First 500 Myr of Galaxy Formation with JWST, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: A Candidate z ∼ 12 Galaxy in Early JWST CEERS Imaging, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • A CEERS Discovery of an Accreting Supermassive Black Hole 570 Myr after the Big Bang: Identifying a Progenitor of Massive z > 6 Quasars, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • The Complete CEERS Early Universe Galaxy Sample: A Surprisingly Slow Evolution of the Space Density of Bright Galaxies at z ∼ 8.5-14.5, 2024, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Accelerating Early Massive Galaxy Formation with Primordial Black Holes, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volker Bromm collaborates frequently with a select group of researchers. Some of the most frequent co-authors include:

  • Boyuan Liu
  • Steven L. Finkelstein
  • Seiji Fujimoto
  • Rebecca L. Larson
  • Dale D. Kocevski

Best Publications

  • The Formation of the First Stars. I. The Primordial Star-forming Cloud

    Volker Bromm;Volker Bromm;Paolo S. Coppi;Richard B. Larson

  • The formation of a star cluster: predicting the properties of stars and brown dwarfs

    Matthew R. Bate;Matthew R. Bate;Ian A. Bonnell;Volker Bromm;Volker Bromm

  • The First Stars

    Volker Bromm;Richard B. Larson

  • Formation of the First Supermassive Black Holes

    Volker Bromm;Abraham Loeb;Abraham Loeb

  • Forming the First Stars in the Universe: The Fragmentation of Primordial Gas.

    Volker Bromm;Paolo S. Coppi;Richard B. Larson

  • Generic Spectrum and Ionization Efficiency of a Heavy Initial Mass Function for the First Stars

    Volker Bromm;Rolf P. Kudritzki;Abraham Loeb

  • The first stars: formation of binaries and small multiple systems

    Athena Stacy;Thomas H. Greif;Volker Bromm

  • The formation mechanism of brown dwarfs

    Matthew R. Bate;Matthew R. Bate;Ian A. Bonnell;Volker Bromm;Volker Bromm

  • SIMULATIONS ON A MOVING MESH: THE CLUSTERED FORMATION OF POPULATION III PROTOSTARS

    Thomas H. Greif;Volker Springel;Volker Springel;Simon D. M. White;Simon C. O. Glover

  • The formation of the first low-mass stars from gas with low carbon and oxygen abundances.

    Volker Bromm;Abraham Loeb

  • The fragmentation of pre-enriched primordial objects

    Volker Bromm;Volker Bromm;A. Ferrara;P. S. Coppi;R. B. Larson

  • Formation of the first stars.

    Volker Bromm

  • The formation of the first stars and galaxies

    Volker Bromm;Naoki Yoshida;Lars Hernquist;Christopher F. McKee

  • The Formation and Fragmentation of Disks Around Primordial Protostars

    Paul C. Clark;Simon C. O. Glover;Rowan J. Smith;Thomas H. Greif

  • The formation of close binary systems by dynamical interactions and orbital decay

    Matthew R. Bate;Matthew R. Bate;Ian A. Bonnell;Volker Bromm;Volker Bromm

  • Formation and evolution of primordial protostellar systems

    Thomas H. Greif;Volker Bromm;Paul C. Clark;Simon C. O. Glover

  • The First Galaxies: Chemical Enrichment, Mixing, and Star Formation

    Thomas H. Greif;Simon C. O. Glover;Volker Bromm;Ralf S. Klessen;Ralf S. Klessen

  • The Expected Redshift Distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts

    Volker Bromm;Abraham Loeb

  • The First Stars: Mass Growth Under Protostellar Feedback

    Athena Stacy;Thomas H. Greif;Volker Bromm

  • Gravitational fragmentation in turbulent primordial gas and the initial mass function of Population III stars

    Paul C. Clark;Simon C. O. Glover;Ralf S. Klessen;Ralf S. Klessen;Volker Bromm

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralf S. Klessen
Ralf S. Klessen Heidelberg University
Abraham Loeb
Abraham Loeb Harvard University
Simon C. O. Glover
Simon C. O. Glover Heidelberg University
Alexander Heger
Alexander Heger Monash University
Naoki Yoshida
Naoki Yoshida University of Tokyo
Steven R. Furlanetto
Steven R. Furlanetto University of California, Los Angeles
Léon V. E. Koopmans
Léon V. E. Koopmans University of Groningen
Volker Springel
Volker Springel Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Matthew R. Bate
Matthew R. Bate University of Exeter

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