Rainer Spurzem

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According to Wikipedia, Rainer Spurzem is a German astronomer at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut in Heidelberg, Germany. His speciality is the N-body simulation of galaxies and star clusters. With Sverre Aarseth, he was the first to simulate core collapse of a star cluster using a direct N-body algorithm on a Cray supercomputer.

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Rainer Spurzem's Published Works

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Efficient Merger of Binary Supermassive Black Holes in Nonaxisymmetric Galaxies (2006) (201)
Dynamics of Star Clusters and the Milky Way (2001) (163)
The dragon simulations: globular cluster evolution with a million stars (2016) (153)
Performance Analysis of Direct N-Body Algorithms on Special-Purpose Supercomputers (2006) (135)
Compact binaries in star clusters – I. Black hole binaries inside globular clusters (2009) (131)
nbody6++gpu: ready for the gravitational million-body problem (2015) (126)
FAST COALESCENCE OF MASSIVE BLACK HOLE BINARIES FROM MERGERS OF GALACTIC NUCLEI: IMPLICATIONS FOR LOW-FREQUENCY GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE ASTROPHYSICS (2011) (118)
DYNAMICS OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS IN STAR CLUSTERS (2006) (115)
Descope of the ALIA mission (2014) (100)
SUPERBOX – an efficient code for collisionless galactic dynamics (2000) (96)
Direct N-body simulations (1999) (95)
Long-Term Evolution of Massive Black Hole Binaries. II. Binary Evolution in Low-Density Galaxies (2005) (85)
Compact binaries in star clusters – II. Escapers and detection rates (2010) (79)
The origin of the first neutron star – neutron star merger (2017) (77)
MERGERS OF UNEQUAL-MASS GALAXIES: SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE BINARY EVOLUTION AND STRUCTURE OF MERGER REMNANTS (2012) (72)
A comprehensive nbody study of mass segregation in star clusters: energy equipartition and escape (2006) (72)
N-Body Growth of a Bahcall-Wolf Cusp around a Black Hole (2004) (68)
BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGER IN GALACTIC NUCLEI: POST-NEWTONIAN SIMULATIONS (2008) (63)
Million-body star cluster simulations: Comparisons between Monte Carlo and direct N-body (2016) (58)
Encounter-triggered Disk Mass Loss in the Orion Nebula Cluster (2006) (57)
Triplets of supermassive black holes: Astrophysics, Gravitational Waves and Detection (2009) (56)
Accretion of stars on to a massive black hole: a realistic diffusion model and numerical studies (2004) (54)
Dynamical evolution of rotating stellar systems – II. Post-collapse, equal-mass system (2001) (54)
The Decay of Accreting Triple Systems as Brown Dwarf Formation Scenario (2005) (54)
A comparison of direct N-body integration with anisotropic gaseous models of star clusters (1993) (53)
The dynamical evolution of multiplanet systems in open clusters (2013) (52)
A scientific case study of an advanced LISA mission (2011) (51)
N‐body models of rotating globular clusters (2007) (50)
Direct collisional simulation of 10000 particles past core collapse (1996) (50)
A stochastic Monte Carlo approach to modelling real star cluster evolution - III. Direct integration of three- and four-body interactions (2003) (49)
Orbital evolution of the Carina dwarf galaxy and self-consistent determination of star formation history (2010) (49)
Anisotropic gaseous models for the evolution of star clusters (1991) (47)
Dynamical friction of massive objects in galactic centres (2010) (47)
A stochastic Monte Carlo approach to model real star cluster evolution - II. Self-consistent models and primordial binaries (1999) (45)
Stability of multiplanetary systems in star clusters (2017) (43)
BSE versus StarTrack: Implementations of new wind, remnant-formation, and natal-kick schemes in NBODY7 and their astrophysical consequences (2019) (42)
On the occurrence of galaxy harassment (2015) (40)
Dynamical evolution of rotating stellar systems: I pre-collapse, equal mass systems (1997) (38)
Comparative study between N-body and Fokker–Planck simulations for rotating star clusters – I. Equal-mass system (2007) (37)
Dynamical evolution of rotating stellar systems – III. The effect of the mass spectrum (2004) (35)
Star–disc interaction in galactic nuclei: orbits and rates of accreted stars (2016) (35)
Collisional Dynamics around Binary Black Holes in Galactic Centers (2001) (35)
A highly efficient measure of mass segregation in star clusters (2011) (33)
Comparison between Fokker-Planck and gaseous models of star clusters in the multi-mass case revisited (1995) (33)
Dynamics of compact object clusters: a post‐Newtonian study (2006) (33)
On the survivability of planets in young massive clusters and its implication of planet orbital architectures in globular clusters (2019) (32)
Binaries of massive black holes in rotating clusters: Dynamics, gravitational waves, detection and the role of eccentricity (2009) (31)
2D Fokker–Planck models of rotating clusters (2006) (30)
Intermediate mass black hole formation in compact young massive star clusters (2020) (29)
Escape from the vicinity of fractal basin boundaries of a star cluster (2007) (29)
THE LINK BETWEEN EJECTED STARS, HARDENING AND ECCENTRICITY GROWTH OF SUPER MASSIVE BLACK HOLES IN GALACTIC NUCLEI (2013) (29)
mocca survey data base– i. Dissolution of tidally filling star clusters harbouring black hole subsystems (2019) (28)
DirectN-body simulation of the Galactic centre (2018) (28)
BOOSTED TIDAL DISRUPTION BY MASSIVE BLACK HOLE BINARIES DURING GALAXY MERGERS FROM THE VIEW OF N-BODY SIMULATION (2015) (28)
INTERACTION OF RECOILING SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES WITH STARS IN GALACTIC NUCLEI (2012) (27)
Comparative study between N-body and Fokker–Planck simulations for rotating star clusters – II. Two-component models (2012) (25)
Accelerating astrophysical particle simulations with programmable hardware (FPGA and GPU) (2009) (23)
A stochastic Monte Carlo approach to modelling of real star cluster evolution — I. The model (1996) (22)
SUPER MASSIVE BLACK HOLE IN GALACTIC NUCLEI WITH TIDAL DISRUPTION OF STARS (2014) (21)
Classification of Tidal Disruption Events Based on Stellar Orbital Properties (2018) (21)
On the dissolution of star clusters in the Galactic Centre - I. Circular orbits (2009) (19)
ENHANCED ACCRETION RATES OF STARS ON SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES BY STAR–DISK INTERACTIONS IN GALACTIC NUCLEI (2012) (19)
Star-disc interaction in galactic nuclei: formation of a central stellar disc (2018) (19)
Astrophysical particle simulations with large custom GPU clusters on three continents (2011) (19)
High performance massively parallel direct N-body simulations on large GPU clusters (2011) (18)
Merging Timescales and Merger Rates of Star Clusters in Dense Star Cluster Complexes (2001) (18)
Dynamical evolution of rotating dense stellar systems with embedded black holes (2008) (18)
Dynamical Simulations: Methods and Comparisons (1997) (17)
The loss-cone problem in dense nuclei (2001) (17)
EXPANSION TECHNIQUES FOR COLLISIONLESS STELLAR DYNAMICAL SIMULATIONS (2014) (17)
Supermassive black holes coalescence mediated by massive perturbers: implications for gravitational waves emission and nuclear cluster formation (2017) (17)
A multi-phase chemo-dynamical SPH code for galaxy evolution. Testing the code (2003) (16)
Parallelization, Special Hardware and Post-Newtonian Dynamics in Direct N - Body Simulations (2008) (15)
Star Clusters and Black Holes in Galaxies across Cosmic Time (2016) (15)
Evolution of growing black holes in axisymmetric galaxy cores (2011) (14)
Isolated dwarf galaxies: from cuspy to flat dark matter density profiles and metalicity gradients (2010) (14)
AHA-GRAPE: Adaptive Hydrodynamic Architecture - GRAvity PipE (1999) (14)
Galactic and Stellar Dynamics (2003) (14)
The dynamical origin of multiple populations in intermediate-age clusters in the Magellanic Clouds (2017) (14)
BLOCK TIME STEP STORAGE SCHEME FOR ASTROPHYSICAL N-BODY SIMULATIONS (2015) (13)
DYNAMICS OF STAR CLUSTERS AND DENSE NUCLEI (2001) (12)
Planetary systems in a star cluster I: the Solar system scenario (2019) (12)
Computational Steering and Online Visualization of Scientific Applications on Large-Scale HPC Systems within e-Science Infrastructures (2007) (11)
Relativistic mergers of compact binaries in clusters: the fingerprint of the spin (2013) (11)
Up to 700k GPU Cores, Kepler, and the Exascale Future for Simulations of Star Clusters Around Black Holes (2013) (11)
DYNAMICAL EVOLUTION OF ROTATING SINGLE-MASS STELLAR CLUSTER (2005) (11)
Extending the collaborative online visualization and steering framework for computational Grids with attribute-based authorization (2008) (10)
Anisotropic gaseous models of tidally limited star clusters: comparison with other methods (2004) (10)
Direct Simulation of Dense Stellar Systems with GRAPE-6 (2000) (10)
Physical Processes in Star–Gas Systems (2003) (10)
Gravothermal instability of anisotropic self-gravitating gas spheres : singular equilibrium solution (1991) (9)
DISKS AROUND BROWN DWARFS IN THE EJECTION SCENARIO. I. DISK COLLISIONS IN TRIPLE SYSTEMS (2011) (9)
Dynamical evolution of massive black holes in galactic-scale N-body simulations – introducing the regularized tree code ‘rvine’ (2015) (9)
Breaching the Limit: Formation of GW190521-like and IMBH Mergers in Young Massive Clusters (2021) (9)
Evolution of Stars and Gas in Galactic Nuclei (1992) (8)
On the survival of resonant and non-resonant planetary systems in star clusters (2020) (8)
Higher-order moment models of dense stellar systems: applications to the modelling of the stellar velocity distribution function (2010) (8)
From Newton to Einstein ? N-body dynamics in galactic nuclei and SPH using new special hardware and astrogrid-D (2007) (8)
Post-Newtonian simulations of super-massive black hole binaries in galactic nuclei (2008) (7)
Hybrid methods in planetesimal dynamics: description of a new composite algorithm (2011) (6)
SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES IN GALACTIC NUCLEI WITH TIDAL DISRUPTION OF STARS. II. AXISYMMETRIC NUCLEI (2015) (6)
Collisional Stellar Dynamics, Gas Dynamics and Special Purpose Computing (2002) (5)
Astrophysical Particle Simulations with Custom GPU Clusters (2010) (5)
Anisotropy in stellar dynamics (1986) (5)
Planetary systems in star clusters (2014) (5)
Interactions between stars and gas in galactic nuclei (1990) (5)
Performance analysis of parallel gravitational N-body codes on large GPU clusters (2015) (5)
Towards the million body problem on the computer - no news since the three-body problem? (1999) (5)
Merger of massive black holes using N-body simulations with post-Newtonian corrections (2008) (5)
Black hole mergers in compact star clusters and massive black hole formation beyond the mass-gap (2021) (5)
Direct N-body Simulations of Tidal Disruption Rate Evolution in Unequal-mass Galaxy Mergers (2019) (5)
Satellite Survival in Cold Dark Matter Cosmology (2004) (5)
Linking the formation and fate of exo-Kuiper belts within Solar system analogues (2020) (5)
A study of stellar population of intermediate-age globular cluster NGC 2249 (2020) (5)
AstroGrid-D: Grid Technology for Astronomical Science (2010) (4)
Super-massive stars: Dense star-gas systems (2001) (4)
Supermassive black holes coalescence mediated by massive perturbers: gravitational waves emission and the Milky Way - Andromeda fate (2017) (4)
Preparing the next gravitational million-body simulations: Evolution of single and binary stars in Nbody6++GPU, MOCCA and McLuster (2021) (4)
Mass-loss from massive globular clusters in tidal fields (2020) (4)
Planetary Systems in Star Clusters: the dynamical evolution and survival (2018) (3)
Galactic and stellar dynamics in the era of high resolution surveys (2008) (3)
Stellar Orbits at the Center of the Milky Way (2003) (3)
Chemodynamical Modelling of Galaxy Formation and Evolution (2001) (3)
GalevNB: a conversion from N-body simulations to observations (2015) (3)
Single star scattering on an open cluster (2007) (3)
Special, hardware accelerated, parallel SPH code for galaxy evolution. (2007) (3)
Fluid Techniques and Evolution of Anisotropy (1996) (2)
Comparison between observed and simulated globular clusters (2007) (2)
Interaction of stars hosting planets with Sgr A* black hole (2019) (2)
Collisional Dynamics of Black Holes, Star Clusters and Galactic Nuclei (2003) (2)
Revisit the Rate of Tidal Disruption Events: The Role of the Partial Tidal Disruption Event (2022) (2)
Binary Black Holes in Galactic Centres (2001) (2)
Model calculations for star clusters with massive central object. (1988) (2)
Birth cluster simulations of planetary systems with multiple super-Earths: initial conditions for white dwarf pollution drivers (2022) (2)
A comprehensive Nbody study of mass segregation in star clusters : Energy equipartition and ejection (2006) (2)
Planetary systems in a star cluster II: intermediate-mass black holes and planetary systems (2020) (1)
A Parallel Implementation of an Aarseth N-body Integrator on the Cray T3d (1)
NBODY meets stellar population synthesis. (2005) (1)
Bound mass of Dehnen models with a centrally peaked star formation efficiency (2021) (1)
Astrophysical N-Body Simulations: Algorithms and Challenges (1997) (1)
Hybrid methods in planetesimal dynamics: formation of protoplanetary systems and the mill condition (2013) (1)
Dense gas-star systems: Super-massive stars evolution (2002) (1)
Double Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei – Do they Merge or not? (2001) (1)
Fokker-Planck Models for Rotating Stellar Systems (1996) (1)
AHA-GRAPE - flexible hardware for stellar dynamics (1999) (1)
Astrophysical SPH Simulations with raceSPH Library (2011) (1)
The impact of stellar evolution on rotating star clusters: the gravothermal-gravogyro catastrophe and the formation of a bar of black holes (2022) (1)
Multi-Mass gaseous models of globular clusters with stellar evolution (2001) (1)
Stability of planetary systems within the S-star cluster: the Solar system analogues (2022) (1)
An FPGA-based hardware coprocessor for SPH computations. (2007) (1)
Chemodynamical Modeling of Dwarf Galaxy Evolution (2002) (0)
Dynamical modelling of debris disks (2007) (0)
An overview (introductory notes on dense stellar systems) (2003) (0)
Acceleration of hybrid MPI parallel NBODY6++ for large N-body globular cluster simulations (2014) (0)
Stellar evolution and dynamics of globular clusters (1996) (0)
NBODY meets stellar population - The HYDE-PARC Project (2007) (0)
Fractions of Compact Object Binaries in Star Clusters: Theoretical Predictions (2022) (0)
Interaction of the Compact Stellar Cluster with an Accretion Disk in AGNs (2004) (0)
Radio evidence for binary super massive black holes (2016) (0)
Fokker-Planck models of Rotating clusters (2006) (0)
Multi-Grid Job Scheduling (2012) (0)
How to build and use special purpose PC clusters in stellar dynamics (2006) (0)
Dynamics of Black Holes in Rotating Cores (2009) (0)
Commission 37: Star Clusters (2005) (0)
Evolution of massive black hole binaries in rotating king models. (2004) (0)
Rotation and Relaxation in Dense Star Clusters and Galactic Nuclei (2000) (0)
A study comparing models of star clusters with tidal boundary (1997) (0)
Post Core Collapse Evolution of Rotating Stellar Systems (2000) (0)
01 10 03 0 v 2 1 5 O ct 2 00 1 Supermassive stars : Dense star-gas systems (2001) (0)
Disentangling AGN and starburst activities in NGC 6240 from an X-ray perspective (2016) (0)
Spikes in Gravitational Wave Radiation from Quickly Rotating Galactic Centers (2011) (0)
Gas in the Central Regions of AGN: The Interstellar Medium and Supermassive Gaseous Objects (2001) (0)
Fast co ales cence of post-New to nian Supermassive Black Hole (2017) (0)
Chemo-dynamical evolution of dwarf galaxies: from flat to cuspy dark matter density profiles (2009) (0)
Effect of Gas Accretion Disc Profile on Orbital Parameters of the Accreted Stars (2016) (0)
Brown dwarfs from decaying accreting triple systems (2004) (0)
Non-Keplerian Potential at the Galactic Centre? (2005) (0)
Approximate Dense Star Cluster Modelling (2006) (0)
Dynamical evolution of rotating globular clusters with embedded black holes (2006) (0)
Monte Carlo Simulations of Dense Galactic Nuclei. (2001) (0)
ON OF A N I S O T R O PY (2015) (0)
J un 2 00 8 Dynamics of Planetary Systems in Star Clusters (2009) (0)
Gaseous models of globular clusters with stellar evolution (2000) (0)
Angular Momentum Transport in Clusters of Stars (1999) (0)
Division VII: Galactic System (2005) (0)
Up to 700 k GPU Cores , Kepler , and the Exascale Future for Simulations of Star Clusters Around Black Holes (0)
Dense Gas-Star Systems: Evolution of Supermassive Stars (2004) (0)
The effect of gaseous accretion disk on dynamics of the stellar cluster in AGN (2016) (0)
Resonant motions of supermassive black hole triples (2014) (0)
Formation and evolution of galactic nuclei, black holes (2003) (0)
Observing Stellar Clusters in the Computer (2006) (0)
Planetesimal Formation in Zonal Flows (2013) (0)
POPULATION OF DOUBLE WHITE DWARFS IN THE GALACTIC CENTER (2020) (0)
Formation and Evolution of Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei and Star Clusters (2007) (0)
2 2 O ct 2 01 4 Descope of the ALIA mission (2015) (0)
Some characteristic timescales in a numerical model of the central parts of active galactic nuclei (2005) (0)
Tracing the Evolution of SMBHs and Stellar Objects in Galaxy Mergers: A Multi-mass Direct N-body Model (2023) (0)
Super-massive stars: Radiative transfer (2003) (0)
Relaxation Processes and Black Holes in Star Clusters and Galactic Nuclei (2004) (0)
Tidal Disruptions from Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in Merging Galaxies Before & After the Coalescence (2013) (0)
Dissipative N-body & gasodynamical model of the triaxial protogalaxy collapse (2014) (0)
Star close to the massive black hole at center of the Milky Way (2003) (0)
Searching for IMBHs in Galactic globular clusters through radial velocities of individual stars (2016) (0)
Merging of spinning binary black holes in globular clusters (2020) (0)
Merging of unequal mass binary black holes in non-axisymmetric galactic nuclei (2014) (0)
Commission 37: Star Clusters and Associations: ( Amas Stellaires et Associations ) (2000) (0)
The mechanics of dark matter halo formation (2003) (0)
Evolution of clumpy gas in galaxies (1989) (0)
Exploring the origin of stars on bound and unbound orbits causing tidal disruption events (2020) (0)
Direct Star Collisions in Active Galactic Nuclei (2007) (0)
Computer Simulation of the Evolution of Active Agn: Single Supermassive Star Versus a Cluster of Massive WR Stars (1991) (0)
Chemodynamics of the Galaxies: From Cuspy to Dark Matter Density Profiles and Metallicity Gradients (2011) (0)
The secular evolution of the Milky Way nuclear star cluster (2022) (0)
Dynamics of compact objects: A post-Newtonian study (2006) (0)
Special, hardware accelerated, multi-phase chemodynamical SPH code for galaxy evolution (2006) (0)
SUPERBOX: Particle-multi-mesh code to simulate galaxies (2015) (0)
Fokker-Planck rotating models of globular clusters with black hole. (2005) (0)
Merging timescale for the supermassive black hole binary in interacting galaxy NGC 6240 (2021) (0)
Performance analysis of parallel gravitational N-body codes on large GPU cluster (2018) (0)
The Long-term Evolution of Main-sequence Binaries in DRAGON Simulations (2020) (0)
Realistic models of Globular Clusters with white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes using GPU supercomputer (2019) (0)
Gas in the central region of AGNs: ISM and supermassive gaseous objects (2001) (0)
A Post-Newtonian Treatment of Relativistic Compact Object Binaries in Star Clusters (2007) (0)
Planets in Star Clusters (2004) (0)
Tidal disruption as a probe for supermassive black hole binaries (2014) (0)
Distributed File Management in AstroGrid-D (2008) (0)
COMMISSION 37: STAR CLUSTERS AND ASSOCIATIONS (2007) (0)
Large scale direct galaxy collision simulations with central supermassive binary black holes (2014) (0)
From Newton to Einstein - Dynamics of N-body systems (2005) (0)
List of Contributors (1996) (0)
Fast coalescence of post-Newtonian Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in real galaxies (2017) (0)
Galactic Star Cluster mass evolution. High performance star by star simulations. Observations vs. modeling. (2015) (0)
MOCCA-SURVEY Database I: Dissolution of tidally filling star clusters harboring black hole subsystem (2019) (0)
Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei (2006) (0)
D ec 2 00 6 Dynamics of Planetary Systems in Star Clusters (2009) (0)
Supermassive Stars in Galactic Nuclei (1987) (0)
Collisional Dynamics of Binary Black Holes in Galactic Centres (2003) (0)
Star accretion onto supermassive black holes in axisymmetric galactic nuclei (2014) (0)
Collisional Dynamics of Black Holes and Star Clusters Using Massively Parallel Computing (2001) (0)
Dynamics in Young Star Clusters: From Planets to Massive Stars (2011) (0)
3 2 3 D ec 2 00 8 Dynamics of Planetary Systems in Star Clusters (2009) (0)
Galaxies and Star Clusters - From the Computer to the Real World (2005) (0)
A new chemo-dynamical code and application to dwarf galaxies (2022) (0)
``Exact''-N-body simulations for star clusters and galaxies, GRAPE, and future plans (1998) (0)
Rapid mass segregation in young star clusters without substructure? (2010) (0)
GalevNB: from simulations to observations (2015) (0)
Anisotropy and self-similar evolution of star clusters (1986) (0)
The interplay of rotation and relaxation in star clusters and galactic nuclei (2003) (0)
The Dynamical Evolution of A Clumpy Medium (1989) (0)
Tidally limited star clusters -- comparing gaseous models with other techniques (2004) (0)
A hybrid Monte Carlo tool to simulate dense stellar systems (2005) (0)
15 Parallelization , Special Hardware and Post-Newtonian Dynamics in Direct N-Body Simulations (2008) (0)
How to detect supermassive binary black holes at parsec scales (2016) (0)
Star Cluster Simulations Including Stellar Evolution (2002) (0)
DIVISION VII: GALACTIC SYSTEM (2007) (0)
GalevNB: GALEV for N-body simulations (2014) (0)
On Gravothermal Instability of Anisotropic Self-Gravitating Gas Spheres: Singular Equilibrium Solution (1993) (0)
Why are Stellar Systems Anisotropic (1985) (0)
GPU Supercomputing on Three Continents & Application to Supermassive Black Holes & Gravitational Waves from Galactic Nuclei (2013) (0)

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