Rainer Spurzem

Preprints and Papers for Refereed Journals only

Up to Date Publication List by ADS (Strasbourg Site)
  • E. Khalisi, P. Amaro-Seoane, R. Spurzem
    A comprehensive Nbody study of mass segregation in star clusters: Energy equipartition and escape
    MNRAS 2006, in press, astro-ph/0602570

  • J. Fiestas, R. Spurzem, E. Kim
    2D Fokker-Planck models of rotating clusters
    MNRAS 2006, in press, astro-ph/0609056

  • Stefan Harfst, Alessia Gualandris, David Merritt, Rainer Spurzem, Simon Portegies Zwart, Peter Berczik
    Performance Analysis of Direct N-Body Algorithms on Special-Purpose Supercomputers
    New Astronomy 2006, subm. astro-ph/0608125

  • Gabor Kupi, Pau Amaro-Seoane, Rainer Spurzem
    Dynamics of compact objects: A post-Newtonian study
    MNRAS 2006, 371, L45

  • Peter Berczik, David Merritt, Rainer Spurzem, Hans-Peter Bischof
    Efficient Merger of Binary Supermassive Black Holes in Non-Axisymmetric Galaxies
    Astroph. Jl. 2006, 642, L21

  • C. Olczak, S.Pfalzner, R.Spurzem
    Encounter-Triggered Disc Mass Loss in the ONC
    Astroph. Jl. 2006, 642, 1140

  • Peter Berczik, David Merritt, Rainer Spurzem
    Long-Term Evolution of Massive Black Hole Binaries. II. Binary Evolution in Low-Density Galaxies
    Astroph. Jl. 2005, 633, 680

  • Rainer Spurzem, Mirek Giersz, Koji Takahashi, Andreas Ernst
    Tidally limited star clusters -- comparing gaseous models with other techniques.
    MNRAS 2005, 364, 948

  • Umbreit, Stefan; Burkert, Andreas; Henning, Thomas; Mikkola, Seppo; Spurzem, Rainer
    The Decay of Accreting Triple Systems as Brown Dwarf Formation Scenario
    Astroph. Jl. 2005, 623, 940

  • Mouawad, N.; Eckart, A.; Pfalzner, S.; Schödel, R.; Moultaka, J.; Spurzem, R.
    Weighing the cusp at the Galactic Centre
    Astronomische Nachrichten 2005, 326, 83

  • Miguel Preto, David Merritt, Rainer Spurzem
    N-Body Growth of a Bahcall-Wolf Cusp around a Black Hole.
    Astroph. Jl. Lett. 2004, 613, 109

  • Christian M. Boily, Naohito Nakasato, Rainer Spurzem, Toshio Tsuchiya
    Satellite Survival in Cold Dark Matter Cosmology.
    Astroph. Jl. 2004, 614, 26

  • Pau Amaro-Seoane, Marc Freitag, Rainer Spurzem
    Accretion of stars on to a massive black hole: a realistic diffusion model and numerical studies.
    Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc., 2004, 352, 655

  • Eunhyeuk Kim, Hyung Mok Lee, Rainer Spurzem
    Dynamical Evolution of Rotating Stellar Systems: III. The Effect of Mass Spectrum.
    Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc., 2004, 351, 220

  • N. Mouawad, A. Eckart, S. Pfalzner, R. Schoedel, J. Moultaka, R. Spurzem
    Weighing the cusp at the Galactic Centre.
    Subm. to Astron. Astroph., 2004

  • R. Spurzem, P. Berczik, G. Hensler, Ch. Theis, P. Amaro-Seoane, M. Freitag, A. Just
    Physical Processes in Star-Gas Systems.
    Publ. Astron. Soc. Australia, 2004, 21, 188.

  • M. Giersz, R. Spurzem
    A stochastic Monte Carlo approach to model real star cluster evolution, III. Direct integrations of three- and four-body interactions.
    2003, Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc., 343, 781.

  • R. Spurzem, J. Makino, T. Fukushige, G. Lienhart, A. Kugel, R. Maenner, M. Wetzstein, A. Burkert, T. Naab
    Collisional Stellar Dynamics, Gas Dynamics and Special Purpose Computing.
    Proceedings of International Symposium on Computational Science and Engineering 2002 (ISCSE'02), ed. A. Ukawa, published by JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science).

  • P. Berczik, G. Hensler, Ch. Theis, R. Spurzem
    Chemodynamical Modelling of Galaxy Formation and Evolution
    2002, Astroph. Sp. Science. 281, 297.

  • M. Fellhauer, H. Baumgardt, P. Kroupa, R. Spurzem
    Merging Timescales and Merger Rates of Star Clusters in Dense Star Cluster Complexes
    2002, Cel. Mech. Dyn. Astron., 82, 113.

  • E. Kim, C. Einsel, H.M. Lee, R. Spurzem, M.G. Lee
    Dynamical evolution of rotating stellar systems - II. Post-collapse, equal mass system
    2002, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 334, 310.

  • M. Hemsendorf, S. Sigurdsson, R. Spurzem
    Collisional dynamics around binary black holes in galactic centers
    Astroph. Jl., 2002, 581, 1256

  • P. Amaro-Seoane, R. Spurzem
    The loss-cone problem in dense nuclei
    2001, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 327, 995, astro-ph/0105251.

  • M. Giersz, R. Spurzem
    A stochastic Monte Carlo approach to model real star cluster evolution, II. Self-consistent models and primordial binaries (1.5 Mb ps.gz)
    2000, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 317, 581. With movies 1 (20 MB mpg) 2 (13 MB mpg)

  • Fellhauer M., Kroupa P., Baumgardt H., Bien R., Boily C.M., Spurzem R., Wassmer N.
    SUPERBOX -- An Efficient Code for the Self-Consistent Computation of the Dynamics of Collision-less Stellar Systems (362 kb ps.gz)
    2000, New Astronomy, 5, 305.

  • Kuberka T., Kugel A., Männer R., Singpiel H., Spurzem R., Klessen R.
    AHA-GRAPE: Adaptive Hydrodynamic Architecture - GRAvity PipE (90 kb ps.gz)
    in Field Programmable Logics and Applications, eds. P. Lysaght, J. Irvine, R. Hartenstein, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1673, Springer-Verlag, 1999, p. 417.

  • R. Spurzem
    Direct N-body Simulations (276 kb ps.gz)
    in preparation for Riffert H., Werner K. (eds), Computational Astrophysics, The Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (JCAM) 109, Elsevier Press, Amsterdam, 1999, pp. 407-432

  • R. Spurzem, H. Baumgardt
    A parallel implementation of an Aarseth N-body integrator on general and special purpose supercomputers (176 kb ps.gz)
    in preparation, revised version for MNRAS 1999

  • Ch. Theis, R. Spurzem
    On the evolution of shape in N-body simulations (230 kb ps.gz)
    Astron. Astroph. 341, p. 361, 1999

  • C. Einsel, R. Spurzem
    Dynamical evolution of rotating stellar systems: I. Pre-collapse, equal mass systems (304kb ps.gz)
    Mon. Notices Royal astron. Soc. 302, p. 81, 1999

  • R. Spurzem
    Astrophysical N-body simulations: algorithms and challenges (54 kb ps.gz)
    to appear in Proc. Int. Symp. on Supercomputing - New Horizon of Comp. Science, Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 1997, ed T. Ebisuzaki, Kluwer, Dordrecht.

  • D.C. Heggie, M. Giersz, R. Spurzem, K. Takahashi
    Dynamical simulations: methods and comparisons (105 kb ps.gz)
    to appear in Highlights of Astronomy Vol. 11 ed. Johannes Andersen, Kluwer, Dordrecht.

  • R. Spurzem
    Fluid techniques and evolution of anisotropy (404 kb ps.gz)
    in ``Dynamical Evolution of Star Clusters'', IAU Symp. No. 174, eds. P. Hut & J. Makino, Kluwer, Dordrecht, p. 111

  • R. Spurzem, S. J. Aarseth
    Direct collisional simulation of 10000 particles past core collapse (1.17 Mb ps.gz)
    Mon. Notices Royal astron. Soc. 282, p. 19, 1996

  • R. Spurzem, M. Giersz
    A stochastic Monte-Carlo aproach to model real star cluster evolution (658kb ps.gz)
    Mon. Notices Royal astron. Soc. 283, p. 805, 1996

  • R. Spurzem, R. Kunze, H.W. Yorke
    The Evolution of Supernova Remnants into a multi-phase multi-component medium (377kb ps.gz)
    subm. to Astronomy and Astrophysics

  • Hensler, G., Spurzem R., Burkert, A., Trassl, E.
    On the isotropy assumption and the applicability of the gasdynamical equs. in collapsing systems (50 kb ps.gz)
    Astronomy and Astrophysics 303, p. 299, 1995

  • R. Spurzem, K. Takahashi
    Comparison between Fokker-Planck and gaseous models of star clusters in the multi-mass case revisited (579 kb ps.gz)
    Mon. Notices Royal astron. Soc. 272, p. 772, 1995

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