Andrew Pontzen

19.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
101 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Andrew Pontzen is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew Pontzen has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 42 papers in Instrumentation and 22 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Andrew Pontzen's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (83 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (42 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (32 papers). Andrew Pontzen is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (83 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (42 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (32 papers). Andrew Pontzen collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and United States. Andrew Pontzen's co-authors include Fabio Governato, Hiranya V. Peiris, Justin I. Read, Thomas Quinn, Romain Teyssier, Michael Tremmel, Yohan Dubois, James Wadsley, Marta Volonteri and Martin P. Rey and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Andrew Pontzen

98 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Cusp-core transformations in dwarf galaxies: observational predictions

2013 313 citations Andrew Pontzen, Justin I. Read et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The Romulus cosmological simulations: a physical approach to the formation, dynamics and accretion models of SMBHs

2017 232 citations Andrew Pontzen et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers

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Rupert A. C. Croft United States

Adrianne Slyz United Kingdom

Joel R. Brownstein United States

Arif Babul Canada

Simeon Bird United States

Shea Garrison-Kimmel United States

Aaron D. Ludlow United Kingdom

Francisco Prada Spain

Ewald Puchwein Germany

Nikhil Padmanabhan United States

Rupert A. C. Croft United States

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217 ×0.8

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110 ×0.6

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Countries citing papers authored by Andrew Pontzen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Andrew Pontzen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrew Pontzen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Andrew Pontzen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Andrew Pontzen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Andrew Pontzen. Andrew Pontzen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jenkins, A. C., Hiranya V. Peiris, & Andrew Pontzen. (2025). Bubbles in a box: Eliminating edge nucleation in cold-atom simulators of vacuum decay. Physical review. A. 112(2).

Joshi, Gandhali D, Andrew Pontzen, Oscar Agertz, et al.. (2025). The PARADIGM project – I. How early merger histories shape the present-day sizes of Milky-Way-mass galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 537(4). 3792–3813.

Peiris, Hiranya V., Andrew Pontzen, Joop Schaye, et al.. (2025). Cosmological feedback from a halo assembly perspective. Physical review. D. 112(6). 4 indexed citations

Read, Justin I., Matthew D A Orkney, Stacy Y. Kim, et al.. (2025). The emergence of globular clusters and globular-cluster-like dwarfs. Nature. 645(8080). 327–331.

Rey, Martin P., Stacy Y. Kim, Eric P. Andersson, et al.. (2025). edge: the emergence of dwarf galaxy scaling relations from cosmological radiation-hydrodynamics simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 541(2). 1195–1217. 7 indexed citations

Peiris, Hiranya V., et al.. (2024). Explaining Dark Matter Halo Density Profiles with Neural Networks. Physical Review Letters. 132(3). 31001–31001. 8 indexed citations

Jenkins, A. C., Ian G. Moss, T. P. Billam, et al.. (2024). Generalized cold-atom simulators for vacuum decay. Physical review. A. 110(3). 5 indexed citations

Peiris, Hiranya V., et al.. (2024). Deep learning insights into cosmological structure formation. Physical review. D. 109(6). 5 indexed citations

Sanders, Jason L., et al.. (2024). Action and energy clustering of stellar streams in deforming Milky Way dark matter haloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 532(2). 2657–2673. 9 indexed citations

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Cadiou, Corentin, et al.. (2024). Hot gas accretion fuels star formation faster than cold accretion in high-redshift galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 534(1). 918–929. 1 indexed citations

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Pontzen, Andrew, et al.. (2024). edge: dark matter core creation depends on the timing of star formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 536(1). 314–323. 8 indexed citations

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Pontzen, Andrew, et al.. (2023). From particles to orbits: precise dark matter density profiles using dynamical information. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(3). 9250–9262. 2 indexed citations

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Rey, Martin P., Eric P. Andersson, Oscar Agertz, et al.. (2022). EDGE: The sensitivity of ultra-faint dwarfs to a metallicity-dependent initial mass function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 513(2). 2326–2334. 18 indexed citations

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Orkney, Matthew D A, Justin I. Read, Oscar Agertz, et al.. (2022). EDGE: the puzzling ellipticity of Eridanus II’s star cluster and its implications for dark matter at the heart of an ultra-faint dwarf. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 515(1). 185–200. 10 indexed citations

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Peiris, Hiranya V., et al.. (2022). Discovering the building blocks of dark matter halo density profiles with neural networks. ePubs (Science and Technology Facilities Council, Research Councils UK). 14 indexed citations

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Rey, Martin P., Andrew Pontzen, Oscar Agertz, et al.. (2022). EDGE: What shapes the relationship between H i and stellar observables in faint dwarf galaxies?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 511(4). 5672–5681. 22 indexed citations

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Orkney, Matthew D A, Justin I. Read, Martin P. Rey, et al.. (2021). EDGE: two routes to dark matter core formation in ultra-faint dwarfs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 504(3). 3509–3522. 43 indexed citations

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Rey, Martin P., Andrew Pontzen, Oscar Agertz, et al.. (2020). EDGE: from quiescent to gas-rich to star-forming low-mass dwarf galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 497(2). 1508–1520. 53 indexed citations

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Rey, Martin P., Andrew Pontzen, Oscar Agertz, et al.. (2019). EDGE: The Origin of Scatter in Ultra-faint Dwarf Stellar Masses and Surface Brightnesses. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 886(1). L3–L3. 51 indexed citations

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Pontzen, Andrew, Rok Roškar, G. S. Stinson, & Rory M. Woods. (2013). pynbody: N-Body/SPH analysis for python. Astrophysics Source Code Library. 84 indexed citations

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