Volker Springel

95.7k total citations · 51 hit papers
502 papers, 66.8k citations indexed

About

Volker Springel is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Volker Springel has authored 502 papers receiving a total of 66.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 478 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 202 papers in Instrumentation and 105 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Volker Springel's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (429 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (202 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (157 papers). Volker Springel is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (429 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (202 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (157 papers). Volker Springel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Volker Springel's co-authors include Lars Hernquist, Mark Vogelsberger, Rüdiger Pakmor, Shy Genel, Paul Torrey, Tiziana Di Matteo, Dylan Nelson, Simon D. M. White, Federico Marinacci and Annalisa Pillepich and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Volker Springel

490 papers receiving 63.6k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. Simulations of the formation, evolution and clustering of galaxies and quasars
    2005 2.9k citations Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White et al. profile →
  2. Energy input from quasars regulates the growth and activity of black holes and their host galaxies
    2005 2.0k citations Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist et al. profile →
  3. E pur si muove:Galilean-invariant cosmological hydrodynamical simulations on a moving mesh
    2009 1.7k citations Volker Springel Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  4. Introducing the Illustris Project: simulating the coevolution of dark and visible matter in the Universe
    2014 1.6k citations Mark Vogelsberger, Shy Genel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  5. Cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations: a hybrid multiphase model for star formation
    2003 1.6k citations Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  6. Modelling feedback from stars and black holes in galaxy mergers
    2005 1.5k citations Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  7. Simulating galaxy formation with the IllustrisTNG model
    2017 1.4k citations Annalisa Pillepich, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  8. The many lives of active galactic nuclei: Cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies
    2006 1.4k citations Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White et al. profile →
  9. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: matter and galaxy clustering
    2017 1.2k citations Volker Springel, Rüdiger Pakmor et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  10. The Aquarius Project: the subhaloes of galactic haloes
    2008 1.2k citations Volker Springel, Jie Wang et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  11. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the stellar mass content of groups and clusters of galaxies
    2017 1.2k citations Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  12. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the galaxy colour bimodality
    2017 1.1k citations Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  13. The IllustrisTNG simulations: public data release
    2019 953 citations Dylan Nelson, Volker Springel et al. profile →
  14. Properties of galaxies reproduced by a hydrodynamic simulation
    2014 917 citations Mark Vogelsberger, Shy Genel et al. profile →
  15. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: a tale of two elements – chemical evolution of magnesium and europium
    2018 894 citations Jill Naiman, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  16. Simulating galaxy formation with black hole driven thermal and kinetic feedback
    2016 879 citations Rainer Weinberger, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  17. Substructures in hydrodynamical cluster simulations
    2009 795 citations Klaus Dolag, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  18. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: radio haloes and magnetic fields
    2018 794 citations Federico Marinacci, Mark Vogelsberger et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  19. From dwarf spheroidals to cD galaxies: simulating the galaxy population in a ΛCDM cosmology
    2011 793 citations Simon D. M. White, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  20. Introducing the Illustris project: the evolution of galaxy populations across cosmic time
    2014 765 citations Shy Genel, Mark Vogelsberger et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  21. A model for cosmological simulations of galaxy formation physics
    2013 737 citations Mark Vogelsberger, Shy Genel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  22. First results from the TNG50 simulation: galactic outflows driven by supernovae and black hole feedback
    2019 695 citations Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  23. The inner structure of  CDM haloes -- I. A numerical convergence study
    2003 695 citations Julio F. Navarro, Adrian Jenkins et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  24. The inner structure of ΛCDM haloes - III. Universality and asymptotic slopes
    2004 692 citations Julio F. Navarro, Adrian Jenkins et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  25. A unified model for AGN feedback in cosmological simulations of structure formation
    2007 611 citations Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  26. First results from the TNG50 simulation: the evolution of stellar and gaseous discs across cosmic time
    2019 608 citations Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  27. Cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations: the entropy equation
    2002 595 citations Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  28. The formation history of elliptical galaxies
    2006 568 citations Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  29. The merger rate of galaxies in the Illustris simulation: a comparison with observations and semi-empirical models
    2015 519 citations Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Shy Genel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  30. The diversity and similarity of simulated cold dark matter haloes
    2009 517 citations Julio F. Navarro, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  31. The statistics of   CDM halo concentrations
    2007 504 citations Liang Gao, Julio F. Navarro et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  32. Black Holes in Galaxy Mergers: The Formation of Red Elliptical Galaxies
    2005 478 citations Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist et al. profile →
  33. The Illustris simulation: the evolving population of black holes across cosmic time
    2015 459 citations Mark Vogelsberger, Shy Genel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  34. Galaxy formation in the Planck cosmology – I. Matching the observed evolution of star formation rates, colours and stellar masses
    2015 453 citations Simon D. M. White, Raúl E. Angulo et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  35. The subhalo populations of ΛCDM dark haloes
    2004 440 citations Liang Gao, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  36. The large-scale structure of the Universe
    2006 424 citations Volker Springel, Carlos S. Frenk et al. profile →
  37. The Auriga Project: the properties and formation mechanisms of disc galaxies across cosmic time
    2017 423 citations Robert J. J. Grand, Facundo A. Gómez et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  38. The illustris simulation: Public data release
    2015 372 citations Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich et al. profile →
  39. Direct Cosmological Simulations of the Growth of Black Holes and Galaxies
    2008 361 citations Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist et al. profile →
  40. Fundamental differences between SPH and grid methods
    2007 332 citations Volker Springel et al. profile →
  41. Supermassive black holes and their feedback effects in the IllustrisTNG simulation
    2018 316 citations Rainer Weinberger, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  42. The stellar mass assembly of galaxies in the Illustris simulation: growth by mergers and the spatial distribution of accreted stars
    2016 312 citations Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  43. SIMULATIONS ON A MOVING MESH: THE CLUSTERED FORMATION OF POPULATION III PROTOSTARS
    2011 301 citations Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White et al. profile →
  44. The optical morphologies of galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulation: a comparison to Pan-STARRS observations
    2018 296 citations Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Dylan Nelson et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  45. The AREPO Public Code Release
    2020 292 citations Rainer Weinberger, Volker Springel et al. profile →
  46. Improving the convergence properties of the moving-mesh code AREPO
    2015 283 citations Rüdiger Pakmor, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  47. Simulating cosmic structure formation with the gadget-4 code
    2021 276 citations Volker Springel, Rüdiger Pakmor et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  48. The star formation activity of IllustrisTNG galaxies: main sequence, UVJ diagram, quenched fractions, and systematics
    2019 215 citations Martina Donnari, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  49. Universal structure of dark matter haloes over a mass range of 20 orders of magnitude
    2020 169 citations Jie Wang, Sownak Bose et al. profile →
  50. Introducing the thesan project: radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the epoch of reionization
    2021 160 citations Rahul Kannan, Rüdiger Pakmor et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  51. The MillenniumTNG Project: the hydrodynamical full physics simulation and a first look at its galaxy clusters
    2023 96 citations Rüdiger Pakmor, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Volker Springel 63.8k 27.4k 14.3k 2.9k 2.7k 502 66.8k
Lars Hernquist 67.1k 1.1× 27.8k 1.0× 12.6k 0.9× 2.7k 0.9× 2.6k 1.0× 649 69.9k
Simon D. M. White 49.9k 0.8× 23.7k 0.9× 10.7k 0.7× 3.3k 1.1× 1.9k 0.7× 358 52.0k
Carlos S. Frenk 48.8k 0.8× 22.7k 0.8× 12.9k 0.9× 3.6k 1.2× 1.7k 0.6× 491 51.2k
Mark Vogelsberger 30.7k 0.5× 13.4k 0.5× 7.8k 0.5× 1.3k 0.5× 1.5k 0.6× 351 32.5k
Paul Torrey 22.6k 0.4× 11.2k 0.4× 3.5k 0.2× 749 0.3× 1.3k 0.5× 170 23.6k
Donald P. Schneider 27.8k 0.4× 9.5k 0.3× 6.0k 0.4× 713 0.2× 806 0.3× 456 28.5k
Shaun Cole 21.8k 0.3× 10.6k 0.4× 5.0k 0.3× 1.8k 0.6× 939 0.3× 183 22.6k
Dylan Nelson 21.8k 0.3× 10.9k 0.4× 3.6k 0.3× 738 0.3× 1.3k 0.5× 201 22.8k
Shy Genel 21.7k 0.3× 11.0k 0.4× 3.4k 0.2× 787 0.3× 1.3k 0.5× 130 22.7k
Julio F. Navarro 23.9k 0.4× 11.0k 0.4× 6.0k 0.4× 1.6k 0.6× 681 0.3× 246 24.8k

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Despali, Giulia, et al.. (2024). A deep-learning model for the density profiles of subhaloes in IllustrisTNG. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 532(1). 164–176. 4 indexed citations
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Jamieson, Drew, Eiichiro Komatsu, Sownak Bose, et al.. (2024). Statistics of thermal gas pressure as a probe of cosmology and galaxy formation. Physical review. D. 109(6). 3 indexed citations
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Springel, Volker, et al.. (2024). The effect of local photoionization on the galaxy properties and the circumgalactic medium in simulations of Milky Way-sized galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 533(4). 4360–4383.
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Pillepich, Annalisa, Dylan Nelson, Christoph Engler, et al.. (2024). Milky Way and Andromeda analogues from the TNG50 simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 535(2). 1721–1762. 31 indexed citations
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Bose, Sownak, Carlos S. Frenk, Liang Gao, et al.. (2024). The influence of baryons on low-mass haloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 532(3). 3151–3165. 1 indexed citations
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Cadiou, Corentin, Simon D. M. White, Volker Springel, et al.. (2024). Evolution of cosmic filaments in the MTNG simulation. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 684. A63–A63. 23 indexed citations
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Contreras, Sergio, Raúl E. Angulo, Volker Springel, et al.. (2023). The MillenniumTNG Project: inferring cosmology from galaxy clustering with accelerated N-body scaling and subhalo abundance matching. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(2). 2489–2506. 25 indexed citations
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Bose, Sownak, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Monica Barrera, et al.. (2023). The MillenniumTNG Project: the large-scale clustering of galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(2). 2579–2593. 20 indexed citations
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Hadzhiyska, Boryana, Lars Hernquist, Daniel J. Eisenstein, et al.. (2023). The MillenniumTNG Project: refining the one-halo model of red and blue galaxies at different redshifts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(2). 2524–2538. 24 indexed citations
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Izquierdo–Villalba, David, Silvia Bonoli, Yetli Rosas-Guevara, et al.. (2022). Disc instability and bar formation: view from the IllustrisTNG simulations. IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome). 27 indexed citations
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Rosas-Guevara, Yetli, Silvia Bonoli, Massimo Dotti, et al.. (2022). The evolution of the barred galaxy population in the TNG50 simulation. BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca). 62 indexed citations
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Pakmor, Rüdiger, Christine M. Simpson, Freeke van de Voort, et al.. (2022). Formation and fate of low-metallicity stars in TNG50. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 512(3). 3602–3615. 6 indexed citations
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Fragkoudi, Francesca, Robert J. J. Grand, Rüdiger Pakmor, et al.. (2021). Revisiting the tension between fast bars and the ΛCDM paradigm. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 51 indexed citations
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Pulsoni, C., Ortwin Gerhard, M. Arnaboldi, et al.. (2020). The stellar halos of ETGs in the IllustrisTNG simulations: The photometric and kinematic diversity of galaxies at large radii. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 46 indexed citations
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Xu, D., Ling Zhu, Robert J. J. Grand, et al.. (2019). A study of stellar orbit fractions: simulated IllustrisTNG galaxies compared to CALIFA observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 489(1). 842–854. 25 indexed citations
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Martizzi, Davidé, Mark Vogelsberger, M. Celeste Artale, et al.. (2019). Baryons in the Cosmic Web of IllustrisTNG – I: gas in knots, filaments, sheets, and voids. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 486(3). 3766–3787. 111 indexed citations
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Ohlmann, Sebastian T., F. K. Röpke, Rüdiger Pakmor, & Volker Springel. (2017). Constructing stable 3D hydrodynamical models of giant stars. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 51 indexed citations
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Hull, Charles L. H., Philip Mocz, Blakesley Burkhart, et al.. (2017). Unveiling the Role of the Magnetic Field at the Smallest Scales of Star Formation. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 842(2). L9–L9. 40 indexed citations
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Enßlin, T. A., Christoph Pfrommer, Volker Springel, & M. Jubelgas. (2007). Cosmic ray physics in calculations of cosmological structure formation. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 62 indexed citations
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Maturi, M., Klaus Dolag, A. Waelkens, Volker Springel, & T. A. Enßlin. (2007). The actual Rees-Sciama effect from the local universe. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 19 indexed citations

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