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Journal Article

• The formation and disruption of globular cluster populations in simulations of present-day L * galaxies with controlled assembly histories
  
  Newton, O., Davies, J. J., Pfeffer, J., Crain, R. A., Kruijssen, J. M. D., Pontzen, A., & Bastian, N. (2025). The formation and disruption of globular cluster populations in simulations of present-day L * galaxies with controlled assembly histories. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 542(2), 591-607. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf1226
• edge: the emergence of dwarf galaxy scaling relations from cosmological radiation-hydrodynamics simulations
  
  Rey, M. P., Taylor, E., Gray, E. I., Kim, S. Y., Andersson, E. P., Pontzen, A., Agertz, O., Read, J. I., Cadiou, C., Yates, R. M., Orkney, M. D. A., Scholte, D., Saintonge, A., Breneman, J., McQuinn, K. B. W., Muni, C., & Das, P. (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. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf1058
• EDGE: A new model for nuclear star cluster formation in dwarf galaxies
  
  Gray, E. I., Read, J. I., Taylor, E., Orkney, M. D. A., Rey, M. P., Yates, R. M., Kim, S. Y., Noël, N. E. D., Agertz, O., Andersson, E. P., & Pontzen, A. (2025). EDGE: A new model for nuclear star cluster formation in dwarf galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 539(2), 1167-1179. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf521
• The PARADIGM project – I. How early merger histories shape the present-day sizes of Milky-Way-mass galaxies
  
  Joshi, G. D., Pontzen, A., Agertz, O., Rey, M. P., Read, J., & Pillepich, A. (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. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf276
• EDGE-INFERNO: Simulating Every Observable Star in Faint Dwarf Galaxies and Their Consequences for Resolved-star Photometric Surveys
  
  Andersson, E. P., Rey, M. P., Pontzen, A., Cadiou, C., Agertz, O., Read, J. I., & Martin, N. F. (2025). EDGE-INFERNO: Simulating Every Observable Star in Faint Dwarf Galaxies and Their Consequences for Resolved-star Photometric Surveys. The Astrophysical Journal, 978(2), Article 129. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad99d6
• The emergence of globular clusters and globular-cluster-like dwarfs.
  
  Taylor, E. D., Read, J. I., Orkney, M. D. A., Kim, S. Y., Pontzen, A., Agertz, O., Rey, M. P., Andersson, E. P., Collins, M. L. M., & Yates, R. M. (2025). The emergence of globular clusters and globular-cluster-like dwarfs. Nature, 645, 327-331. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09494-x
• edge: dark matter core creation depends on the timing of star formation
  
  Muni, C., Pontzen, A., Read, J. I., Agertz, O., Rey, M. P., Taylor, E., Kim, S. Y., & Gray, E. I. (2025). edge: dark matter core creation depends on the timing of star formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 536(1), 314-323. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2748
• Cosmological feedback from a halo assembly perspective
  
  Lucie-Smith, L., Peiris, H. V., Pontzen, A., Halder, A., Schaye, J., Schaller, M., Helly, J., McGibbon, R. J., & Elbers, W. (2025). Cosmological feedback from a halo assembly perspective. Physical Review D, 112(6), Article 063541. https://doi.org/10.1103/vh8n-9cr2
• Bubbles in a box: Eliminating edge nucleation in cold-atom simulators of vacuum decay
  
  Jenkins, A. C., Peiris, H. V., & Pontzen, A. (2025). Bubbles in a box: Eliminating edge nucleation in cold-atom simulators of vacuum decay. Physical Review A, 112(2), Article 023318. https://doi.org/10.1103/lrc6-49q1
• Generalized cold-atom simulators for vacuum decay
  
  Jenkins, A. C., Moss, I. G., Billam, T. P., Hadzibabic, Z., Peiris, H. V., & Pontzen, A. (2024). Generalized cold-atom simulators for vacuum decay. Physical Review A, 110(3), Article L031301. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.110.l031301
• Action and energy clustering of stellar streams in deforming Milky Way dark matter haloes
  
  Brooks, R. A. N., Sanders, J. L., Petersen, M. S., Pontzen, A., & Lilleengen, S. (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. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1565
• Are the fates of supermassive black holes and galaxies determined by individual mergers, or by the properties of their host haloes?
  
  Davies, J. J., Pontzen, A., & Crain, R. A. (2024). Are the fates of supermassive black holes and galaxies determined by individual mergers, or by the properties of their host haloes? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(3), 4705–4716. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3456
• Particle tagging and its implications for stellar population dynamics
  
  Le Bret, T., Pontzen, A., Cooper, A., Frenk, C., Zolotov, A., Brooks, A., Governato, F., & Parry, O. (2017). Particle tagging and its implications for stellar population dynamics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468(3), 3212-3222. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx552
• Milking the spherical cow - on aspherical dynamics in spherical coordinates
  
  Pontzen, A., Read, J. I., Teyssier, R., Governato, F., Gualandris, A., Roth, N., & Devriendt, J. (2015). Milking the spherical cow - on aspherical dynamics in spherical coordinates. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 451(2), 1366–1379. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1032