Associate Professor Holger Baumgardt
Associate Professor

Holger Baumgardt

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Background

Holger Baumgardt received his PhD thesis from the University of Heidelberg in 1997. After receiving his PhD, he held postdoctoral positions at the universities of Heidelberg, Edinbugh, Tokyo and Bonn. From 2010 to 2014 he was an ARC funded Future Fellow and since 2014 he has been Associate Professor at the University of Queensland.

More information about Holger's research can be found in the article Heart of Darkness

Availability

Associate Professor Holger Baumgardt is:
Available for supervision

Fields of research

Physical Sciences

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg

Research interests

  • Globular clusters

  • Galactic Nuclei

Research impacts

Please see information about Associate Professor Holger Baumgardt's research impacts in the article Heart of Darkness.

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215 works between 1998 and 2025
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2024

Journal Article

Author Correction: Fast-moving stars around an intermediate-mass black hole in ω Centauri

Häberle, Maximilian, Neumayer, Nadine, Seth, Anil, Bellini, Andrea, Libralato, Mattia, Baumgardt, Holger, Whitaker, Matthew, Dumont, Antoine, Alfaro-Cuello, Mayte, Anderson, Jay, Clontz, Callie, Kacharov, Nikolay, Kamann, Sebastian, Feldmeier-Krause, Anja, Milone, Antonino, Nitschai, Maria Selina, Pechetti, Renuka and van de Ven, Glenn (2024). Author Correction: Fast-moving stars around an intermediate-mass black hole in ω Centauri. Nature, 634 (8032), E1-E1. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-08017-4

Author Correction: Fast-moving stars around an intermediate-mass black hole in ω Centauri

2025

Journal Article

Spatial mixing of stellar populations in globular clusters via binary--single star scattering

Pavlík, Václav, Davies, Melvyn B., Leitinger, Ellen I., Baumgardt, Holger, Bobrick, Alexey, Cabrera-Ziri, Ivan, Hilker, Michael and Winter, Andrew J. (2025). Spatial mixing of stellar populations in globular clusters via binary--single star scattering. Astronomy & Astrophysics. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202556753

Spatial mixing of stellar populations in globular clusters via binary--single star scattering

2025

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A supermassive black hole in a diminutive ultracompact dwarf galaxy discovered with JWST/NIRSpec+IFU

Taylor, Matthew A., Tahmasebzadeh, Behzad, Thompson, Solveig, Vasiliev, Eugene, Valluri, Monica, Drinkwater, Michael J., Côté, Patrick, Ferrarese, Laura, Roediger, Joel, Baumgardt, Holger, Bentz, Misty C., Dage, Kristen, Peng, Eric W., Lapeer, Drew, Liu, Chengze, Sumners, Zach, Wang, Kaixiang, Baldassare, Vivienne, Blakeslee, John P., Ko, Youkyung and Woods, Tyrone E. (2025). A supermassive black hole in a diminutive ultracompact dwarf galaxy discovered with JWST/NIRSpec+IFU. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 991 (1) L24, 1-8. doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae028e

A supermassive black hole in a diminutive ultracompact dwarf galaxy discovered with JWST/NIRSpec+IFU

2025

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A JWST view of the overmassive black hole in NGC 4486B

Tahmasebzadeh, Behzad, Taylor, Matthew A., Valluri, Monica, Yoshino, Haruka, Vasiliev, Eugene, Drinkwater, Michael J., Thompson, Solveig, Dage, Kristen, Côté, Patrick, Ferrarese, Laura, Akiba, Tatsuya, Baldassare, Vivienne, Bentz, Misty C., Blakeslee, John P., Baumgardt, Holger, Ko, Youkyung, Liu, Chengze, Madigan, Ann-Marie, Peng, Eric W., Roediger, Joel, Wang, Kaixiang and Woods, Tyrone E. (2025). A JWST view of the overmassive black hole in NGC 4486B. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 989 (2) L42, 1-10. doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/adf728

A JWST view of the overmassive black hole in NGC 4486B

2025

Journal Article

RR Lyrae stars in intermediate-age Magellanic clusters: membership probabilities and delay time distribution

Cuevas-Otahola, Bolivia, Mateu, Cecilia, Cabrera-Ziri, Ivan, Bruzual, Gustavo, Hernández-Pérez, Fabiola, Magris, Gladis and Baumgardt, Holger (2025). RR Lyrae stars in intermediate-age Magellanic clusters: membership probabilities and delay time distribution. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 541 (2), 1434-1448. doi: 10.1093/mnras/staf1095

RR Lyrae stars in intermediate-age Magellanic clusters: membership probabilities and delay time distribution

2025

Journal Article

The coherent satellite velocity field around the interacting spiral galaxy pair NGC5713/19: signature of two galaxy groups merging

Jerjen, Helmut, Deeley, Simon, Baumgardt, Holger and Sweet, Sarah M. (2025). The coherent satellite velocity field around the interacting spiral galaxy pair NGC5713/19: signature of two galaxy groups merging. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 542 (1), 62-75. doi: 10.1093/mnras/staf1235

The coherent satellite velocity field around the interacting spiral galaxy pair NGC5713/19: signature of two galaxy groups merging

2025

Journal Article

The Internal Kinematics of NGC 2808 and Its Multiple Populations

Griggio, M., Bellini, A., Aros, F. I., Vesperini, E., Libralato, M., Anderson, J., Baumgardt, H., Ferraro, F. R., van der Marel, R. P., Raso, S., Renzini, A., Rest, A. and Ryan Jr, R. E. (2025). The Internal Kinematics of NGC 2808 and Its Multiple Populations. Astrophysical Journal, 986 (1) 80, 1-10. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/add3fd

The Internal Kinematics of NGC 2808 and Its Multiple Populations

2025

Journal Article

Reevaluating UMa3/U1: star cluster or the smallest known galaxy?

Devlin, Scot, Baumgardt, Holger and Sweet, Sarah M. (2025). Reevaluating UMa3/U1: star cluster or the smallest known galaxy?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 539 (3), 2485-2497. doi: 10.1093/mnras/staf572

Reevaluating UMa3/U1: star cluster or the smallest known galaxy?

2025

Journal Article

oMEGACat. VI. Analysis of the Overall Kinematics of Omega Centauri in 3D: Velocity Dispersion, Kinematic Distance, Anisotropy, and Energy Equipartition

Häberle, Maximilian, Neumayer, N., Clontz, C., Seth, A. C., Smith, P. J., Kamann, S., Pechetti, R., Nitschai, M. S., Alfaro-Cuello, M., Baumgardt, H., Bellini, A., Feldmeier-Krause, A., Kacharov, N., Libralato, M., Milone, A. P., Souza, S. O., van de Ven, G. and Wang 王, Z. 梓先 (2025). oMEGACat. VI. Analysis of the Overall Kinematics of Omega Centauri in 3D: Velocity Dispersion, Kinematic Distance, Anisotropy, and Energy Equipartition. The Astrophysical Journal, 983 (2) 95, 1-22. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/adbe67

oMEGACat. VI. Analysis of the Overall Kinematics of Omega Centauri in 3D: Velocity Dispersion, Kinematic Distance, Anisotropy, and Energy Equipartition

2025

Journal Article

Multiple stellar populations at less evolved stages : IV. Evidence of helium enrichments in four Magellanic globular clusters

Li, Chengyuan, Wang, Li, Ji, Xin and Baumgardt, Holger (2025). Multiple stellar populations at less evolved stages : IV. Evidence of helium enrichments in four Magellanic globular clusters. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 695 A63, A63. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202452952

Multiple stellar populations at less evolved stages : IV. Evidence of helium enrichments in four Magellanic globular clusters

2025

Journal Article

The kinematics of 30 Milky Way globular clusters and the multiple stellar populations within

Leitinger, E. I., Baumgardt, H., Cabrera-Ziri, I., Hilker, M., Carbajo-Hijarrubia, J., Gieles, M., Husser, T. O. and Kamann, S. (2025). The kinematics of 30 Milky Way globular clusters and the multiple stellar populations within. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 694 A184, 1-28. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202452477

The kinematics of 30 Milky Way globular clusters and the multiple stellar populations within

2025

Journal Article

Direct N-body simulations of NGC 6397 and its tidal tails

Arnold, Anthony D. and Baumgardt, Holger (2025). Direct N-body simulations of NGC 6397 and its tidal tails. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 537 (2), 1807-1817. doi: 10.1093/mnras/staf121

Direct N-body simulations of NGC 6397 and its tidal tails

2024

Journal Article

Origin of high dark remnant fractions in Milky Way Globular Clusters: the crucial role of initial black hole retention

Rostami-Shirazi, Ali, Baumgardt, Holger, Zonoozi, Akram Hasani, Ghasemi, S. Mojtaba and Haghi, Hosein (2024). Origin of high dark remnant fractions in Milky Way Globular Clusters: the crucial role of initial black hole retention. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 536 (2) stae2644, 1332-1343. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stae2644

Origin of high dark remnant fractions in Milky Way Globular Clusters: the crucial role of initial black hole retention

2024

Journal Article

Probing populations of dark stellar remnants in the globular clusters 47 Tuc and Terzan 5 using pulsar timing

Smith, Peter J., Hénault-Brunet, Vincent, Dickson, Nolan, Gieles, Mark and Baumgardt, Holger (2024). Probing populations of dark stellar remnants in the globular clusters 47 Tuc and Terzan 5 using pulsar timing. The Astrophysical Journal, 975 (2) 268, 1-26. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad77bc

Probing populations of dark stellar remnants in the globular clusters 47 Tuc and Terzan 5 using pulsar timing

2024

Journal Article

Fast-moving stars around an intermediate-mass black hole in ω Centauri

Häberle, Maximilian, Neumayer, Nadine, Seth, Anil, Bellini, Andrea, Libralato, Mattia, Baumgardt, Holger, Whitaker, Matthew, Dumont, Antoine, Alfaro-Cuello, Mayte, Anderson, Jay, Clontz, Callie, Kacharov, Nikolay, Kamann, Sebastian, Feldmeier-Krause, Anja, Milone, Antonino, Nitschai, Maria Selina, Pechetti, Renuka and van de Ven, Glenn (2024). Fast-moving stars around an intermediate-mass black hole in ω Centauri. Nature, 631 (8020), 285-288. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07511-z

Fast-moving stars around an intermediate-mass black hole in ω Centauri

2024

Journal Article

Driving factors behind multiple populations

Huang, Ruoyun, Tang, Baitian, Li, Chengyuan, Geisler, Doug, Mateo, Mario, Song, Ying-Yi, Baumgardt, Holger, Carballo-Bello, Julio A., Wang, Yue, Nie, Jundan, Dias, Bruno and Fernández-Trincado, José G. (2024). Driving factors behind multiple populations. Science China: Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy, 67 (5) 259513, 1-10. doi: 10.1007/s11433-023-2332-5

Driving factors behind multiple populations

2024

Journal Article

Multimass modelling of Milky Way globular clusters - II. present-day black hole populations

Dickson, N, Smith, P J, Hénault-Brunet, V, Gieles, M and Baumgardt, H (2024). Multimass modelling of Milky Way globular clusters - II. present-day black hole populations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 529 (1), 331-347. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stae470

Multimass modelling of Milky Way globular clusters - II. present-day black hole populations

2023

Journal Article

The influence of black holes on the binary population of the globular cluster Palomar 5

Wang, Long, Gieles, Mark, Baumgardt, Holger, Li, Chengyuan, Pang, Xiaoying and Tang, Baitian (2023). The influence of black holes on the binary population of the globular cluster Palomar 5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527 (3), 7495-7514. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stad3657

The influence of black holes on the binary population of the globular cluster Palomar 5

2023

Journal Article

The contribution of supermassive black holes in stripped nuclei to the supermassive black hole population of UCDs and galaxy clusters

Mayes, Rebecca J., Drinkwater, Michael J., Pfeffer, Joel and Baumgardt, Holger (2023). The contribution of supermassive black holes in stripped nuclei to the supermassive black hole population of UCDs and galaxy clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527 (3), 4643-4656. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stad3428

The contribution of supermassive black holes in stripped nuclei to the supermassive black hole population of UCDs and galaxy clusters

2023

Journal Article

Supermassive black holes in a mass-limited galaxy sample

Byrne, Zachary, Drinkwater, Michael J., Baumgardt, Holger, Blyth, David, Côté, Patrick, Lüetzgendorf, Nora, Spengler, Chelsea, Ferrarese, Laura, Mahajan, Smriti, Pfeffer, Joel and Sweet, Sarah (2023). Supermassive black holes in a mass-limited galaxy sample. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 526 (1), 1095-1111. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stad2771

Supermassive black holes in a mass-limited galaxy sample

Past funding

  • 2022
    MAVIS: A Revolutionary New Instrument for the European Southern Observatory (ARC LIEF administered by Macquarie University)
    Macquarie University
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2013
    ResTeach 2011 0.05 FTE SChool of Mathematics and Physics
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2013
    Dark Matter in the Smallest Galaxies
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2011
    New-generation parallel-computing cluster for the mathematical and physical sciences
    UQ Major Equipment and Infrastructure
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2014
    Advanced computer simulations of star cluster evolution
    ARC Future Fellowships
    Open grant

Availability

Associate Professor Holger Baumgardt is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Studying globular cluster tidal tails with Gaia

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Sarah Sweet

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Studying the stellar initial mass function and binary fraction using Gaia data

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Sarah Sweet

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Formation and Dynamics of Stellar-mass Black Holes in Star Clusters

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Sarah Sweet

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Studying the dwarf galaxy population of the Milky Way

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Sarah Sweet

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Understanding diversity: chemical and kinematic tracers of galaxy evolution

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Sarah Sweet

Completed supervision

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