Professor Simon Goodwin

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics

s.goodwin@sheffield.ac.uk

E48, Hicks Building

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Professor Simon Goodwin
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
E48
Hicks Building
Hounsfield Road
Sheffield
S3 7RH

Research interests

My research centres on star formation. In particular, how stars move and interact in their first few million years (and the potential impact on planet formation), and how we can compare observations to theory/simulations.

At Sheffield I work with Claire Esau (Postdoc) and Dan Griffiths, Rebecca Arnold, and Suraiya Atker (PhD students).

Publications

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Featured publications

Journal articles

Parker RJ, Goodwin SP, Wright NJ, Meyer MR & Quanz SP (2016) Mass segregation in star clusters is not energy equipartition. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 459(1), L119-L123.
Wright NJ, Parker RJ, Goodwin SP & Drake JJ (2014) Constraints on massive star formation: Cygnus OB2 was always an association. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 438(1), 639-646.
Bastian N, Lamers HJGLM, de Mink SE, Longmore SN, Goodwin SP & Gieles M (2013) Early disc accretion as the origin of abundance anomalies in globular clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 436(3), 2398-2411.

All publications

Journal articles

Parker RJ, Goodwin SP & Diamond JL (2025) Can planet–planet binaries survive in star-forming regions?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 540(1). View this article in WRRO
Singh-Bal SSK, Blaylock-Squibbs GA, Parker RJ & Goodwin SP (2025) Deviations from the universal initial mass function in binary star clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 536(1), 492-497. View this article in WRRO
Park SM, Shin J, Chun SH, Goodwin SP, Chun K & Kim SS (2024) Dynamical evolution of substructured star clusters at 3 kpc from the Galactic Center. Journal of the Korean Astronomical Society, 57(2), 211-221. View this article in WRRO
Houghton RJ & Goodwin SP (2024) From cores to stars: searching for a universal rule for star formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 531(3), 3373-3385. View this article in WRRO
Shenton RG, Houghton RJ, Oudmaijer RD, Goodwin SP, Lumsden SL, Koumpia E & Koutoulaki M (2024) The RMS survey: a census of massive YSO multiplicity in the K band. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(3), 8054-8066. View this article in WRRO
Tyler E, Green AM & Goodwin SP (2023) Modelling uncertainties in wide binary constraints on primordial black holes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524(2), 3052-3059. View this article in WRRO
Rawiraswattana K & Goodwin SP (2023) On encounter rates in star clusters. The Astrophysical Journal, 947(1).
Houghton RJ & Goodwin SP (2022) Few observation binary orbit solver (fobos) from two (or more) astrometric observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 513(2), 2635-2651. View this article in WRRO
Koumpia E, de Wit W-J, Oudmaijer RD, Frost AJ, Lumsden S, Caratti o Garatti A, Goodwin SP, Stecklum B, Mendigutía I, Ilee JD & Vioque M (2021) The first interferometric survey of massive YSOs in the K-band. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 654. View this article in WRRO
Caballero-Nieves SM, Gies DR, Baines EK, Bouchez AH, Dekany RG, Goodwin SP, Rickman EL, Roberts LC, Taggart K, ten Brummelaar TA & Turner NH (2020) A high angular resolution survey of massive stars in Cygnus OB2 : JHK adaptive optics results from the Gemini Near-Infrared Imager. The Astronomical Journal, 160(3).
Arnold B, Goodwin SP & Wright NJ (2020) The velocity structure of Cygnus OB2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495(3), 3474-3481.
Park S-M, Goodwin SP & Kim SS (2020) Making top-heavy IMFs from canonical IMFs near the galactic centre. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 494(1), 325-331.
Könyves V, André P, Arzoumanian D, Schneider N, Men’shchikov A, Bontemps S, Ladjelate B, Didelon P, Pezzuto S, Benedettini M , Bracco A et al (2020) Properties of the dense core population in Orion B as seen by the Herschel Gould Belt survey. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 635.
Akter S & Goodwin SP (2019) Finding binary star fractions in any distribution. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 488(3), 3446-3451.
Arnold B & Goodwin SP (2019) A method to analyse velocity structure. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 483(3), 3894-3909. View this article in WRRO
Pomohaci R, Oudmaijer RD & Goodwin SP (2019) A pilot survey of the binarity of Massive Young Stellar Objects with K-band adaptive optics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(1), 226-238. View this article in WRRO
Kouwenhoven MBN, Li Y, Stamatellos D & Goodwin SP (2018) Circumstellar disk fragmentation and the origin of massive planetary companions, brown dwarfs, and very low-mass stars. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 14(S345), 239-240.
Duchene G, Lacour S, Moraux E, Goodwin SP & Bouvier J (2018) Is stellar multiplicity universal? Tight stellar binaries in the Orion nebula Cluster. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478(2), 1825-1836. View this article in WRRO
Park SM, Goodwin SP & Kim SS (2018) The early dynamical evolution of star clusters near the Galactic Centre. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478(1), 183-196. View this article in WRRO
Griffiths D, Goodwin SP & Caballero-Nieves SM (2018) Massive, wide binaries as tracers of massive star formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476(2), 2493-2500. View this article in WRRO
Gennaro M, Goodwin SP, Parker RJ, Allison RJ & Brandner W (2017) Hierarchical formation of Westerlund 1: a collapsing cluster with no primordial mass segregation?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 472(2), 1760-1769. View this article in WRRO
Arnold B, Goodwin SP, Griffiths DW & Parker RJ (2017) How do binary clusters form?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471(2), 2498-2507. View this article in WRRO
Li Y, Kouwenhoven MBN, Stamatellos D & Goodwin SP (2016) The Long-term Dynamical Evolution of Disk-fragmented Multiple Systems in the Solar Neighborhood. Astrophysical Journal, 831(2). View this article in WRRO
Lee PL & Goodwin SP (2016) Surviving gas expulsion with substructure. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(3), 2997-3001.
Parker RJ, Goodwin SP, Wright NJ, Meyer MR & Quanz SP (2016) Mass segregation in star clusters is not energy equipartition. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 459(1), L119-L123.
Rawiraswattana K, Hubber DA & Goodwin SP (2016) Discs in misaligned binary systems. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(4), 3505-3518.
Carraro G, de Grijs R, Elmegreen B, Stetson P, Anthony-Twarog B, Goodwin S, Geisler D & Minniti D (2015) HIGHLIGHTS OF COMMISSION 37 SCIENCE RESULTS. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 11(T29A), 502-521.
Farias JP, Smith R, Fellhauer M, Goodwin S, Candlish GN, Blana M & Dominguez R (2015) The difficult early stages of embedded star clusters and the importance of the pre-gas expulsion virial ratio. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 450(3), 2451-2458. View this article in WRRO
Kinnear TM, Miao J, White GJ, Sugitani K & Goodwin S (2015) Evolution of prolate molecular clouds at H II boundaries - II. Formation of BRCs of asymmetrical morphology. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 450(1), 1017-1031. View this article in WRRO
Parker RJ & Goodwin SP (2015) Comparisons between different techniques for measuring mass segregation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449(4), 3381-3392. View this article in WRRO
Ward-Duong K, Patience J, De Rosa RJ, Bulger J, Rajan A, Goodwin SP, Parker RJ, McCarthy DW & Kulesa C (2015) The M-dwarfs in Multiples (MinMs) survey – I. Stellar multiplicity among low-mass stars within 15 pc★. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449(3), 2618-2637.
Kouwenhoven MBN, Goodwin SP, de Grijs R, Rose M & Kim SS (2014) How does a low-mass cut-off in the stellar IMF affect the evolution of young star clusters?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445(3), 2256-2267. View this article in WRRO
Kinnear TM, Miao J, White GJ & Goodwin S (2014) Evolution of prolate molecular clouds at H II boundaries - I. Formation of fragment-core structures. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 444(2), 1221-1235. View this article in WRRO
Wright NJ, Parker RJ, Goodwin SP & Drake JJ (2014) Constraints on massive star formation: Cygnus OB2 was always an association. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 438(1), 639-646.
Parker RJ, Wright NJ, Goodwin SP & Meyer MR (2014) Dynamical evolution of star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 438(1), 620-638.
Bastian N, Lamers HJGLM, de Mink SE, Longmore SN, Goodwin SP & Gieles M (2013) Early disc accretion as the origin of abundance anomalies in globular clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 436(3), 2398-2411.
De Grijs R, Goodwin SP & Anders P (2013) No compelling evidence of significant early star cluster disruption in the large magellanic cloud. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 436(1), 136-149.
Holman K, Walch SK, Goodwin SP & Whitworth AP (2013) Mapping the core mass function on to the stellar initial mass function: Multiplicity matters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 432(4), 3534-3543.
Hubber DA, Falle SAEG & Goodwin SP (2013) Convergence of AMR and SPH simulations - I. Hydrodynamical resolution and convergence tests. MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 432(1), 711-727.
Hubber DA, Allison RJ, Smith R & Goodwin SP (2013) A hybrid SPH/N-body method for star cluster simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 430(3), 1599-1616.
Pang X, Grebel EK, Allison RJ, Goodwin SP, Altmann M, Harbeck D, Moffat AFJ & Drissen L (2013) On the origin of mass segregation in NGC 3603. Astrophysical Journal, 764(1).
Goodwin SP (2013) Binary mass ratios: System mass not primary mass. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, 430(1), L6-L9.
Smith R, Goodwin S, Fellhauer M & Assmann P (2013) Infant mortality in the hierarchical merging scenario: dependence on gas expulsion time-scales. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 428(2), 1303-1311. View this article in WRRO
King RR, Goodwin SP, Parker RJ & Patience J (2012) Testing the universality of star formation - II. Comparing separation distributions of nearby star-forming regions and the field. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 427(3), 2636-2646.
Bressert E, Bastian N, Evans CJ, Sana H, Hénault-Brunet V, Goodwin SP, Parker RJ, Gieles M, Bestenlehner JM, Vink JS , Taylor WD et al (2012) The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey: IV. Candidates for isolated high-mass star formation in 30 Doradus. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 542.
Parker RJ & Goodwin SP (2012) The same, but different: Stochasticity in binary destruction. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Riaz B, Lodieu N, Goodwin S, Stamatellos D & Thompson M (2012) Disc frequencies for brown dwarfs in the Upper Scorpius OB association: Implications for brown dwarf formation theories. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 420(3), 2497-2517. View this article in WRRO
Rawiraswattana K, Lomax O & Goodwin SP (2011) Collisions in young triple systems. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Parker RJ, Goodwin SP & Allison RJ (2011) The evolution of binary populations in cool, clumpy star clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 418(4), 2565-2575.
Kouwenhoven MBN, Goodwin SP, Davies MB, Parker RJ, Kroupa P & Malmberg D (2011) The origin of very wide binary stars. Proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics. View this article in WRRO
Thies I, Kroupa P, Goodwin SP, Stamatellos D & Whitworth AP (2011) A natural formation scenario for misaligned and short-period eccentric extrasolar planets. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Smith R, Slater R, Fellhauer M, Goodwin S & Assmann P (2011) Formation rates of star clusters in the hierarchical merging scenario. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 416(1), 383-390. View this article in WRRO
Allison RJ & Goodwin SP (2011) On the formation of trapezium-like systems. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Smith R, Fellhauer M, Goodwin S & Assmann P (2011) Surviving infant mortality in the hierarchical merging scenario. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 414(4), 3036-3043. View this article in WRRO
Hubber DA, Falle SAEG & Goodwin SP (2011) Convergence of SPH and AMR simulations. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 6(S270), 429-432.
Goodwin SP (2011) The theory of young cluster disruption. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 6(S270), 283-286.
Parker RJ, Bouvier J, Goodwin SP, Moraux E, Allison RJ, Guieu S & Güdel M (2011) On the mass segregation of stars and brown dwarfs in Taurus. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Parker RJ & Goodwin SP (2011) The dynamical evolution of very low mass binaries in open clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 411(2), 891-900.
Hu Y, Deng L, de Grijs R, Liu Q & Goodwin SP (2010) THE BINARY FRACTION OF THE YOUNG CLUSTER NGC 1818 IN THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD. ASTROPHYS J, 724(1), 649-656.
Allison RJ, Goodwin SP, Parker RJ, Portegies Zwart SF & de Grijs R (2010) The early dynamical evolution of cool, clumpy star clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 407(2), 1098-1107.
Crowther PA, Schnurr O, Hirschi R, Yusof N, Parker RJ, Goodwin SP & Abu Kassim H (2010) The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150 M-circle dot stellar mass limit. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 408(2), 731-751.
Thies I, Kroupa P, Goodwin SP, Stamatellos D & Whitworth AP (2010) TIDALLY INDUCED BROWN DWARF AND PLANET FORMATION IN CIRCUMSTELLAR DISKS. ASTROPHYS J, 717(1), 577-585.
Kouwenhoven MBN, Goodwin SP, Parker RJ, Davies MB, Malmberg D & Kroupa P (2010) The formation of very wide binaries during the star cluster dissolution phase. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 404(4), 1835-1848.
Goodwin SP (2010) Binaries in star clusters and the origin of the field stellar population.. Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci, 368(1913), 851-866.
Wheelwright HE, Oudmaijer RD & Goodwin SP (2010) The mass ratio and formation mechanisms of Herbig Ae/Be star binary systems. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 401(2), 1199-1218.
Kouwenhoven MBN, Goodwin SP, Parker RJ, Davies MB, Malmberg D & Kroupa P (2010) The formation of very wide binaries. Proceedings of Binaries - Key to Comprehension of the Universe. View this article in WRRO
Kouwenhoven MBN & Goodwin SP (2009) What does the IMF really tell us about star formation?. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 5(S262), 368-369.
Kouwenhoven MBN, Goodwin SP, Parker RJ, Davies MB, Malmberg D & Kroupa P (2009) The origin of very wide binary systems. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 5(S266), 438-441.
Parker RJ, Goodwin SP, Kroupa P & Kouwenhoven MBN (2009) Do binaries in clusters form in the same way as in the field ?. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 397(3), 1577-1586.
Parker RJ & Goodwin SP (2009) The role of cluster evolution in disrupting planetary systems and discs: the Kozai mechanism. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 397(2), 1041-1045.
Allison RJ, Goodwin SP, Parker RJ, De Grijs R, Zwart SFP & Kouwenhoven MBN (2009) DYNAMICAL MASS SEGREGATION ON A VERY SHORT TIMESCALE. ASTROPHYS J LETT, 700(2), L99-L103.
Goodwin SP & Kouwenhoven MBN (2009) What does a universal initial mass function imply about star formation?. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 397(1), L36-L40.
Allison RJ, Goodwin SP, Parker RJ, Zwart SFP, de Grijs R & Kouwenhoven MBN (2009) Using the minimum spanning tree to trace mass segregation. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 395(3), 1449-1454.
Attwood RE, Goodwin SP, Stamatellos D & Whitworth AP (2009) Simulating star formation in molecular cloud cores IV. The role of turbulence and thermodynamics. ASTRON ASTROPHYS, 495(1), 201-215.
Bastian N & Goodwin SP (2009) Dynamical masses of young star clusters: Constraints on the stellar IMF and star-formation efficiency. Eso Astrophysics Symposia, 2009, 395-398.
Kouwenhoven MBN, Brown AGA, Goodwin SP, Zwart SFP & Kaper L (2009) Exploring the consequences of pairing algorithms for binary stars. ASTRON ASTROPHYS, 493(3), 979-1016.
Kouwenhoven MBN, Brown AGA, Goodwin SP, Zwart SFP & Kaper L (2008) Pairing mechanisms for binary stars. ASTRON NACHR, 329(9-10), 984-987.
de Grijs R, Kouwenhoven MBN & Goodwin SP (2008) What do dynamical cluster masses really tell us about dynamics?. ASTRON NACHR, 329(9-10), 972-975.
de Grijs R, Goodwin SP, Kouwenhoven MBN & Kroupa P (2008) Open cluster stability and the effects of binary stars. ASTRON ASTROPHYS, 492(3), 685-693.
Bastian N, Gieles M, Goodwin SP, Trancho G, Smith LJ, Konstantopoulos I & Efremov Y (2008) The early expansion of cluster cores. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 389(1), 223-230.
Parmentier G, Goodwin SP, Kroupa P & Baumgardt H (2008) The shape of the initial cluster mass function: What it tells us about the local star formation efficiency. ASTROPHYS J, 678(1), 347-352.
de Grijs R & Goodwin SP (2008) Star cluster 'infant mortality' in the Small Magellanic Cloud (Redivivus). MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 383(3), 1000-1006.
Brandner W, Clark JS, Stolte A, Waters R, Negueruela I & Goodwin SP (2008) Intermediate to low-mass stellar content of Westerlund 1. ASTRON ASTROPHYS, 478(1), 137-149.
Goodwin SP, Nutter D, Kroupa P, Ward-Thompson D & Whitworth AP (2008) The relationship between the prestellar core mass function and the stellar initial mass function. ASTRON ASTROPHYS, 477(3), 823-827.
Clark JS, Muno MP, Negueruela I, Dougherty SM, Crowther PA, Goodwin SP & de Grijs R (2008) Unveiling the X-ray point source population of the Young Massive Cluster Westerlund 1. ASTRON ASTROPHYS, 477(1), 147-163.
Bastian N (2007) Dynamical Masses of Young Star Clusters: Constraints on the Stellar IMF and Star-Formation Efficiency. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 3(S246), 32-35. View this article in WRRO
Stamatellos D, Whitworth AP, Bisbas T & Goodwin S (2007) Radiative transfer and the energy equation in SPH simulations of star formation. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 475(1), 37-49. View this article in WRRO
Parker RJ & Goodwin SP (2007) Do O-stars form in isolation?. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 380(3), 1271-1275.
Goodwin SP & Whitworth A (2007) Brown dwarf formation by binary disruption. ASTRON ASTROPHYS, 466(3), 943-948.
Green AM & Goodwin SP (2007) On mini-halo encounters with stars. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 375(3), 1111-1120.
Attwood RE, Goodwin SP & Whitworth AP (2007) Adaptive smoothing lengths in SPH. ASTRON ASTROPHYS, 464(2), 447-450.
Goodwin SP & Bastian N (2006) Gas expulsion and the destruction of massive young clusters. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 373(2), 752-758.
Bastian N & Goodwin SP (2006) Evidence for the strong effect of gas removal on the internal dynamics of young stellar clusters. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 369(1), L9-L13.
Goodwin SP, Whitworth AP & Ward-Thompson D (2006) Star formation in molecular cores. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 452(2), 487-492.
Hennebelle P, Whitworth AP & Goodwin SP (2006) A dynamical model for the dusty ring in the Coalsack. ASTRON ASTROPHYS, 451(1), 141-146.
Hubber DA, Goodwin SP & Whitworth AP (2006) Resolution requirements for simulating gravitational fragmentation using SPH. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 450(3), 881-886. View this article in WRRO
Whitworth AP & Goodwin SP (2005) The formation of brown dwarfs. Astronomische Nachrichten, 326(10), 899-904. View this article in WRRO
Goodwin S, Hubber D, Moraux E & Whitworth A (2005) The distribution of ejected brown dwarfs in clusters. Astronomische Nachrichten, 326(10), 1040-1043. View this article in WRRO
Goodwin SP & Kroupa P (2005) Limits on the primordial stellar multiplicity. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 439(2), 565-569.
Stamatellos D, Whitworth AP, Boyd DFA & Goodwin SP (2005) How to identify the youngest protostars. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 439(1), 159-169.
Goodwin SP & Pagel BEJ (2005) Supernova II enrichment and the star cluster mass function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 359(2), 707-710.
Clark JS, Negueruela I, Crowther PA & Goodwin SP (2005) On the massive stellar population of the super star cluster Westerlund 1. ASTRON ASTROPHYS, 434(3), 949-969.
Goodwin SP, Whitworth AP & Ward-Thompson D (2004) Simulating star formation in molecular cores. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 423(1), 169-182.
Goodwin SP, Whitworth AP & Ward-Thompson D (2004) An explanation for the unusual IMF in Taurus. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 419(2), 543-547.
Goodwin SP, Mestel J, Mestel L & Wright GAE (2004) An idealized pulsar magnetosphere: the relativistic force-free approximation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 349(1), 213-224.
Hennebelle P, Whitworth AP, Cha S-H & Goodwin SP (2004) Protostellar collapse induced by compression - II. Rotation and fragmentation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 348(2), 687-701.
Goodwin SP, Whitworth AP & Ward-Thompson D (2004) Simulating star formation in molecular cloud cores. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 414(2), 633-650.
Goodwin SP & Whitworth AP (2004) The dynamical evolution of fractal star clusters: The survival of substructure. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 413(3), 929-937.
Clark JS, Goodwin SP, Crowther PA, Kaper L, Fairbairn M, Langer N & Brocksopp C (2002) Physical parameters of the high-mass X-ray binary 4U1700-37. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 392(3), 909-920.
Goodwin SP, Ward-Thompson D & Whitworth AP (2002) Why do starless cores appear more flattened than protostellar cores?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 330(4), 769-771.
Clark JS, Reig P, Goodwin SP, Larionov VM, Blay P, Coe MJ, Fabregat J, Negueruela I, Papadakis I & Steele IA (2001) On the radio emitting high mass X-ray binary LS 5039. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 376(2), 476-483.
Hendry MA, Rauzy S, Goodwin SP & Gribbin J (2001) A robust method for measuring the Hubble parameter. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 324(3), 717-724.
Goodwin SP, Gribbin J & Hendry MA (1998) The relative size of the milky way. Observatory, 118(1145), 201-208.
Goodwin SP (1998) Constraints on the initial conditions of globular clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 294(1), 47-60.
Goodwin SP (1997) The ellipticities of Galactic and Large Magellanic Cloud globular clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 286(3), L39-L42.
Goodwin SP (1997) The initial conditions of young globular clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 286(3), 669-680.
Goodwin SP (1997) Residual gas expulsion from young globular clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 284(4), 785-802.
Goodwin SP, Gribbin J & Hendry MA (1997) A new Determination of the Hubble Parameter using Galaxy Linear Diameters. The Astronomical Journal, 114, 2212-2212.
Li Y, Kouwenhoven MBN, Stamatellos D & Goodwin SP () THE DYNAMICAL EVOLUTION OF LOW-MASS HYDROGEN-BURNING STARS, BROWN DWARFS, AND PLANETARY-MASS OBJECTS FORMED THROUGH DISK FRAGMENTATION. The Astrophysical Journal, 805(2), 116-116.
King RR, Patience J, Parker RJ, Parker RJ & Goodwin SP () Testing the universality of star formation - I. Multiplicity in nearby star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Loebl HC, Randel R, Goodwin SP & Matthai CC () Simulation studies of polymer translocation through a channel. Physical Review E, 67(4).

Book chapters

Goodwin S (2013) Star Formation, Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems (pp. 243-277). Springer Netherlands
Goodwin SP, Kroupa P, Goodman A & Burkert A (2007) The Fragmentation of Cores and the Initial Binary Population In Reipurth B, Jewitt D & Keil K (Ed.), Protostars and Planets V (pp. 133-147). Tucson: University of Arizona Press. View this article in WRRO

Conference proceedings

Negueruela I, Clark JS, Ritchie BW & Goodwin SP (2015) Westerlund 1: monolithic formation of a starburst cluster. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, Vol. 12(S316) (pp 159-160)
Park S-M, Goodwin SP & Kim SS (2015) Initial Dynamical Evolution of Star Clusters with Tidal Field. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, Vol. 12(S316) (pp 261-262)
Goodwin S (2014) Working with Ant Whitworth (pp 13-14)
Holman K, Walch SK, Goodwin S & Whitworth AP (2014) Mapping the Present-Day Prestellar Core Mass Function into the Stellar IMF (pp 309-315)
(2014) The Labyrinth of Star Formation
Carraro G, Grijs RD, Elmegreen B, Minniti D, Goodwin S, Stetson P, Geisler D & Anthony-Twarog B (2013) DIVISION VII: COMMISSION 37: STAR CLUSTERS AND ASSOCIATIONS. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, Vol. 10(T28B) (pp 128-131)
Hubber DA, Allison RJ, Smith R & Goodwin SP (2012) Hybrid SPH and N-body Simulations of Star Clusters. ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL ASTROPHYSICS: METHODS, TOOLS AND OUTCOMES, Vol. 453 (pp 215-+)
Yusof N, Kassim HA, Hirschi R, Crowther PA, Schnurr O, Parker RJ & Goodwin SP (2010) Life and death of very massive stars. Proceedings of Science
Goodwin SP (2010) Star formation simulations: caveats. HIGHLIGHTS OF ASTRONOMY, VOL 15, Vol. 15 (pp 793-793)
Whitworth A, Stamatellos D, Walch S, Kaplan M, Goodwin S, Hubber D & Parker R (2009) The formation of brown dwarfs. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, Vol. 5(S266) (pp 264-271)
Parmentier G, Goodwin SP, Kroupa P & Baumgardt H (2009) Gas removal and the initial mass function of star clusters. ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE, Vol. 324(2-4) (pp 327-332)
Goodwin SP (2009) The effect of the dynamical state of clusters on gas expulsion and infant mortality. ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE, Vol. 324(2-4) (pp 259-263)
de Grijs R & Goodwin SP (2009) Star cluster evolution in the Magellanic Clouds revisited. MAGELLANIC SYSTEM: STARS, GAS, AND GALAXIES, Vol. 4(256) (pp 311-316)
Stamatellos D, Whitworth AP & Goodwin SP (2005) Observational characteristics of dense cores with deeply embedded young protostars. Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol. 326(10) (pp 882-885)

Preprints

Parker RJ, Goodwin SP & Diamond JL (2025) Can planet-planet binaries survive in star-forming regions?, arXiv.
Singh-Bal SSK, Blaylock-Squibbs GA, Parker RJ & Goodwin SP (2024) Deviations from the universal Initial Mass Function in binary star clusters.
Arnold B, Goodwin SP & Wright NJ (2020) The velocity structure of Cygnus OB2, arXiv.
Pomohaci R, Oudmaijer RD & Goodwin SP (2019) A pilot survey of the binarity of Massive Young Stellar Objects with $K$ band adaptive optics, arXiv.
Arnold B, Goodwin SP, Griffiths DW & Parker RJ (2017) How do binary clusters form?, arXiv.
Rawiraswattana K, Hubber DA & Goodwin SP (2016) Discs in misaligned binary systems.
Carraro G, de Grijs R, Elmegreen B, Anthony-Twarog B, Geisler D, Goodwin S, Stetson P & Minniti D (2015) IAU Commission 37 "Star Clusters and Associations" Legacy report, arXiv.
Parker RJ & Goodwin SP (2015) Comparisons between different techniques for measuring mass segregation, arXiv.
Kouwenhoven MBN, Goodwin SP, de Grijs R, Rose M & Kim SS (2014) How does a low-mass cut-off in the stellar IMF affect the evolution of young star clusters?, arXiv.
Wright NJ, Parker RJ, Goodwin SP & Drake JJ (2013) Constraints on Massive Star Formation: Cygnus OB2 was always an Association, arXiv.
de Grijs R, Goodwin SP & Anders P (2013) No compelling evidence of significant early star cluster disruption in the Large Magellanic Cloud, arXiv.
Hubber DA, Falle SAEG & Goodwin SP (2013) Convergence of AMR and SPH simulations - I. Hydrodynamical resolution and convergence tests.
Goodwin SP (2012) Binary mass ratios: system mass not primary mass, arXiv.
Parker RJ & Goodwin SP (2012) The same, but different: Stochasticity in binary destruction, arXiv.
Bressert E, Bastian N, Evans CJ, Sana H, Hénault-Brunet V, Goodwin SP, Parker RJ, Gieles M, Bestenlehner JM, Vink JS , Taylor WD et al (2012) The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey IV: Candidates for isolated high-mass star formation in 30 Doradus, arXiv.
Kouwenhoven MBN, Goodwin SP, Davies MB, Parker RJ, Kroupa P & Malmberg D (2011) The origin of very wide binary stars, arXiv.
Parker RJ, Goodwin SP & Allison RJ (2011) The evolution of binary populations in cool, clumpy star clusters, arXiv.
Parker RJ & Goodwin SP (2010) The dynamical evolution of very-low mass binaries in open clusters, arXiv.
Crowther PA, Schnurr O, Hirschi R, Yusof N, Parker RJ, Goodwin SP & Kassim HA (2010) The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150 Msun stellar mass limit, arXiv.
Thies I, Kroupa P, Goodwin SP, Stamatellos D & Whitworth AP (2010) Tidally induced brown dwarf and planet formation in circumstellar discs, arXiv.
Allison RJ, Goodwin SP, Parker RJ, Zwart SFP & de Grijs R (2010) The early dynamical evolution of cool, clumpy star clusters, arXiv.
Kouwenhoven MBN, Goodwin SP, Parker RJ, Davies MB, Malmberg D & Kroupa P (2010) The formation of very wide binaries during the star cluster dissolution phase, arXiv.
Goodwin SP (2009) Binaries in star clusters and the origin of the field stellar population, arXiv.
Kouwenhoven MBN, Goodwin SP, Parker RJ, Davies MB, Malmberg D & Kroupa P (2009) The origin of very wide binary systems, arXiv.
Kouwenhoven MBN & Goodwin SP (2009) What does the IMF really tell us about star formation?, arXiv.
Kouwenhoven MBN, Goodwin SP, Parker RJ, Davies MB, Malmberg D & Kroupa P (2009) The formation of very wide binaries, arXiv.
Allison RJ, Goodwin SP, Parker RJ, de Grijs R, Zwart SFP & Kouwenhoven MBN (2009) Dynamical mass segregation on a very short timescale, arXiv.
Parker RJ & Goodwin SP (2009) The role of cluster evolution in disrupting planetary systems and disks: the Kozai mechanism, arXiv.
Goodwin SP & Kouwenhoven MBN (2009) What does a universal IMF imply about star formation?, arXiv.
Allison RJ, Goodwin SP, Parker RJ, Zwart SFP, de Grijs R & Kouwenhoven MBN (2009) Using the minimum spanning tree to trace mass segregation, arXiv.
Kouwenhoven MBN, Brown AGA, Goodwin SP, Zwart SFP & Kaper L (2008) Pairing mechanisms for binary stars, arXiv.
Kouwenhoven MBN, Brown AGA, Goodwin SP, Zwart SFP & Kaper L (2008) Exploring the consequences of pairing algorithms for binary stars, arXiv.
de Grijs R, Kouwenhoven MBN & Goodwin SP (2008) What do dynamical cluster masses really tell us about dynamics?, arXiv.
de Grijs R & Goodwin SP (2008) Star cluster evolution in the Magellanic Clouds revisited, arXiv.
Bastian N, Gieles M, Goodwin SP, Trancho G, Smith LJ, Konstantopoulos I & Efremov Y (2008) The Early Expansion of Cluster Cores, arXiv.
de Grijs R, Goodwin SP, Kouwenhoven MBN & Kroupa P (2008) Open cluster stability and the effects of binary stars, arXiv.
Goodwin SP (2008) The effect of the dynamical state of clusters on gas expulsion and infant mortality, arXiv.
Parmentier G, Goodwin SP, Kroupa P & Baumgardt H (2008) The shape of the initial cluster mass function: what it tells us about the local star formation efficiency, arXiv.
Goodwin SP, Nutter D, Kroupa P, Ward-Thompson D & Whitworth AP (2007) The relationship between the prestellar core mass function and the stellar initial mass function, arXiv.
de Grijs R & Goodwin SP (2007) Star cluster "infant mortality" in the Small Magellanic Cloud (Redivivus), arXiv.
Parker RJ & Goodwin SP (2007) Do O-stars form in isolation?, arXiv.
Goodwin SP & Whitworth A (2007) Brown dwarf formation by binary disruption, arXiv.
Goodwin SP & Bastian N (2006) Gas expulsion and the destruction of massive young clusters, arXiv.
Bastian N & Goodwin SP (2006) Dynamical Masses of Young Star Clusters: Constraints on the Stellar IMF and Star-Formation Efficiency, arXiv.
Whitworth AP & Goodwin SP (2005) The formation of brown dwarfs, arXiv.
Clark JS, Negueruela I, Crowther PA & Goodwin SP (2005) On the massive stellar population of the Super Star Cluster Westerlund 1, arXiv.

Research group

Astrophysics Research Cluster

Teaching interests: I teach several astronomy courses: 'Our Evolving Universe' (PHY111), 'Extrasolar Planets and Astrobiology' (PHY229), and 'Star formation and Evolution (PHY404 with Paul Crowther). I also supervise 3rd and 4th year projects, run first year induction, am a personal tutor and PhD mentor.