Date/Time
Date(s) - 15/10/2008
3:20 pm - 4:20 pm

Title: Making Stars and Galaxies with Numerical Cosmological Hydrodynamics

Speaker: Dr. Tom Abel

Institute: Stanford University

Location: ABB 102

Description:

In the last two years we have added new hydro solvers including MHD and relativistic ones, coupled adaptive ray tracing based radiation transport, a novel robust kinetic rate equations solver, accreting sink particles, and a new streaming format to the enzo code. I will discuss a variety of examples of astrophysical application we have been addressing with this new framework. In
particular, I’ll show the build up the first galaxies, how the first stars start reionization, amplification of magnetic fields in small galaxies as well some work on understanding feedback physics in nearby star forming regions.