Great experience giving a public talk at Alden Planetarium (Worcester, MA) this weekend about How to Make a Galaxy in a Supercomputer. Thanks to the organizers of the EcoTarium Astronomy Speaker Series and to everyone for the super interesting questions, specially the youngest attendees (5-7 years old?) wondering about the difference between the formation of elliptical and spiral galaxies, or how supermassive black holes move around in galaxies in the early universe!
Amazing representation of UConn Computational Galaxy Formation at the AAS meeting in New Orleans! Congratulations to Jose Cevallos, Jonathan Mercedes-Feliz, and Matt Gebhardt for their presentations this week!
Congratulations to Jonathan Mercedes-Feliz for a beautiful paper in the arXiv today!
Check out our new FORGE’d in FIRE papers! Building on our previous cosmological hyper-refinement simulations with sub-pc resolution and the STARFORGE model for individual star formation, these are the first cosmological radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations self-consistently modeling the dominant physical processes from cosmological (~100 Mpc) scales down to the accretion disk of the central supermassive black hole, resolving the end of star formation and predicting strongly magnetized and turbulent accretion disks unlike many previous models.
Big congrats to Rachel Cleveland and Jose Cevallos on being named new McNair Scholars at the annual ceremony!!!
Jose Cevallos presented his research on the interplay of black hole accretion and feedback in Seyfert galaxies using FIRE simulations at the Poster Session of the CAPS Research Summer 2023. Congratulations to Jose and his stellar mentor Jonathan Mercedes-Feliz for their fantastic work this summer!
Congratulations to Matthew Gebhardt on his new paper investigating the spread of baryons over large scales owing to galaxy formation feedback using thousands of simulations from the CAMELS project!!
Thanks to Daisuke Nagai for organizing a wonderful CAMELS-CGM meeting at Yale University, and thanks everyone for the super productive week!
The CAMELS simulations appeared in a new trailer made by the European Space Agency advertising the EUCLID mission, which will create a 3D map of the Universe to investigate the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
Jonathan Mercedes-Feliz presented his Positive vs. Negative AGN feedback results at the AGN Winds on the Chesapeake conference!
