Professor of Physics University of California, Santa Cruz University of California, Santa Cruz Columbia | |
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Email: | macfadyen AT nyu.edu |
Personal Home Page: | http://cosmo.nyu.edu/aim |
Office: | 1044 |
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I work on models of the explosive death of massive stars and on the growth of black holes from stellar collapse and at the centers of galaxies. I make use of parallel computers to simulate the flow of gas in astrophysical environments where strong shock waves, ultra-relativistic speeds, and magnetic fields as well as neutrino emission and nuclear reactions are important. | |
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See ADS or SPIRES for an up-to-date publication list. "Collapsars: Gamma-Ray Bursts and Explosions in `Failed Supernovae," MacFadyen, A. I.; Woosley, S. E. The Astrophysical Journal, 524, 262 1999. "Supernovae, Jets and Collapsars," MacFadyen, A. I.; Woosley, S. E.; Heger, A. The Astrophysical Journal, 550, 410 2001. "RAM: A Relativistic Adaptive Mesh Refinement Hydrodynamics Code," Zhang, Weiqun; MacFadyen, Andrew I. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 164, 255 2006. "Stellar Explosions by Magnetic Towers" Uzdensky, Dmitri A.; MacFadyen, Andrew I. The Astrophysical Journal, 647, 1192 2006. "An Eccentric Circumbinary Accretion Disk and the Detection of Binary Massive Black Holes," MacFadyen, Andrew I.; Milosavljevic, Milos The Astrophysical Journal, 672, 83 2008. |
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