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We discuss recent advances made in modelling the complex magnetohydrodynamics of the Sun using our anelastic spherical harmonics (ASH) code. We have conducted extensive 3--D simulations of compressible convection in rotating spherical…

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The ANTARES radiation hydrodynamics code is capable of simulating the solar granulation in detail unequaled by direct observation. We introduce a state-of-the-art numerical tool to the solar physics community and demonstrate its…

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We present Cholla (Computational Hydrodynamics On ParaLLel Architectures), a new three-dimensional hydrodynamics code that harnesses the power of graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate astrophysical simulations. Cholla models the…

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Multidimensional hydrodynamical simulations have transformed the study of stellar interiors over the past few decades. Most codes developed during that time use the anelastic approximation, which fixes the thermal structure of simulations…

High-resolution cross-correlation spectroscopy (HRCCS) is a technique for detecting the atmospheres of close-in planets using the change in the projected planet velocity over a few hours. To date, this technique has most often been applied…

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Stars on the lower main sequence (F-type through M-type) have substantial convective envelopes beneath their stellar photospheres. Convection in these regions can couple with rotation to build global-scale structures that may be observable…

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We present the first non-LTE, co-moving frame molecular line calculations of a star-forming cluster simulated using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), from which we derive high-resolution synthetic observations. We have resampled a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 David Rundle , Tim J. Harries , David M. Acreman , Matthew R. Bate

We present a review of the TORUS radiation transfer and hydrodynamics code. TORUS uses a 1-D, 2-D or3-D adaptive mesh refinement scheme to store and manipulate the state variables, and solves the equation of radiative transfer using Monte…

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We present SEREN, a new hybrid Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and N-body code designed to simulate astrophysical processes such as star and planet formation. It is written in Fortran 95/2003 and has been parallelised using OpenMP. SEREN is…

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A weakly magnetized neutron star (NS) undergoing disk accretion should release about a half of its power in a compact region known as the accretion boundary layer. Latitudinal spread of the accreted matter and efficient radiative cooling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-08 Aleksandr Rusakov , Pavel Abolmasov , Omer Bromberg

The surface winds of Jupiter and Saturn are primarily zonal. Each planet exhibits strong prograde equatorial flow flanked by multiple alternating zonal winds at higher latitudes. The depth to which these flows penetrate has long been…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 T. Gastine , M. Heimpel , J. Wicht

Recent photometric observations of massive stars have identified a low-frequency power excess which appears as stochastic low-frequency variability in light curve observations. We present the oscillation properties of high resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-01 William Thompson , Falk Herwig , Paul R. Woodward , Huaqing Mao , Pavel Denissenkov , Dominic M. Bowman , Simon Blouin

Numerical simulations of magneto-convection have greatly expanded our understanding of stellar interiors and stellar magnetism. Recently, fully compressible hydrodynamical simulations of full-star models have demonstrated the feasibility of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 José R. Canivete Cuissa , Romain Teyssier

We integrate for the first time the hydrodynamic Hall-Vinen-Bekarevich-Khalatnikov equations of motion of a $^{1}S_{0}$-paired neutron superfluid in a rotating spherical shell, using a pseudospectral collocation algorithm coupled with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Peralta , A. Melatos , M. Giacobello , A. Ooi

We present the publicly available moving-mesh hydrodynamics code Sprout. Sprout solves the equations of ideal hydrodynamics on an expanding Cartesian mesh. The expanding mesh can follow fluid outflows for several orders of magnitude with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-10 Soham Mandal , Paul C. Duffell

The development of parallel supercomputers allows today the detailed study of the collapse and the fragmentation of prestellar cores with increasingly accurate numerical simulations. Thanks to the advances in sub-millimeter observations, a…

The stellar luminosity and depth of the convective envelope vary rapidly with mass for G- and K-type main sequence stars. In order to understand how these properties influence the convective turbulence, differential rotation, and meridional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Sean P. Matt , Olivier Do Cao , B. P. Brown , A. S. Brun

Contemporary three-dimensional physics-based simulations of the solar convection zone disagree with observations. They feature differential rotation substantially different from the true rotation inferred by solar helioseismology and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-23 Parag Gupta , David MacTaggart , Radostin D. Simitev

SPEC_PULS describes a suite of computer programs to simulate the emergent spectrum from a radially-pulsating star. It combines a Christy-type non-linear pulsation code with classical stellar atmosphere codes. The principal aim is to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 C. Simon Jeffery

We present the results of three-dimensional simulations of the deep convective envelope of a young (10 Myr) one-solar-mass star, obtained with the Anelastic Spherical Harmonic code. Since young stars are known to be faster rotators than…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-03 Jérôme Ballot , Allan Sacha Brun , Sylvaine Turck-Chièze