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Soft X-ray emission from neutron stars affords powerful diagnostic tools for uncovering their surface and interior properties, as well as their geometric configurations. In the atmospheres of neutron stars, the presence of magnetic fields…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-29 Hoa Dinh Thi , Matthew G. Baring , Kun Hu , Alice K. Harding , Joseph A. Barchas

We present MuMax, a general-purpose micromagnetic simulation tool running on Graphical Processing Units (GPUs). MuMax is designed for high performance computations and specifically targets large simulations. In that case speedups of over a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Arne Vansteenkiste , Ben Van de Wiele

Large angular scale surveys in the absence of atmosphere are essential for measuring the primordial $B$-mode power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Since this proposed measurement is about three to four orders of magnitude…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Y. Takase , L. Vacher , H. Ishino , G. Patanchon , L. Montier , S. L. Stever , K. Ishizaka , Y. Nagano , W. Wang , J. Aumont , K. Aizawa , A. Anand , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , M. Bersanelli , M. Bortolami , T. Brinckmann , E. Calabrese , P. Campeti , E. Carinos , A. Carones , F. J. Casas , K. Cheung , L. Clermont , F. Columbro , A. Coppolecchia , F. Cuttaia , P. de Bernardis , T. de Haan , E. de la Hoz , S. Della Torre , P. Diego-Palazuelos , G. D'Alessandro , H. K. Eriksen , J. Errard , F. Finelli , U. Fuskeland , G. Galloni , M. Galloway , M. Gervasi , T. Ghigna , S. Giardiello , C. Gimeno-Amo , E. Gjerløw , R. González González , A. Gruppuso , M. Hazumi , S. Henrot-Versillé , L. T. Hergt , K. Ikuma , K. Kohri , L. Lamagna , M. Lattanzi , C. Leloup , M. Lembo , F. Levrier , A. I. Lonappan , M. López-Caniego , G. Luzzi , B. Maffei , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , F. T. Matsuda , T. Matsumura , S. Micheli , M. Migliaccio , M. Monelli , G. Morgante , B. Mot , R. Nagata , T. Namikawa , A. Novelli , K. Odagiri , S. Oguri , R. Omae , L. Pagano , D. Paoletti , F. Piacentini , M. Pinchera , G. Polenta , L. Porcelli , N. Raffuzzi , M. Remazeilles , A. Ritacco , M. Ruiz-Granda , Y. Sakurai , D. Scott , Y. Sekimoto , M. Shiraishi , G. Signorelli , R. M. Sullivan , H. Takakura , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , B. van Tent , P. Vielva , I. K. Wehus , B. Westbrook , G. Weymann-Despres , E. J. Wollack , M. Zannoni , Y. Zhou

Improved polarization measurements at frequencies below 70 GHz with degree-level angular resolution are crucial for advancing our understanding of the Galactic synchrotron radiation and the potential polarized anomalous microwave emission…

We present analysis of the normalised 21-cm bispectrum from fully-numerical simulations of intergalactic-medium heating by stellar sources and high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXB) during the cosmic dawn. Lyman-$\alpha$ coupling is assumed to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-29 Catherine A. Watkinson , Sambit K. Giri , Hannah E. Ross , Keri L. Dixon , Ilian T. Iliev , Garrelt Mellema , Jonathan R. Pritchard

Depolarization of diffuse radio synchrotron emission is classified in terms of wavelength-independent and wavelength-dependent depolarization in the context of regular magnetic fields and of both isotropic and anisotropic turbulent magnetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-05 Carl Shneider , Marijke Haverkorn , Andrew Fletcher , Anvar Shukurov

General relativistic force-free electrodynamics is one possible plasma-limit employed to analyze energetic outflows in which strong magnetic fields are dominant over all inertial phenomena. The amazing images of black hole shadows from the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 J. F. Mahlmann , M. A. Aloy , V. Mewes , P. Cerdá-Durán

We derive the synchrotron distribution in the Milky Way disk from HII region absorption observations over -40{\deg} < l < 40{\deg} at six frequencies of 76.2, 83.8, 91.5, 99.2, 106.9, and 114.6 MHz with the GaLactic and Extragalactic…

We report on the design and estimated performance of a balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimeter called HX-POL. The experiment uses a combination of Si and Cadmium Zinc Telluride detectors to measure the polarization of 50 keV-400 keV X-rays…

Numerical geodynamo simulations with parameters close to an Earth-like regime would be of great interest for understanding the dynamics of the Earth's liquid outer core and the associated geomagnetic field. Such simulations are far too…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-02 Krasymyr Tretiak , Meredith Plumley , Michael Calkins , Steven Tobias

We present a novel method for interpreting observations of high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) based on a combination of spectroscopic data and numerical results from a radiation hydrodynamic model of stellar winds. We calculate synthetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Jan Čechura , Saeqa Dil Vrtilek , Petr Hadrava

We describe a new hybrid framework to model non-thermal spectral signatures from highly energetic particles embedded in a large-scale classical or relativistic MHD flow. Our method makes use of \textit{Lagrangian} particles moving through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Bhargav Vaidya , Andrea Mignone , Gianluigi Bodo , Paola Rossi , Silvano Massaglia

We present the results of a polarization study based upon relativistic magnetohydrodynamic modelling of jets running into hydrostatic, spherically symmetric cluster atmospheres. For the first time in a numerical simulation, we derive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-14 Michael Stimpson , Martin Hardcastle , Martin Krause

We study the performance of an automated hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) approach for conditional simulation of a recently proposed, single-parameter Gibbs Markov random field (Gibbs MRF). The MRF is based on a modified version of the planar…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Milan Žukovič , Dionissios T. Hristopulos

We study symplectic numerical integration of mechanical systems with a Hamiltonian specified in non-canonical coordinates and its application to guiding-center motion of charged plasma particles in magnetic confinement devices. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Christopher G. Albert , Sergei V. Kasilov , Winfried Kernbichler

Microstructures forming during ternary eutectic directional solidification processes have significant influence on the macroscopic mechanical properties of metal alloys. For a realistic simulation, we use the well established…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Martin Bauer , Johannes Hötzer , Philipp Steinmetz , Marcus Jainta , Marco Berghoff , Florian Schornbaum , Christian Godenschwager , Harald Köstler , Britta Nestler , Ulrich Rüde

In recent years, exciton-polariton microcavity arrays have emerged as a promising semiconductor-based platform for analogue simulations of model Hamiltonians and topological effects. To realize experimentally a variety of Hamiltonians and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Ioannis Georgakilas , Rafał Mirek , Darius Urbonas , Michael Forster , Ullrich Scherf , Rainer F. Mahrt , Thilo Stöferle

Polarized synchrotron emission is a fundamental process in high-energy astrophysics, particularly in the environments around black holes and pulsars. Accurate modeling of this emission requires precise computation of the emission,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-06 Jordy Davelaar

Results of a three-dimensional, flux-driven, electrostatic, global, two-fluid turbulence simulation for a 5-field period stellarator with an island divertor are presented. The numerical simulation is carried out with the GBS code, recently…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 A. J. Coelho , J. Loizu , P. Ricci , M. Giacomin

The family of Multiscale Hybrid-Mixed (MHM) finite element methods has received considerable attention from the mathematics and engineering community in the last few years. The MHM methods allow solving highly heterogeneous problems on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Antonio Tadeu A. Gomes , Weslley S. Pereira , Frederic Valentin , Diego Paredes