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Numerical effects are known to plague adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) codes when treating massive particles, e.g. representing massive black holes (MBHs). In an evolving background, they can experience strong, spurious perturbations and then…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Alessandro Lupi , Francesco Haardt , Massimo Dotti

We ported to the GPU with CUDA the Astrometric Verification Unit-Global Sphere Reconstruction (AVU-GSR) Parallel Solver developed for the ESA Gaia mission, by optimizing a previous OpenACC porting of this application. The code aims to find,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-03 Valentina Cesare , Ugo Becciani , Alberto Vecchiato , Mario Gilberto Lattanzi , Fabio Pitari , Marco Aldinucci , Beatrice Bucciarelli

We present an implementation of an adaptive ray tracing (ART) module in the Athena hydrodynamics code that accurately and efficiently handles the radiative transfer involving multiple point sources on a three-dimensional Cartesian grid. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Jeong-Gyu Kim , Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker , M. Aaron Skinner

We report on a new 3D numerical code designed to solve the Einstein equations for general vacuum spacetimes. This code is based on the standard 3+1 approach using cartesian coordinates. We discuss the numerical techniques used in developing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Peter Anninos , Karen Camarda , Joan Masso , Edward Seidel , Wai-Mo Suen , John Towns

We present the newly developed code, GAMER (GPU-accelerated Adaptive MEsh Refinement code), which has adopted a novel approach to improve the performance of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) astrophysical simulations by a large factor with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-08 Hsi-Yu Schive , Yu-Chih Tsai , Tzihong Chiueh

We present a new numerical code, X-ECHO, for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) in dynamical spacetimes. This is aimed at studying astrophysical situations where strong gravity and magnetic fields are both supposed to play an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 N. Bucciantini , L. Del Zanna

We report our new code (named SACRA) for numerical relativity simulations in which an adaptive mesh refinement algorithm is implemented. In this code, the Einstein equations are solved in the BSSN formalism with a fourth-order finite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-23 Tetsuro Yamamoto , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

To assess how future progress in gravitational microlensing computation at high optical depth will rely on both hardware and software solutions, we compare a direct inverse ray-shooting code implemented on a graphics processing unit (GPU)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 N. F. Bate , C. J. Fluke , B. R. Barsdell , H. Garsden , G. F. Lewis

We propose a measurement-based FTQC (MB-FTQC) architecture for high-connectivity platforms such as trapped ions and neutral atoms. The key idea is to use verified logical ancillas combined with Knill's error-correcting teleportation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Yohei Ibe , Yutaka Hirano , Yasuo Ozu , Toru Kawakubo , Keisuke Fujii

We discuss refinement criteria for the Berger-Rigoutsos (block-based) refinement algorithm in our numerical relativity code GR-Athena++ in the context of binary black hole merger simulations. We compare three different strategies: the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-29 Alireza Rashti , Maitraya Bhattacharyya , David Radice , Boris Daszuta , William Cook , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

On the path to exascale the landscape of computer device architectures and corresponding programming models has become much more diverse. While various low-level performance portable programming models are available, support at the…

Next-generation gravitational wave detectors such as Cosmic Explorer, the Einstein Telescope, and LISA, demand highly accurate and extensive gravitational wave (GW) catalogs to faithfully extract physical parameters from observed signals.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-20 Samuel D. Tootle , Leonardo R. Werneck , Thiago Assumpção , Terrence Pierre Jacques , Zachariah B. Etienne

GWtuna is a fast gravitational-wave search prototype built on Optuna (optimisation software library) and JAX (accelerator-orientated array computation library) [1, 2]. Using Optuna, we introduce black box optimisation algorithms and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-06 Susanna Green , Andrew Lundgren

We describe implementation and tests of sink particle algorithms in the Eulerian grid-based code Athena. Introduction of sink particles enables long-term evolution of systems in which localized collapse occurs, and it is impractical (or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Hao Gong , Eve C. Ostriker

The Accurate Particle Tracer (APT) code is designed for large-scale particle simulations on dynamical systems. Based on a large variety of advanced geometric algorithms, APT possesses long-term numerical accuracy and stability, which are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-10-25 Yulei Wang , Jian Liu , Hong Qin , Zhi Yu ans Yicun Yao

We present a hybrid code combining the OpenMP-parallel tree code VINE with an algorithmic chain regularization scheme. The new code, called "rVINE", aims to significantly improve the accuracy of close encounters of massive bodies with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 S. J. Karl , S. J. Aarseth , T. Naab , M. G. Haehnelt , R. Spurzem

Representing simultaneous black hole accretion during a merger, binary active galactic nuclei (AGNs) could provide valuable observational constraints to models of galaxy mergers and AGN triggering. High-resolution radio interferometer…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-09 Hai Fu , J. M. Wrobel , A. D. Myers , S. G. Djorgovski , Lin Yan

Recent demonstrations on specialized benchmarks have reignited excitement for quantum computers, yet whether they can deliver an advantage for practical real-world problems remains an open question. Here, we show that probabilistic…

We present SphericalNR, a new framework for the publicly available Einstein Toolkit that numerically solves the Einstein field equations coupled to the equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) in a 3+1 split of…

The Advanced Telescope for High ENergy Astrophysics (Athena) is the X-ray observatory mission selected by ESA within its Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme to address the Hot and Energetic Universe scientific theme. The ESO-Athena Synergy…