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Projects
Below please find a summary of some of our ongoing research projects. Detailed information for other projects can be found on our wiki at http://howdy.physics.nyu.edu/index.php/Projects.
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Our group uses our parallel supercomputer to investigate astrophysical
phenomena by way of numerical simulations. We are currently
interested in relativistic fluid and plasma dynamics relevant for the
collapse and explosion of massive stars and the formation and growth
of black holes. Our powerful computing cluster "ria" has 400
processors and nearly a terabyte of memory and is capable of running
high resolution 3D simulations.
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We provide realistic mock-catalogs of cosmic rays above 40 EeV, for a pure proton composition, assuming their sources are a random subset of ordinary galaxies in a simulated, volume-limited survey, the catalogs described herein are available for downloading from http://cosmo.nyu.edu/mockUHECR.html.
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The Pierre Auger Observatory is the world's largest Cosmic Ray detector, located in Malargue, Argentina. It is used to study the extremely rare ultrahigh energy cosmic rays, whose energies are 106 - 108 times larger than the highest energies achieved in human accelerators.
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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is mapping one quarter of the of sky with unprecedented depth, wavelength coverage, and spectroscopic follow up.
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SENECA is a cosmic ray air shower simulation code, which uses cascade equations to speed up the computation.
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We are building an "astrometry engine" to create correct, standards-based astrometric headers for every useful astronomical image ever taken, past and future, in any state of archival disarray.
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The New York Schools Cosmic Particle Telescope Project aims to create a
next-generation astrophysical observatory in New York City, distributed among hundreds or thousands of schools and other sites.
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Projects by undergraduate students
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