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Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
Committees and Sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxii
Part I. Stars: Formation
A Decade of ‘Realistic’ Star Formation Simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3
C. Clarke
Combined Feedbacks of Magnetic Field and Radiative Transfer on Dense Core
Collapse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
B. Commerçon, P. Hennebelle, E. Audit, G. Chabrier, R. Teyssier, and Th.
Henning
Towards Understanding Simulated Feedback in AMR and SPH Codes and the
Multi-Phase Nature of the ISM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
N. L. Mitchell, R. G. Bower, T. Theuns, and E. I. Vorobyov
Molecular Cloud Disruption and Chemical Enrichment of the ISM Caused by
Massive Star Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
K. M. Fierlinger, A. Burkert, R. Diehl, C. Dobbs, D. H. Hartmann, M. Krause,
E. Ntormousi, and R. Voss
Importance of the Initial Conditions for Star Formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
P. Girichidis, C. Federrath, R. Banerjee, and R. Klessen
Modeling Star-Forming Regions using a 3D Molecular Transport Code . . . . . . 33
R. M. Loughnane, M. P. Redman, and E. R. Keto
Part II. Stars: Fundamental Physics
Binary Neutron Star Mergers Naturally Form Jets that can Power Short GammaRay Bursts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
L. Rezzolla
Magnetic Field Generation During the Formation of the First Stars . . . . . . . . 51
S. Sur, C. Federrath, D. Schleicher, R. Banerjee, and R. Klessen
Numerical Simulations of Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection with Galerkin Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
O. Zanotti, and M. Dumbser
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Part III. Stars: Evolution
2-D Modeling of the Variability of the Solar Interior for Climate Studies . . . . . 61
S. Sofia, L. H. Li, F. Spada, and P. Ventura
Numerical Simulations of Magnetic Relaxation in Rotating Stellar Radiation Zones 69
V. Duez
Simulating the Circum-stellar Environment of Supernova and GRB Progenitors
by Combining Stellar Evolution Models and Hydrodynamical Code . . . . 75
C. Georgy, R. Walder, and D. Folini
Part IV. Supernovae and Progenitors
Towards the Core-Collapse Supernova Explosion Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . 81
C. Y. Cardall, E. Endeve, R. D. Budiardja, P. Marronetti, and A. Mezzacappa
Explosion and Remnant Systematics of Neutrino-driven Supernovae for Spherically Symmetric Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
M. Ugliano, H.-T. Janka, A. Arcones, and A. Marek
Three-dimensional Core-collapse Supernova Simulations on the Yin-Yang Grid . 95
A. Wongwathanarat, H.-T. Janka, and E. Müller
Type Ia Supernovae and the DD Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
J. Isern, E. Garcı́a–Berro, and P. Lorén–Aguilar
Three-dimensional Simulations of Thermonuclear Detonation with α-network:
Numerical Method and Preliminary Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
A. Khokhlov, I. Dominguez, C. Bacon, B. Clifford, E. Baron, P. Hoeflich, K.
Krisciunas, N. Suntzeff, and L. Wang
Multidimensional Simulations of Thermonuclear Supernovae from the First Stars 115
K. J. Chen, A. Heger, and A. Almgren
Incomplete Carbon Detonations in Thermonuclear Supernovae . . . . . . . . . . 119
I. Domı́nguez, and A. Khokhlov
White Dwarf Mergers and the Origin of R Coronae Borealis Stars . . . . . . . . 123
P. Lorén–Aguilar, R. Longland, J. José, E. Garcı́a–Berro, L. G. Althaus, and
J. Isern
Part V. Advanced Tools in Computational Astrophysics
Simulations of Dense Stellar Systems with the AMUSE Software Toolkit . . . . 129
S. McMillan, S. Portegies Zwart, A. van Elteren, and A. Whitehead
VOGCLUSTERS: An Example of DAME web application . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
M. Castellani, M. Brescia, E. Mancini, L. Pellecchia, and G. Longo
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GEAR : A Window on the World of Dwarf Galaxies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Y. Revaz, and P. Jablonka
NMAGIC Made-to-Measure Particle Models of Galaxies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
L. Morganti, and O. Gerhard
Turbulence Modelling and Stirring Mechanisms in the Cosmological Large-Scale
Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
L. Iapichino, W. Schmidt, J. C. Niemeyer, and J. Merklein
The Nonlinear Evolution of Large Scale Structures in Growing Neutrino Cosmologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
M. Baldi
Part VI. Compact Interacting Objects and Gravitational Waves
Physical Simulations for the Merger of Binary Neutron Stars in General Relativity 161
M. Shibata, K. Kiuchi, K. Kyutoku, and Y. Sekiguchi
Direct Numerical Simulations of the Quasi-interchange Instability in Astrophysical Jets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
A. Bonanno, and V. Urpin
Interacting Compact Binaries: Modeling Mass Transfer in Eccentricsystems . . . 175
R. P. Church, M. B. Davies, A. Bobrick, and C. A. Tout
Numerical Simulations of Binary Black Holes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
P. Marronetti, and W. Tichy
Recoiling Black Holes in Merging Galaxies: Relationship to AGN Lifetimes,
Starbursts, and the M-sigma Relation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
L. Blecha
A Fast Numerical Scheme for the Causal Relativistic Dissipative Hydrodynamics 191
M. Takamoto, and S. Inutsuka
Simulations of Electromagnetic Signals from Black Hole Mergers . . . . . . . . 195
G. Lodato
Part VII. Stellar Systems: N-body Problems
Use of Modern Numerical Methods and Hardware in N-body Problems . . . . . 201
S. Mikkola
N-Body Simulations of Star Clusters, Black Holes, and Their Host Systems using
BRIDGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
M. S. Fujii, M. Iwasawa, T. R. Saitoh, and S. Portegies Zwart
Hybrid SPH and N-Body Simulations of Star Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
D. A. Hubber, R. J. Allison, R. Smith, and S. P. Goodwin
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Globular Cluster Clumpy Tidal Tails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
M. Montuori, R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta, and A. Mastrobuono-Battisti
Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in High Performance Massively Parallel Direct N-Body Simulations on Large GPU Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
R. Spurzem, P. Berczik, S. Zhong, K. Nitadori, T. Hamada, I. Berentzen, and A.
Veles
Dry Mergers and the Size Evolution of Early-type Galaxies . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
C. Nipoti
The Formation of the Milky Way Nuclear Cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
A. Mastrobuono-Battisti, and R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta
Dynamics in Young Star Clusters: From Planets to Massive Stars . . . . . . . . . 241
C. Olczak, R. Spurzem, Th. Henning, T. Kaczmarek, S. Pfalzner, S. Harfst, and
S. Portegies Zwart
Part VIII. Astrophysical Fluid-Dynamics: Eulerian vs Lagrangian Schemes
Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics: Things I Wish my Mother Taught Me . . . . 249
D. Price
Hydrodynamic Simulations with the Godunov SPH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
S. Borgani, G. Murante, R. Brunino, and S.-H. Cha
Hydrodynamical Simulations of Galaxy Cluster Entropy Profiles . . . . . . . . . 263
D. Sijacki, M. Vogelsberger, D. Kereš, V. Springel, and L. Hernquist
Part IX. Galaxy Formation and Large Scale Structure
Spiral Structure Formation in Disk Galaxies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
E. D’Onghia, M. Vogelsberger, and L. Hernquist
Simulating Supersonic Turbulence in Galaxy Formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
E. Scannapieco, M. Brüggen, and L. Pan
Properties of the ISM in Disc Galaxies with Stellar Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . 277
C. Dobbs
AGN Feedback using AMR Cosmological Simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Y. Dubois, J. Devriendt, A. Slyz, and R. Teyssier
Baryon and Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect Properties of MareNostrum and MultiDark Simulated Clusters (MUSIC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
F. Sembolini, G. Yepes, and M. De Petris
Progress and Challenges in SPH Simulations of Disk Galaxy Formation: the
Combined Role of Resolution and the Star Formation Density Threshold . 289
L. Mayer
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Modeling the Hot Gaseous Halo in Galaxy Merger Simulations . . . . . . . . . . 301
B. P. Moster
Dark Satellites: How They Lost Their Baryons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
S. Nickerson, G. Stinson, H. .M. P. Couchman, J. Bailin, and J. Wadsley
The Injection and Feedback of Cosmic Rays in l Large-Scale Structures . . . . . 311
F. Vazza, M. Brüggen, C. Gheller, and G. Brunetti
Part X. New Technologies in Computational Astrophysics
Multi-physics Simulations using a Hierarchical Interchangeable Software Interface317
S. Portegies Zwart, S. McMillan, I. Pelupessy, and A. van Elteren
Bonsai: A GPU Tree-Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
J. Bédorf, E. Gaburov, and S. Portegies Zwart
GPU-Accelerated Monte Carlo Simulations of Dense Stellar Systems . . . . . . . 329
B. Pattabiraman, S. Umbreit, W. Liao, F. Rasio, V. Kalogera, and A. Choudhary
Part XI. Poster Contributions
The structure of H in Galactic Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
D. Acreman, C. Brunt, C. Dobbs, and K. Douglas
Dynamical Friction in Cuspy Galaxies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
M. Arca-Sedda, and R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta
E(A+M)PEC - An OpenCL Atomic & Molecular Plasma Emission Code For
Interstellar Medium Simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
M. A. de Avillez, E. Spitoni, and D. Breitschwerdt
A Non-Equilibrium Ionization Model of the Local and Loop I Bubbles - Tracing
the O Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
M. A. de Avillez, D. Breitschwerdt, E. Spitoni, and N. Carvalho
Observing Simulated Clusters: A Novel Virtual X-ray Telescope . . . . . . . . . 345
V. Biffi, K. Dolag, H. Böhringer, and G. Lemson
On Nuclear Matter Cores and Their Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
K. Boshkayev, M. Rotondo, and R. Ruffini
Searching for Data: Swarming Agent Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
D. P. Caputo, and R. Dolan
High Precision Simulations of the Evolution of a Super Star Cluster Around a
Massive Black Hole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta, and M. Spera
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Feeding a Disk: the Mechanical Mass Loss of Be Stars From a Numerical Point
of View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
S. Ekström, C. Georgy, A. Granada, A. Wyttenbach, and G. Meynet
The STructure Finder: Using Velocity Space to Identify Substructures in N-Body
Haloes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
P. J. Elahi, R. J. Thacker, and L. M. Widrow
Adaptive Gravitational Softening in GADGET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
F. Iannuzzi, and K. Dolag
Interaction Between Dark Matter Sub-Halos and Gaseous Galactic Disk . . . . . 361
R. Kannan, A. Macciò, A. Pasquali, B. P. Moster, and F. Walter
Simulations of Barred Galaxies in Triaxial Dark Matter Haloes: the Effects of Gas 363
R. E. G. Machado, E. Athanassoula, and S. Rodionov
The eEffect of AGN Feedback on the Brightest Cluster Elliptical Galaxies . . . . 365
D. Martizzi, R. Teyssier, and B. Moore
Global Mass Segregation in Hydrodynamical Simulations of Star Formation . . . 367
T. Maschberger, and C. J. Clarke
The Morphology and Pattern Speed of Spiral Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
D. Nelson, E. D’Onghia, and L. Hernquist
Classical Bulge Formation with P-DEVA, a Chemodynamical AP3 M-SPH Code . 371
A. Obreja, R. Domı́nguez-Tenreiro, F. Martı́nez-Serrano, M. Doménech-Moral,
and A. Serna
Dry Minor Mergers and Size Evolution of Early-type Galaxies in High Density
Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
T. Oogi, and A. Habe
Galaxy Cluster Mergers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
S. Planelles, and V. Quilis
Radiation Hydrodynamics of Core-Collapse Supernovae: the “Key” Asset for a
Self-Consistent Modelling of These Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
M. L. Pumo, and L. Zampieri
High Performance Astrophysics Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta, M. Arca-Sedda, A. Mastrobuono-Battisti, D. Punzo, and
M. Spera
Intracluster Medium Reheating by Relativistic Jets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
V. Quilis, M. Perucho, and J.M. Marti
Numerical Studies of the Accretion Disc Response to BH Recoil . . . . . . . . . 385
G. Rosotti, and G. Lodato
Numerical Simulations of Rotating Jets: Comparison with Observations . . . . . 389
F. Rubini, L. Maurri, G. Inghirami, and F. Bacciotti
Magnetically Driven Outflows During Massive Star Formation . . . . . . . . . . 391
D. Seifried, R. Banerjee, R. S. Klessen, D. Duffin, and R. E. Pudritz
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Scalable Parallel Algorithm for Solving the Collisionless Boltzmann – Poisson
System of Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
N. Snytnikov
The Sun as a Climate Driver: Modelling the Variability of the Solar Interior
Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
F. Spada, L. H. Li, S. Sofia and P. Ventura
The Role of Episodic Accretion in Low-mass Star Formation . . . . . . . . . . . 397
D. Stamatellos, D. Hubber, and A. Whitworth
Unsteady Motion In Self-gravitating Inhomogeneous Gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
R. R. Tagirova, and K. V. Krasnobaev
Software in the Investigation of Exposure: Jupiter and Mars to Solar Activity . . 401
V.E. Timofeev, S.N. Samsonov, and N.G. Skryabin
Jets from Young Massive Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
B. Vaidya, C. Fendt, H. Beuther, and O. Porth
Numerical Viscosity Effects and Turbulent Properties of the ICM in SPH Simulations of Galaxy Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
R. Valdarnini
Formation and Survivability of Massive Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs on
Wide Orbits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
E. I. Vorobyov, and S. Basu
Numerical Stellar Hydrodynamics and its Application to the Evolution of Galaxies409
E. I. Vorobyov, N. Mitchell, and G. Hensler
Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Preface
This conference was the sixth in a series of astronomy and astrophysics workshops and
conferences held in Cefalú, Sicily, and devoted to hot topics over the whole field of
modern astrophysics.
Motivation and Goals of this Conference
Modern ground-based and space telescopes are fundamental tools for the study of cosmos. However, without a deep understanding of the physical processes underneath,
telescopes alone cannot yield the whole comprehension of the physical universe that is
the main topic of astrophysics. Due to the complexity of involved physical phenomena,
from the atomic and molecular scales up to the large scales of the cosmic structures,
and due to the pervasive presence of gravity as fundamental engine acting on every
space length, this physical understanding comes, nowadays, mainly by the proper use
of massive simulations. This is made suitable by the concurrent progress of computing
machines and software.
Given this context, this conference is a little different from many others where
the accent was put on the computational part of scientific work related to astrophysics.
Actually, more than dealing with deep numerical and computational aspects in a specific subfield of astrophysics or cosmology, we intended to gather scientists who are
contemporarily at top of their fields on both the scientific side and that of numerical
and computational methods and techniques, showing also expertise in the use of modern hardware and software resources. These invited speakers were explicitely asked to
give presentations at a level to be understood by the, expectedly vast, audience. They
give 45 minutes reviews of the state of the art in various representative topics, which
are followed by both invited talks (30 minutes), examining in more detail some of the
topics presented, and talks (20 minutes) presented by people selected by the Scientific
Organizing Committee upon evaluation of the abstracts presented. The Scientific Committee privileged the scientific quality and, after, tried to favor presentations by young
researchers. Some of them had here the first chance to present to an international audience the results of their research, always in connection with the discussion of methods
and tools which conducted to the results. To help the participation of young researchers,
a wide number of posters were presented covering the whole set of relevant topics.
The conference is organized in various Sessions, covering the study of astrophysics over the various scales from stars up to galaxies and large scale structure of
the universe. There are also two specific Sessions dedicated to Advanced tools in computational astrophysics and to New Technologies in computational astrophysics. The
Sessions are on:
• Stars: formation; • Stars: Fundamental Physics; • Stars: Evolution; • Supernovae and
Progenitors; • Compact Interacting Objects and Gravitational Waves; • Stellar Systems:
N-body problems; • Galaxy Formation and Large Scale Structure; • Advanced tools in
computational astrophysics; • New Technologies in computational astrophysics.
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Awards and prizes
We like to mention here the names of the five young researchers (less than 33 years old)
that were awarded a prize for the quality of the Abstract of their submitted talk, in a
competition preceding the workshop. They were allowed to present their oral contributions and received a Diploma and a money prize on the last day of the Workshop. Their
names are:
– Ke-Jung Chen, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, U.S.A.,
– Benoit Commerçon, MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany,
– Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti, Dep. of Physics, Sapienza, Univ. of Roma, Italy,
– Franco Vazza, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany,
– Annop Wongwathanarat, MPA, Garching, Germany.
The “City of Cefalú” Prize for Astronomy was awarded in 2011 to prof. David
Arnett for his career. For personal reasons, prof. Arnett could not come to the conference to receive the prize in person. As a consequence, the prize will be awarded during
the next Cefalú Workshop.
Acknowledgements
The success of this conference was possible thanks to the help of a large number of
people and Organizations. First of all we cite the Scientific Organizing Committee for
the selection of scientific contributions and the Local Organizing Committee for the
practical organization. Particular thanks are due to M. Castellani and A. MastrobuonoBattisti for their assistance during the talks and for the interaction with participants,
helping to solve the, unavoidable, many practical problems occurring during the presentations. G. Giobbi and F. Lupinacci gave an invaluable assistance with handling
with all secretary tasks.
The organization warmly thanks the Major of the City, dr. Giuseppe Guercio and
the vice-Major, avv. Roberto Corsello, for the hospitality in the City Hall and for their
support before and during the meeting. We thank prof. Giuseppe Barracato and his
secretary mrs. Enza Aquia for use of the beautiful “Sala delle Capriate”, where the
lectures were held.
Special thanks are also due to the President and Vice-president of the “Fondazione
Mandralisca”, dr. Angelo Piscitello and dr. Manlio Peri, for the support given by the
Fondazione to the logistics and the organization at large, for their help in the outreach
events, and the set-up of the secretarial offices and the internet connections. In this
respect, we want to cite the huge effort made by Antonino Gugliuzza as leader of the
local operations staff. We cite also the “Cefalu’ and Astronomy” Association and its
President and vice-President, prof. Luciano Burderi and dr. Tiziana Di Salvo, for the
work done for the success of this conference.
Finally, we warmly thank the European Science Foundation for the financial support given, as well as prof. Giancarlo Ruocco and dr. Emanuele Giallongo, respectively
directors of the Dep. of Physics of Sapienza, Univ. of Roma and of the Observatory of
Roma (INAF), for both financial and logistic support.
Some of the pictures taken during the meeting can be found at the web site:
http://www.oa-roma.inaf.it/meetings/cefalu/2011/Photos.html
The editors,
Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta (conference chair)
Marco Limongi (conference chair)
Amedeo Tornambè
Participants
D A, Astrophysics Group, School of Physics, University of Exeter, Stocker
Road Exeter EX4 4QL, UK h [email protected] i
M A S, Department of Physics, ”Sapienza”, Università di Roma,
Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy h [email protected] i
M B, Exzellenzcluster Universe, Boltzmannstr. 2. D-85748 Garching,
Germany h [email protected] i
J B, Huygens Laboratory, J.H. Oort Building, Niels Bohrweg, 2 NL-2333
CA Leiden, The Netherlands h [email protected] i
V B, Max-Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse
85748 Garching, Germany h [email protected] i
L E. B, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA h [email protected] i
A B, Lund Observatory, Sölvegetan, 27 SE-221-00, Sweden
h [email protected] i
A B, INAF-OACT, Astronomical Observatory of Catania, Via S. Sofia, 78
95123 Catania (Italy) h [email protected] i
I B, Department of Physics, University of St.Andrews, College Gate,
St.Andrews Fife, KY16 9AJ Scotland (UK) h [email protected] i
R B, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Denys Wilkinson
Building, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK h [email protected] i
S B, INAF-OAT Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, Via G.B. Tiepolo,
11 34143 Trieste, Italy h [email protected] i
K B, Department of Physics, ”Sapienza”, Università di Roma,
Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy h [email protected] i
R B, CINECA, Via Magnanelli 6/3, 40033 Casalecchio sul Reno,
Bologna (Italy) h [email protected] i
D C, Huygens Laboratory, J.H. Oort Building, Niels Bohrweg, 2 NL-2333
CA Leiden, The Netherlands h [email protected] i
R C-D, Department of Physics, ”Sapienza, Università di Roma,
Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy h [email protected] i
C C, ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 208, Oak Ridge
TN 37831, USA h [email protected] i
M C, INAF-OAR, Astronomical Observatory of Roma, Via di Frascati,
33 00040 Monte Porzio Catone, Rome, Italy h [email protected] i
K-J C, Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, 240 Williamson
Hall, 231 Pilsbury Drive S.E., Minneapolis MN 55455-0213, USA
h [email protected] i
R C, Dept. of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University,
Sölvegatan 27, SE 221-00 Lund, Sweden h [email protected] i
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C J. C, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road,
Cambridge CB3 0HA UK h [email protected] i
B C̧, Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, DE 69917
Heidelberg, Germany h [email protected] i
C D, Max-Planck Institut fur Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse,
DE-85748 GArching, Germany h [email protected] i
I D, Department of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Science, University of
Granada, Campus of Fuentenueva, E-18071 Granada, Spain h [email protected] i
R D-T, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Autonomous University
of Madrid, C/ Nicolas Cabrera, 13-15. Cantoblanco E-28049 Spain
h [email protected] i
E D’O, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA h [email protected] i
Y D, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Denys Wilkinson
Building, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK h [email protected] i
V D, Anglander Institut für Astronomie, Auf dem Hügel, 71 D-53121 Bonn,
Germany h [email protected] i
S E, Observatoire de l’Université.de Genève, 51 Chemin des Maillettes
CH-1290 Sauverny, Suisse h [email protected] i
P E, Shangai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 80
Nandan Road Shangai 200030 China h [email protected] i
K F, University Observatory of Munich, Faculty of Physics at the
Ludwig-Maximilians University, Scheinderstrasse 1, D-81679 München, Germany
h [email protected] i
B F, Dept. of Physical Sciences University of Michigan, 504 Thompson,
Ann Arbour MI 48109-1340 USA h [email protected] i
M F, Huygens Laboratory, J.H. Oort Building, Niels Bohrweg, 2 NL-2333
CA Leiden, The Netherlands h [email protected] i
C G, CRAL-ENS Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon, 15 parvis René
Descartes BP 7000-69342 Lyons, France h [email protected] i
P G, ITA Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik, Albert-Ueberle Str.2,
69120 Heidelberg, Germany h [email protected] i
S G, Northwestern University, 633 Clark Street Evanston, Ill 60208
USA h [email protected] i
C G, Istanbul Technical University, Science and Technology Institution
Building, 34469 Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey h [email protected] i
L H, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA h [email protected] i
D H, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Hicks
Building, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield S3 7RH, UK h [email protected] i
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F I, MPA Max-Planck Institut für Astrophysik,
Karl-Schwarzschildstr. 1, 85741 Garching, Germany
h [email protected] i
L I, ITA Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik, Albert-Ueberle Str. 2,
69120 Heidelberg, Germany h [email protected] i
J I, IEEC-CSIC, Institute of Space Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of
Barcelona, 02193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain h [email protected] i
R K, MPIA, Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, 69117
Heidelberg, Germany h [email protected] i
D K, TAC/UC, Theoretical Astrophysics Center, University of California
Berkeley, Hearst Field Annex, MC3411 Berkeley CA 94720-3411 USA
h [email protected] i
A K, Departmenty of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of
Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago IL 60637, USA h [email protected] i
G L, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133
Milano, Italy h [email protected] i
P L, Department of Applied Physics, Tech. University of Barcelona, Campus
Diagonal North, Building B4, C. Jordi Girona 1-3, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
h [email protected] i
R L, Centre for Astronomy, National University Galway, University
Road, Galway, Ireland h [email protected] i
R M, Institute of Astronomy, University of Sao Paulo, Rua do Matão
1226, Cidade Universitaria, Sao Paulo Brazil 05508-090
h [email protected] i
P M, Department of Physics, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades
Road, Boca Raton FL 33431-0991 USA h [email protected] i
D M, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Zürich,
Winterthurerstrasse 190, m8057 Zürich, Switzerland h [email protected] i
T M, OSUG Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble,
Domaine Universitaire, 414 Rue de la piscine, 38400 St. Martin d’Hères, France
h [email protected] i
S M, Department of Physics, University of Torino, Via Giuria, 1 10125
Torino, Italy h [email protected] i
A M B, Department of Physics, ”Sapienza”, Universtità di
Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
h [email protected] i
L M, ETH Zurich, Main Building, Rämistrasse, 101 - 8092 Zurich,
Switzerland h [email protected] i
S MM, Department of Physics, Drexel University, Disque Hall, Room 816,
3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia PA19104-2875 USA
h [email protected] i
S M, Tuorla Observatory, University of Turku, Vaisalantie 20, FI-21500
Piikkio, Finland h [email protected] i
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N M, Department of Physics, University of Vienna, Strudlhofgasse 4,
Vienna 1090, Austria h [email protected] i
M M, Department of Physics, ”Sapienza”, Università di Roma, Piazzale
Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy h [email protected] i
L M, MPA Max-Planck Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschildstr. 1,
85741 Garching, Germany h [email protected] i
M M, Physics Department, Northwestern University, 633 Clark Street
Evanston, Ill 60208 USA h [email protected] i
B M, MPA Max-Planck Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschildstr.1,
85741 Garching, Germany h [email protected] i
G M, Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, Via G.B. Tiepolo, 11 34143
Trieste, Italy h [email protected] i
D N, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA h [email protected] i
S N, Physics Department, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190,
CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland h [email protected] i
C N, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bologna, Viale Berti-Pichat 6/2,
40127 Bologna, Italy h [email protected] i
J N, IAG Institut für Aerodynamik und Gasdynbamik, Universität
Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 21, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
h [email protected] i
A O, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Autonomous University of Madrid, C/
Nicolas Cabrera, 13-15. Cantoblanco E-28049, Spain h [email protected] i
C O, Astronomisches Reichen Institüt, Mönchhöfstrasse 12-14, 69120
Heidelberg, Germany h [email protected] i
J́ O, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, 4129
Frederick Haines Hall Irvine, CA 92697-4575, USA h [email protected] i
T O, Physics Dept. University of Okkaido, Kita 10, Nisi 8, Kita.ku, Sapporo
060-0810, Japan h [email protected] i
P P, Department of Physics, ”Sapienza”, Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo
Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy h [email protected] i
B P, Northwestern University, 633 Clark Street Evanston, Ill 60208
USA h [email protected] i
S P, Physics Department, University of Valencia, Calle Dr. Moliner 50,
46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain h [email protected] i
L P, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Sussex
House Brighton BN1 9RH, UK h [email protected] i
S P Z, Huygens Laboratory, J.H. Oort Building, Niels Bohrweg, 2
NL-2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands h [email protected] i
D P, School of Physics, Monash University, Building 19N Clayton Campus,
VIC 3800 Australia h [email protected] i
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M L P, INAF-OACT, Astronomical Observatory of Catania, Via S.
Sofia, 78 95123 Catania (Italy) h [email protected] i
D P, Department of Physics, ”Sapienza”, Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo
Moro 52, 00185 Roma, Italy h [email protected] i
V Q, Physics Department, University of Valencia, Calle Dr. Moliner 50,
46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain h [email protected] i
Y R, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique, EPFL-Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne, Observatoire de Sauverny, CH-1290 Versoix, Switzerland
h [email protected] i
L R, AEI- Albert Einstein Institute, (Max-Planck Institüt für
Gravitationsphysik) Potsdam, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Golm, Germany
h [email protected] i
A R, INAF-OACT Astronomical Observatory of Catania, Via S. Sofia, 78
95123 Catania (Italy) /UNAB, Chile/ h [email protected] i
G R, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133
Milano, Italy h [email protected] i
F R, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Firenze, Largo
Enrico Fermi 2, 50125 Firenze, Italy h [email protected] i
S S, Yu. G. Shafer Institute Cosmophysical Research and Aeronomy of
the Siberian Branch of the RAS, 31 Lenina Ave., 677980 Yakutsk, Russia
h s [email protected] i
E S, Department of Physics, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871504,
Tempe, AZ 85287-1504, USA h [email protected] i
D S, ITA Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik, Albert-Ueberle Str. 2,
69120 Heidelberg, Germany h [email protected] i
F S, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Autonomous University of
Madrid, C/ Nicolas Cabrera, 13-15. Cantoblanco E-28049 Spain
h [email protected] i
M S, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University,
Kitashirakawa Oiwakecho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502 Japan
h [email protected] i
D S, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA h [email protected] i
N S, Supercomputer Software Dept., Institute of Computational Maths
and Mathematical Geophysics, Lavrent’ev Pr. 6, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
h [email protected] i
S S, Department of Physics, Yale University, 217 Prospect Street, New
Haven CT 06511-8499 USA h [email protected] i
F S, Department of Physics, Yale University, 217 Prospect Street, New
Haven CT 06511-8499 USA h [email protected] i
M S, Department of Physics, ”Sapienza”, Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo
Moro 52, 00185 Roma, Italy h sp [email protected] i
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E S, Departamento de Fisica Universidade de Evora, Collegio Luis
Antonio Verney, Rua Romão Ramlho 59, 7002-544 Evora,Portugal
h [email protected] i
R S, Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik, Albert-Ueberle Str.2, 69120
Heidelberg, Germany h [email protected] i
D S, Cardiff School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University,
Queens Building, The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK
h [email protected] i
O S, INAF-OA, Osservatorio Astronomico di Collurania ”V. Cerulli”,
Via Mentore Maggini snc, 64100 Teramo, Italy h [email protected] i
S S, ITA Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik, Albert-Ueberle Str.2, 69120
Heidelberg, Germany h [email protected] i
R T, Space Research Inst., (IKI), 117997, 84/32 Profsoyuznaya Str,
Moscow, Russia h [email protected] i
M T, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University,
Kitashirakawa Oiwakecho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502 Japan
h [email protected] i
R T, Physics Department, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190,
CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland h [email protected] i
V T, Yu. G. Shafer Institute Cosmophysical Research and Aeronomy
of the Siberian Branch of the RAS, 31 Lenina Ave.,677980 Yakutsk, Russia
h [email protected] i
A T̀, INAF-OAR, Astronomical Observatory of Roma, Via di Frascati,
33 00040 Monte Porzio Catone, Rome, Italy h [email protected] i
M U, MPA Max-Planck Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschildstr.
1, 85741 Garching, Germany h [email protected] i
A U, Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, DE 69917
Heidelberg, Germany h [email protected] i
B V, Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, DE 69917
Heidelberg, Germany h [email protected] i
R V, SISSA-International School for Advanced Studies, Via
Bonomea 265, 34136 Trieste, Italy h [email protected] i
F V, Physics Department, Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 1 –
28759 Bremen, Germany h [email protected] i
A V, Department of Physics, University of Torino, Via Giuria, 1 10125
Torino, Italy h [email protected] i
P V, INAF-OAR, Astronomical Observatory of Roma, Via di Frascati, 33
00040 Monte Porzio Catone, Rome, Italy h [email protected] i
S V, Huygens Laboratory, J.H. Oort Building, Niels Bohrweg, 2 NL-2333
CA Leiden, The Netherlands h [email protected] i
E V, Department of Physics, University of Vienna, Strudlhofgasse 4,
Vienna 1090, Austria h [email protected] i
Participants
M W, Physics Department, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse
190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland h [email protected] i
D W, Department of Physics, Carnegie-Mellon University, 500 Forbes
Ave., Pittsburgh PA 15213, USA h [email protected] i
A W, MPA Max-Planck Institut für Astrophysik,
Karl-Schwarzschildstr. 1, 85741 Garching, Germany
h [email protected] i
O Z, Dipartimento di Fisica Università di Trento, Via Sommarive, 14 –
38123 Povo, Trento, Italy h [email protected] i
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Scientific Organizing Committee
D. Arnett (Univ. of Arizona, USA), W. Benz (Univ. of Bern, CH), S. Borgani (Univ.
di Trieste, Italy), R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta (Sapienza, Univ. of Roma, Italy, co-chair), A.
Chieffi (INAF, Roma, Italy), B. Elmegreen (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY,
USA), J. Isern (IEEC-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain), M. Limongi (INAF, Roma, Italy, cochair), A. Mezzacappa (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA), B. Moore (Univ. of
Zurich, CH), E. Müller (MPI, Garching, Ge), R. Rosner (Univ. of Chicago, USA), L.
Rezzolla (AEI, Potsdam, DE), T. Theuns (ICC, Durham, UK), A. Tornambè (INAF,
Roma, Italy)
Local Organizing Committee
L. Burderi (Univ. of Cagliari, Italy), M. Castellani (INAF, Roma, Italy), T. Di Salvo
(Univ. of Palermo, Italy), M. Faccini (INAF, Roma, Italy), G. Giobbi (INAF, Roma,
Italy, technical editor), F. Lupinacci (Sapienza, Univ. of Roma, Italy), A. Mastrobuono
Battisti (Sapienza, Univ. of Roma, Italy)
Sponsors
Department of Physics, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy
European Science Foundation, through the Astrosim program on Computational Astrophysics
INAF, Observatory of Rome, Italy
Organizational Support
Associazione Cefalù and Astronomy, Cefalù, Italy
Comune di Cefalù, Italy
Fondazione Mandralisca, Cefalù, Italy
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