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Exploring the Universe with Virtual Galaxies

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Exploring the Universe with Virtual Galaxies

Northwestern Physics and Astronomy student Zachary Hafen presents a talk as part of the Northwestern Ready Set Go (RSG) program. The goals of the program are to increase awareness for the urgent need for excellent research communicators and to coach graduate and post doctoral researchers to improve their own presentation skills. The program focuses on three important

Northwestern's RSG Program

Isolated Disc Galaxy

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Isolated Disc Galaxy

Simulation of an isolated disc galaxy, looking at the disc of the galaxy face on (top panels) and edge on (bottom panels). The left-hand panels show images of the stellar light, and is what we would see if we viewed this galaxy with a telescope such as Hubble. The right-hand panels show the gas in

Alex Richings / Northwestern

Radiative-hydrodynamic Simulation of a Dusty Cloud Irradiated by a Quasar

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Radiative-hydrodynamic Simulation of a Dusty Cloud Irradiated by a Quasar

The figure shows a radiative-hydrodynamic simulation of a dusty cloud irradiated by a quasar (located at r = 0). Radiation pressure is set to be the dominant pressure source. Left panel shows the initial conditions, while the right panel shows the cloud 10^4 years after exposure to the quasar radiation. A quasi-static density gradient develops at

Jonathan Stern in collaboration with J. Onorbe.

Firefly Demonstration

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Firefly Demonstration

Firefly is a portable web-based 3d visualization software developed in partnership between the Northwestern University Galaxy Formation and Visualization groups. It was developed with the data output of the FIRE simulations in mind but can visualize any 3d dataset (in coordinate or phase space). In this video I demonstrate some of the key features of

Aaron Geller / Alex Gurvich / Northwestern

Galaxy Evolution

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Galaxy Evolution

Here we show the evolution of a Milky Way-like galaxy over time. The top row shows the galaxy as it would appear today, the middle 3.5 billion years ago, and the bottom almost 10 billion years ago. Columns give different views of the same snapshot in time, leftmost is the mock view through the Hubble

Alex Gurvich / Northwestern

One Galaxy, Multiple Perspectives

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One Galaxy, Multiple Perspectives

This collection of images shows gas swirling around the same galaxy in several different ways. Taken together, the columns create a time-lapse projection. The top row shows the density of gas in the galaxy at a given time: in these panels, the brightest areas show where gas is most densely concentrated. In the middle row,

Zachary Hafen, CIERA/Northwestern University