{"id":74961,"date":"2018-01-07T04:43:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/computational-astrophysics-team-uncloaks-magnetic-fields-of-cosmic-events"},"modified":"2018-01-11T17:04:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T01:04:59","slug":"computational-astrophysics-team-uncloaks-magnetic-fields-of-cosmic-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/computational-astrophysics-team-uncloaks-magnetic-fields-of-cosmic-events","title":{"rendered":"Computational astrophysics team uncloaks magnetic fields of cosmic events"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The development of ultra-intense lasers delivering the same power as the entire U.S. power grid has enabled the study of cosmic phenomena such as supernovae and black holes in earthbound laboratories. Now, a new method developed by computational astrophysicists at the University of Chicago allows scientists to analyze a key characteristic of these events: their powerful and complex magnetic fields.<\/p>\n

In the field<\/a> of high-energy density physics, or HEDP, scientists study a wide range of astrophysical objects\u2014stars, supermassive black holes<\/a> at the center of galaxies and galaxy clusters\u2014with laboratory experiments as small as a penny and lasting only a few billionths of a second. By focusing powerful lasers on a carefully designed target, researchers can produce plasmas that reproduce conditions observed by astronomers in our sun and distant galaxies.<\/p>\n

Planning these complex and expensive experiments requires large-scale, high-fidelity computer simulation beforehand. Since 2012, the Flash Center for Computational Science of the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at UChicago has provided the leading open computer code, called FLASH, for these HEDP simulations, enabling researchers to fine-tune experiments and develop analysis methods before execution at sites such as the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory or the OMEGA Laser Facility in Rochester, N.Y.<\/p>\n

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