学术报告 Radiation MagnetoHydrodynamic Simulations of Astrophysical Systems: from massive stars to black holes

报告人简介：

Jiang Yanfei's research interests are in the field of high energy astrophysics, galaxy evolution and structures, massive stars, radiation (magneto-) hydrodynamics. Jiang got his bachelor from Tsinghua University in physics in 2008 and the PhD from the Princeton University in Astrophysics in 2013. After that, he worked as a postdoc fellow until 2019. In September 2019, Jiang joined Center for Computational Astrophysics of Flatiron Institute as an Associate Research Scientist. He was granted a ITC and Einstein Fellowship in 2013 and was granted a KITP Fellowship in 2016.

报告摘要：

Evolutions of massive stars, black hole accretion as well as interactions between stars and black holes play an important role in various astrophysical systems, such as supernova, X-ray binaries, AGNs as well as various transient phenomena.  I will discuss some long standing issues related to massive star and black hole systems. Then I will describe some examples on how we can make progress on some of the key theoretical uncertainties based on 3D radiation magneto-hydrodynamic simulations. In particular, I will show how these simulations can be used to understand observations directly. Future directions will also be discussed.