Astrophysics Seminars

The similarity between the mass and spatial distributions of pre-stellar gas cores in star-forming clouds and young stars in clusters provides strong circumstantial evidence that these gas cores are the direct progenitors of individual stars. I...

In dilute plasmas, the electron mean free path is significantly larger than the electron Larmor radius. As a result, heat is transported primarily along (not across) magnetic field lines. The physics of buoyancy instabilities ("convection") is...

Galaxy cluster merger statistics are an important component in understanding the formation of large-scale structure. Recent studies suggest a merger bias, that mergers are more highly clustered than other objects of their mass. Cluster mergers are...

I will summarize our understanding of the climate of Titan based on observations, theory, and modeling. The nature of observed phenomena, such as summer-hemisphere methane clouds, the vertical profile of methane in the lower atmosphere, high...