Computational Astrophysics Laboratory

전산천체물리학 연구실

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전산천체물리학 연구실

Various reactions occur in the Universe. Nuclear reactions occur inside stars and on the surface of compact objects like white dwarfs and neutron stars. Ionization of atoms (and recombination of electrons) occur in any plasma state and even chemical reactions are important in cool, dense gas which will form stars eventually. We are interested in simulating these reactions in the relevant astrophysical environments. Our simulation results are compared with observations and give a hint on how we can understand what we see/observe.

We also have interest in multi-messenger astronomy (MMA), an emerging field in modern astronomy. MMA includes gravitational wave (GW) astronomy, neutrino astronomy (NA), and conventional electromagnetic wave (i.e., light) astronomy. We are participating in two MMA international collaboration, KAGRA (Japaneses GW detector) and Hyper-Kamiokande (Japanese NA detector). Our research activities focus on predicting unpredicted astrophysical sources that could be discovered with current and future GW and NA detectors.

Major research field

Nuclear astrophysics, interstellar medium, astro-chemistry, supercomputing

Desired field of research

Gravitational wave, neutrino astrophysics, machine learning

Research Keywords and Topics

Hydrodynamic Simulations of Astrophysical Phenomena at Non-equilibrium States
Numerical Relativity: Hydrodynamic and Magneto-Hydrodynamic Simulations of Relativistic Flows
Computational Nuclear Astrophysics for the Rare Isotope Accelerator Experiments
Relativistic Radiative Transfer for the Astrophysical Applications (e.g., Gamma-Ray Bursts and Active Galactic Nuclei)
Numerical Astro-Chemistry
Gravitational Wave and Neutrino Astrophysics

Research Publications
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1. "Isotopic Compositions of Ruthenium Predicted from the NuGrid Project", Seonho Kim, Kwang Hyun Sung, and Kyujin Kwak, Astrophysical Journal, 924, 88 (2022)
2. "Measuring the masses and radii of neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries: Effects of the atmospheric composition and touchdown radius", Myungkuk Kim, Young-Min Kim, Kwang Hyun Sung, Chang-Hwan Lee, and Kyujin Kwak, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 650, A139 (2021)
3. "Tidal deformability of neutron stars with realistic nuclear energy density functionals", Young-Min Kim, Yeunhwan Lim, Kyujin Kwak, Chang Ho Hyun, and Chang-Hwan Lee, Physical Review C, 98, 065805 (2018)

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