UT Astronomy - Research

Formation of the first stars and quasars; high-redshift supernovae and metal enrichment; supermassive black hole formation; gamma-ray bursts; reionization of the intergalactic medium; present-day star formation; computational astrophysics.

Group Areas

First Stars & Galaxies, ISM and Star Formation, Structure Formation

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Milos Milosavljevic

Associate Professor

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Research Interests

Massive black holes; the Galactic center; galaxy formation; galaxy clusters; plasma astrophysics.

Group Areas

Clusters of Galaxies, Gamma-ray Bursts, Black Holes & AGN

Meghann Agarwal

Graduate Student - Physics

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Daniel Kagan

Graduate Student

Group Areas

Supernovae

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Chris Lindner

Graduate Student

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Group Areas

Gamma-ray Bursts, Supernovae

Jeremy Ritter

Graduate Student

Research Interests

Computational Cosmology

Group Areas

First Stars & Galaxies

Chalence Safranek-Shrader

Graduate Student

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Research Interests

Star Formation in the First Galaxies; Chemical and Radiative Feedback from the First Stars and Galaxies; Near-field Cosmology

Group Areas

First Stars & Galaxies, ISM and Star Formation

Gas number density n (upper panels) and neutral fraction XH (lower panels) at two separate instances around t~4,000 yr. The left panels show the flow during a central accretion minimum; infalling gas is clearly visible at r~1.5 x 10¹⁶ cm. The right panels show the flow during a central accretion maximum. The structure near the central axis, in the conical region marked by dashed lines, is an artifact of our having set the optical depth to zero along the axis, for R/|z| < tan5°, to avoid numerical issues arising from the coordinate singularity.

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Accretion onto Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Dense Protogalactic Clouds astro-ph