Fabian Heitsch @ UNC Chapel Hill

Fabian Heitsch

Department of Physics & Astronomy
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
CB 3255, Phillips Hall 292
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255
fheitsch@unc.edu

Model HVC: column, centroid velocity and velocity dispersion.

Evolution and fate of High Velocity Clouds (HVCs). These clouds presumably provide fuel for feeding Galactic star formation (e.g. Putman+ 12), yet their origin is still a matter of debate. Fluid dynamics simulations help to ...

Model protostellar core: column and polarization vectors.

Magnetic fields are ubiquitous in interestellar gas. Taking their observed strength at face-value, they should dominate interstellar gas dynamics up to the point of star formation. Yet, this does not seem to be the case...

Local amplification of magnetic fields in shocks and turbulent interfaces plays a role for particle acceleration and for interstellar medium dynamics in general. The detailed field structure depends on...

At the AFDL@UNC, undergraduate and graduate students work on their own projects -- from star formation around black holes and chemistry of molecular clouds to MCMC models of 3D HVC orientation. To find out more...