Computational Stellar Astrophysics

The Computational Stellar Astrophysics (CSA) group uses numerical models to study:

• Coronal structure and dynamics, as well as coronal heating of other stars.
• Plasma physics in exoplanetary systems - this research involves interplanetary physics and space weather of close-in exoplanets, star-planet magnetic interaction, and magnetospheric dynamics and physics of the upper atmospheres of close-in planets.
• Solar wind interaction with the Earth's magnetosphere, to calculate solar wind charge exchange X-ray emission.
• The corona and interplanetary environment of the young Sun.
• Radiation and ionization in accretion disks.
• Novae Hydrodynamics.