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Collapsars: Gamma-ray bursts and explosions in 'failed supernovae'
- A. Macfadyen, S. Woosley
- Physics
- 19 October 1998
Using a two-dimensional hydrodynamics code (PROMETHEUS), we explore the continued evolution of rotating helium stars, Mα 10 M☉, in which iron-core collapse does not produce a successful outgoing… Expand
BINARY BLACK HOLE ACCRETION FROM A CIRCUMBINARY DISK: GAS DYNAMICS INSIDE THE CENTRAL CAVITY
- Brian D. Farris, P. Duffell, A. Macfadyen, Z. Haiman
- Physics
- 1 October 2013
We present the results of two-dimensional (2D) hydrodynamical simulations of circumbinary disk accretion using the finite-volume code DISCO. This code solves the 2D viscous Navier-Stokes equations on… Expand
AN ECCENTRIC CIRCUMBINARY ACCRETION DISK AND THE DETECTION OF BINARY MASSIVE BLACK HOLES
- A. Macfadyen, M. Milosavljevic
- Physics
- 20 July 2006
We present a two-dimensional grid-based hydrodynamic simulation of a thin, viscous, locally isothermal corotating disk orbiting an equal-mass Newtonian binary point mass on a fixed circular orbit. We… Expand
Supernovae, Jets, and Collapsars
- A. Macfadyen, S. Woosley, A. Heger
- Physics
- 2 October 1999
We continue our study of the possible production of supernovae and a variety of high-energy transients by black hole formation in massive stars endowed with rotation: the "collapsar model." The black… Expand
THE DYNAMICS AND AFTERGLOW RADIATION OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS. I. CONSTANT DENSITY MEDIUM
- W. Zhang, A. Macfadyen
- Physics
- 13 February 2009
Direct multidimensional numerical simulation is the most reliable approach for calculating the fluid dynamics and observational signatures of relativistic jets in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We present… Expand
RAM: a Relativistic Adaptive Mesh Refinement Hydrodynamics Code
- W. Zhang, A. Macfadyen
- Physics
- 23 May 2005
The authors have developed a new computer code, RAM, to solve the conservative equations of special relativistic hydrodynamics (SRHD) using adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) on parallel computers. They… Expand
An HST Search for Supernovae Accompanying X-Ray Flashes
- A. Soderberg, S. Kulkarni, +24 authors S. Shectman
- Physics
- 25 February 2005
We present the results from a Hubble Space Telescope ACS search for supernovae associated with X-ray flashes 020903, 040701, 040812, and 040916. We find strong evidence that XRF 020903 (z = 0.25) was… Expand
Off-axis Gamma-ray Burst Afterglow Modeling Based on a Two-dimensional Axisymmetric Hydrodynamics Simulation
- H. V. Eerten, W. Zhang, A. Macfadyen
- Physics
- 26 June 2010
Starting as highly relativistic collimated jets, gamma-ray burst outflows gradually slow down and become nonrelativistic spherical blast waves. Although detailed analytical solutions describing the… Expand
Gap Opening by Extremely Low-mass Planets in a Viscous Disk
- P. Duffell, A. Macfadyen
- Physics
- 8 February 2013
By numerically integrating the compressible Navier-Stokes equations in two dimensions, we calculate the criterion for gap formation by a very low mass (q ~ 10?4) protoplanet on a fixed orbit in a… Expand
The Migration of Gap-opening Planets is Not Locked to Viscous Disk Evolution
- P. Duffell, Z. Haiman, A. Macfadyen, D. D’Orazio, Brian D. Farris
- Physics
- 14 May 2014
Most standard descriptions of Type II migration state that massive, gap-opening planets must migrate at the viscous drift rate. This is based on the idea that the disk is separated into an inner and… Expand