The Center for Computational Astrophysics executes research programs on systems ranging in scales from planets to cosmology, creating and using computational tools for data analysis and theory. It also supports, trains, and equips diverse members of the global astrophysics community and convenes events and workshops in New York City.
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Astrophysicist Shy Genel is leveraging machine learning to reveal the most basic properties of the universe.
Our Mission:
▪ Solve important, hard problems in computational astrophysics. Focus on problems that we at Flatiron are uniquely positioned to solve. ▪ Invent and propagate better data-analysis practices, analytical methods and computational methods for the global astrophysics community, with a focus on rigor. ▪ Develop, maintain and contribute to open-source software packages, open data and their communities. ▪ Create and support a community of astrophysics doers, learners and mentors in New York City and beyond. ▪ Train and launch diverse early-career researchers in astrophysics with unique capabilities in computational methods.
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Collaborative Work

This collaboration, directed by Greg Bryan of Columbia University, aims to understand and determine the evolution and initial conditions of our universe, using observations via a Bayesian forward modeling approach.
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- | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
- | Harvard University
- | Stockholm University
- | Institute D'Astrophysique de Paris
- | Université de Montreal
- | Princeton University
- | Carnegie Mellon University
- | Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics
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Major research efforts currently supported by
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News & Announcements
October 16, 2023
Upcoming Events
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06 Wed -
Conference 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Black Holes on Broadway: The Next Generation of AGN Models in Galaxy Formation
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Conference 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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07 Thu -
Conference 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Black Holes on Broadway: The Next Generation of AGN Models in Galaxy Formation
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Conference 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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13 Wed -
Workshop 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Radiation Transport in Astrophysics
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Workshop 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Event Videos
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Jorge Moreno: The Intriguing Lives of Galaxies Lacking Dark Matter
October 13, 2023
CCA Colloquium: Jorge Moreno

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Gregory Howes: Developing Predictive Models of Turbulent Heating in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas
September 22, 2023
CCA Colloquium: Gregory G. Howes

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Laura Sales: Baryonic Solutions and Challenges to Cosmological Models of Dwarf Galaxies
September 15, 2023
CCA Colloquium: Laura Sales

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Erica June Nelson: The Emergence of Galactic Structure
September 8, 2023
CCA Colloquium: Erica June Nelson

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Research Highlights
A unified model for the co-evolution of galaxies and their circumgalactic medium: the relative roles of turbulence and atomic cooling physics
The circumgalactic medium (CGM) plays a pivotal role in regulating gas flows around galaxies and thus shapes their evolution. However,…
arXiv:2211.09755An unusual pulse shape change event in PSR J1713+0747 observed with the Green Bank Telescope and CHIME
The millisecond pulsar J1713+0747 underwent a sudden and significant pulse shape change between April 16 and 17, 2021 (MJDs 59320…
arXiv:2210.12266Active galactic nucleus jet feedback in hydrostatic haloes
Feedback driven by jets from active galactic nuclei is believed to be responsible for reducing cooling flows in cool-core galaxy…
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Software

Gala
Galactic Dynamics is the study of the formation, history, and evolution of galaxies using the orbits of objects — numerically-integrated trajectories of stars, dark matter particles, star clusters, or galaxies themselves.

STARRY
starry enables the computation of fast and precise light curves for various applications in astronomy: transits and secondary eclipses of exoplanets, light curves of eclipsing binaries, rotational phase curves of exoplanets, light curves of planet-planet and planet-moon occultations, and more.

George
George is a fast and flexible Python library for Gaussian Process Regression. It capitalizes on the Hierarchical Off-Diagonal Low-Rank formalism to make controlled approximations for fast execution.

celerite
celerite is a library for fast and scalable Gaussian Process (GP) Regression in one dimension with implementations in C++, Python, and Julia.

Astrometry.net
If you have astronomical imaging of the sky with celestial coordinates you do not know—or do not trust—then Astrometry.net is for you. Input an image and we'll give you back astrometric calibration meta-data, plus lists of known objects falling inside the field of view.

DAFT
Daft is a Python package that uses matplotlib to render pixel-perfect probabilistic graphical models for publication in a journal or on the internet.

emcee
emcee is an extensible, pure-Python implementation of Goodman & Weare's Affine Invariant Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Ensemble sampler. It's designed for Bayesian parameter estimation.