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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Center for Computational Astrophysics
A Stellar Revolution: How Open-Source Tool MESA Changed the Way We Study Stars
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Since its creation by retired Silicon Valley software designer Bill Paxton, the Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) has illuminated the lives of stars and become a staple for stellar scientists. The Flatiron Institute’s increased support for the project marks a new chapter in the astrophysics tool’s storied history.
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
Learning the Universe
This collaboration 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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- | Columbia University
- | 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
Upcoming Events
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24 Fri -
Colloquium 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
CCA Colloquium: Earl Bellinger
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Colloquium 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
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07 Fri -
Colloquium 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
CCA Colloquium: Neal Dalal
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Colloquium 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
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14 Fri -
Colloquium 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
CCA Colloquium: Jason Sanders
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Colloquium 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
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21 Fri -
Colloquium 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
CCA Colloquium: Kevin Burdge
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Colloquium 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
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12 Fri -
Colloquium 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
CCA Colloquium: Yuan Li
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Colloquium 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
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13 Tue -
Meeting 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
MockNYC
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Meeting 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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18 Wed -
Workshop 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
AGN & Energy Flows Workshop
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Workshop 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Event Videos
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Masaru Shibata: Exploring neutron star mergers in numerical relativity
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Hannah Diamond Lowe: Hot Rocks and Host Stars
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Matteo Cantiello: Hard Problems in Computational Stellar Physics
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Gravitational Wave Celebration
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Publications
Cosmological constraints from non-Gaussian and nonlinear galaxy clustering using the SimBIG inference framework
ChangHoon Hahn, Pablo Lemos, Liam Parker, B. Régaldo-Saint Blancard, M. Eickenberg, Shirley Ho, Ph.D. , Jiamin Hou, Elena Massara , Chirag Modi , Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah, David Spergel, Ph.D.
The standard ΛCDM cosmological model predicts the presence of cold dark matter, with the current accelerated expansion of the Universe…
Nature AstronomyListening to the noise: Blind Denoising with Gibbs Diffusion
In recent years, denoising problems have become intertwined with the development of deep generative models. In particular, diffusion models are…
Proceedings of Machine Learning ResearchFishing for Planets: A Comparative Analysis of EPRV Survey Performance in the Presence of Correlated Noise
A. Gupta, M. Bedell
With dedicated exoplanet surveys underway for multiple extreme-precision radial velocity (EPRV) instruments, the near-future prospects of RV exoplanet science are…
The Astronomical JournalDirector
Software
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.
celerite
celerite is a library for fast and scalable Gaussian Process (GP) Regression in one dimension with implementations in C++, Python, and Julia.
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.
EXP
The EXP C++ library is an efficient N-body simulation toolkit that implements basis-function methods using hybrid CPU and GPU code alongside Python bindings.
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.
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.
MESA
MESA is a robust suite of open-source, robust, efficient, thread-safe libraries extensively used in computational stellar astrophysics.
Pyia
Pyia is a Python package for interacting and working with data from the Gaia Mission.
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.