This page provides links to the program archives, including:
Past Programs
- ISIMA 2010: Transport Processes in Astrophysics: UC Santa Cruz, July 6th - August 13th.
- ISIMA 2011: Star and Planet Formation: KIAA Beijing, June 27th - August 5th.
- ISIMA 2014: Gravitational Dynamics: CITA, Toronto, June 30th - August 8th.
- KSPA 2016: Exoplanet Atmospheres: UC Santa Cruz, June 20th - July 29th.
- KSPA 2017: Astrophysics with gravitational wave detections: Niels Bohr Institute, July 10th - August 18th
- KSPA 2018: The Astrophysics of Galaxy Formation: Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, June 25th-August 3rd, 2018
- KSPA 2019: Machine Learning in the era of large Astronomical Surveys: UC Santa Cruz, July 8th-August 16th, 2019
- KSPA 2021: The fluid dynamics of the Sun and Stars: MPS, Goettingen, June 7th-July 16th, 2021
ISIMA/Kavli Summer Program Publications
The following publications all result from student projects, from collaborations initiated through the program, or from work which greatly benefitted from attendance at the program. Names in bold are student fellows of the program.
If you have recently published a paper thanks to ISIMA/Kavli Summer Program participation, please email pgaraud at ucsc dot edu to add it to the list.
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- Variability of Blue Supergiants in the LMC with TESS by L. Ma , C. Johnston, E. Bellinger and S. de Mink, submitted to ApJ
- Explosions in Roche-Lobe Distorted Stars: Relativistic Bullets in Binaries by M. DuPont , A. MacFadyen and S. de Mink, submitted
- The combined effects of vertical and horizontal shear instabilities by P. Garaud, S. Khan and J. M. Brown, to be published in ApJ
----------------- 2022 -----------------
- Non-ideal instabilities in sinusoidal shear flows with a streamwise magnetic field by A.E Fraser, I. Cresswell and P. Garaud, JFM, 949, A43
- The Rise of Buoyant Magnetic Structures through Convection with a Background Magnetic Field by B. Manek, C. Pontin and N. Brummell, ApJ, 929, 162
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- ASTRONOMALY: Personalised active anomaly detection in astronomical data by Michelle Lochner and B.A. Basset, Astronomy and Computing, 36, 100481
- Anomaly detection in Hyper Suprime-Cam galaxy images with generative adversarial networks by Kate Storey-Fisher et al. MNRAS, 508, 2946
- X-ray Spectra of Circumgalactic Medium Around Star-Forming Galaxies: Connecting Simulations to Observations by Aditi Vijayan and Miao Li, MNRAS, 510, 568
- Pushing automated morphological classifications to their limits with the Dark Energy Survey by Vega-Ferrero et al., MNRAS, 506, 1297
- Beyond the hubble sequence - exploring galaxy morphology with unsupervised machine learning by Ting-yun Cheng et al. MNRAS, 503, 4446
- Realistic mock observations of the sizes and stellar mass surface densities of massive galaxies in FIRE-2 zoom-in simulations by Tyler Parsotan, Rachel Cochrane et al., MNRAS, 501, 1591
- A deep learning approach to test the small-scale galaxy morphology and its relationship with star formation activity in hydrodynamical simulations by Lorenzo Zanisi , et al., MNRAS, 501, 4359
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- Unsupervised machine learning for transient discovery in deeper, wider, faster light curves by Sara Webb et al, MNRAS, 498, 3077
- Photometric properties of reionization-epoch galaxies in the SIMBA simulations by Xiaohan Wu et al. MNRAS, 494, 5636
- Kinematics and Dynamics of Multiphase Outflows in Simulations of the Star-forming Galactic Interstellar Medium by Aditi Vijayan et al. APJ, 894, id12
- Properties of the simulated circumgalactic medium by Cassandra Lochhaas, et al., MNRAS, 493, 1461
- The breakBRD Breakdown: Using IllustrisTNG to Track the Quenching of an Observationally Motivated Sample of Centrally Star-forming Galaxies by Claire Kopenhafer et al., ApJ, 903, 143
- Detecting the cosmic web: Lyα emission from simulated filaments at z = 3 by Lydia Elias, et al., MNRAS, 494, 5439
- From the inner to outer Milky Way: a photometric sample of 2.6 million red clump stars by Madeline Lucey, et al., MNRAS, 495, 3087
- Simulating the Diverse Instabilities of Dust in Magnetized Gas by Phil Hopkins, Jonathan Squire, and Darryl Seligman , MNRAS, 496, 2123
- Cosmological baryon transfer in the SIMBA simulations by Josh Borrow , Daniel Angles-Alcazar, Romeel Dave, MNRAS, 491, 6102
----------------- 2019 -----------------
- What Is Inside Matters: Simulated Green Valley Galaxies Have too Centrally Concentrated Star Formation by Tjitske Sarkenburg et al., ApJ, 874, L17
- STROOPWAFEL: Simulating rare outcomes from astrophysical populations, with application to gravitational-wave sources by Floor Broekgaarden et al., MNRAS, 490, 5228
- Predictions for the spatial distribution of the dust continuum emission in 1< z< 5 star-forming galaxies by Rachel Cochrane et al., MNRAS, 488, 1779
- Massive Stellar Mergers as Precursors of Hydrogen-rich Pulsational Pair Instability Supernovae by Alejandro Vigna-Gomez et al., The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 876, L29.
- Evolution of supernovae-driven superbubbles with conduction and cooling by Kareem el-Badry et al. , MNRAS, 490, 1961
- Non-linear evolution of the resonant drag instability in magnetized gas by Darryl Seligman , Phil Hopkins and Jonathan Squire, MNRAS, 485, 3991
- Theoretical Reflectance Spectra of Earth-Like Planets through Their Evolutions: Impact of Clouds on the Detectability of Oxygen, Water, and Methane with Future Direct Imaging Missions by Yui Kawashima and Sarah Rugheimer, The Astronomical Journal, 157, 213
- The Sub-Neptune Desert and Its Dependence on Stellar Type: Controlled by Lifetime X-Ray Irradiation by George McDonald , L. Kreidberg and E. Lopez, ApJ, 876, 1
- Atmospheres on Nonsynchronized Eccentric-tilted Exoplanets I: Dynamical Regimes by Kazumasa Ohno & Xi Zhang, ApJ, 874, 2
- Atmospheres on Nonsynchronized Eccentric-tilted Exoplanets I: Thermal Light Curves by Kazumasa Ohno & Xi Zhang, ApJ, 874, 1
- A luminosity distribution for kilonovae based on short gamma-ray burst afterglows by Stefano Ascenzi et al., MNRAS, 486, 672
----------------- 2018 -----------------
- Eccentric Black Hole Mergers in Dense Star Clusters: The Role of Binary-Binary Encounters by Michael Zevin , Johan Samsing, Carl Rodriguez, Carl-Johan Haster, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, ApJ, 871, 91
- Characterizing Earth Analogs in Reflected Light: Atmospheric Retrieval Studies for Future Space Telescopes by Feng, K, et al., AJ, 155, 200
- Full Band All-sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the O1 LIGO Data by The LiGO Scientific Collaboration, et al., Phys. Rev. D, 97, 102003.
- Exploring H2O prominence in reflection spectra of cool giant planets by Ryan J. MacDonald, Mark Marley, Jonathan Forney and Nikole K. Lewis, ApJ, 858, 69
- SPIDERMAN: an open-source code to model phase curves and secondary eclipses by Tom Louden and Laura Kreidberg, MNRAS, 477, 2613
- Using Spin to Understand the Formation of LIGO and Virgo’s Black Holes by Farr et al., APJL, 854, L9
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- First narrow-band search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in advanced detector data by The LiGO Scientific Collaboration, et al., Phys. Rev. D., 96, 122006.
- Origin of the heavy elements in binary neutron-star mergers from a gravitational-wave event by Kasen et al., Nature, 551, 80
- A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant by Abbott et al., Nature, 551, 85
- Swope Supernova Survey 2017a (SSS17a), the optical counterpart to a gravitational wave source by Coulter et al., Science, 358, 1556
- Light curves of the neutron star merger GW170817/SSS17a: Implications for r-process nucleosynthesis by Drout et al., Science, 358, 1570
- Early spectra of the gravitational wave source GW170817: Evolution of a neutron star merger by Shappee et al., Science, 358, 1574
- Electromagnetic evidence that SSS17a is the result of a binary neutron star merger by Kilpatrick et al., Science, 358, 1583
- Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger by Abott et al., ApJL, 848, L12
- The Unprecedented Properties of the First Electromagnetic Counterpart to a Gravitational-wave Source by Siebert et al., ApJL, 848, L26
- The Old Host-galaxy Environment of SSS17a, the First Electromagnetic Counterpart to a Gravitational-wave Source by Pan et al., ApJL, 848, L30
- A Neutron Star Binary Merger Model for GW170817/GRB 170817A/SSS17a by Murguia-Berthier et al., ApJL, 848, 34
- Constraining Formation Models of Binary Black Holes with Gravitational-wave Observations by Zevin et al., ApJ, 846, 82
- Using ice and dust lines to constrain the surface densities of protostellar disks, by Diana Powell, Ruth Murray-Clay and Hilke Schlichting, ApJ 840, 93.
- Challenges to constraining exoplanet masses via transmission spectroscopy, by Natasha Batalha, Eliza Kempton and Rostom Mbarek, ApJ, 836, L5.
- Information content analysis for the optimal selection of JWST observing modes for transiting exoplanet atmospheres, by Natasha Batalha and Michael Line, ApJ 153, 151.
- Sulfur hazes in giant exoplanet atmospheres: impact on the reflected light spectra by Peter Gao, Mark Marley, Kevin Zahnle, Ty Robinson, and Nikole Lewis, ApJ, 153, 139.
- Metal enrichment leads to low atmospheric C/O ratio in transiting giant exoplanets, by Nestor Espinoza, Jonathan Fortney, Yamila Miguel, Daniel Thorngren and Ruth Murray-Clay, ApJ Letters, 838, L9.
- Revealing a spiral-shaped molecular cloud in our galaxy: Cloud fragmentation under rotation and gravity , by Guang-Xing Li, Friedrich Wyrowski, and Karl Menten, A&A, 598, 96.
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- Effect of surface-mantle water exchange parameterizations on exoplanet ocean depths by Thaddeus Komacek and Dorian Abbott, ApJ, 832, 54
----------------- 2015 -----------------
- Evolution of star clusters on eccentric orbits by Maxwell Cai, Mark Gieles, Douglas Heggie and Anna-Lisa Varri, A&A, 445, 596.
- Torque on an exoplanet from an anisotropic evaporative wind, by Jean Teyssandier, James Owen, Fred Adams, and Alice Quillen, MNRAS, 452, 1743.
- Shell instability of a collapsing dense core by Eva Ntormousi and Patrick Hennebelle, A&A, 574, A130.
- Secular dynamics of hierarchical quadruple systems: the case of a triple system orbited by a fourth body by Adrian Hamers, Hagai Perets, Fabio Antonini, and Simon Portegies-Zwart, MNRAS, 449, 4221.
- Neutron star natal kicks and the long-term survival of star clusters by Filippo Contenta, Anna-Lisa Varri, and Douglas Heggie, MNRAS Letters, 449, L100.
- Biases in the inferred mass-to-light ratio of globular clusters: no need for variations in the stellar mass function, by Rosemary Shanahan and Mark Gieles, MNRAS Letters, 448, L94.
- Cross Sections for Planetary Systems Interacting with Passing Stars and Binaries, by Gongjie Li and Fred Adams, MNRAS, 448, 344.
- The inefficiency of satellite accretion in forming extended star clusters, by Paolo Bianchini, Florent Renaud, Mark Gieles and Anna-Lisa Varri, MNRAS Letters, 447, L40-44.
----------------- 2014 -----------------
- Stoked nondynamos: sustaining field in magnetically non-closed systems, by Ben Byington, Nic Brummell, Jennifer Stone and Douglas Gough, New Journal of Physics, 16, 8.
- Atmospheric Circulation of Brown Dwarfs: Jets, Vortices and Time Variability, by Xi Zhang and Adam Showman, ApJ Letters, 788, L6.
----------------- 2013 -----------------
- Colliding planetary and stellar winds: Charge exchange and transit spectroscopy in neutral Hydrogen" by Pascal Tremblin and Eugene Chiang, MNRAS, 428, 2565
- Atmospheric Heat Redistribution on Hot Jupiters , by Daniel Perez-Becker and Adam Showman, ApJ, 776, 134
- 3D mixing in hot Jupiter atmospheres I: application to the day/night cold trap in HD 209458b , by Vivien Parmentier, Adam Showman, and Yuan Lian, A&A, 558, 91
- Atmospheric circulation of hot Jupiters: insensitivity to initial conditions, by Beibei Liu and Adam Showman, ApJ, 770, 42
- From dust to planetesimals: an improved model for collisional growth in protoplanetary disks , by Pascale Garaud, Farzana Meru, Marina Galvagni, and Christoph Olczak, ApJ, 764, 146
- On the unusual gas composition in the Beta Pictoris debris disk" by Jiwei Xie, Alexis Brandeker and Yanqin Wu, ApJ, 762, 114
- Growth of grains in brown dwarf disks , by Farzana Meru, Marina Galvagni, and Christoph Olczak, ApJ Letters, 774, L4.
----------------- 2012 -----------------
- Ohmic Dissipation in the Interiors of Hot Jupiters by Xu Huang and Andrew Cumming, ApJ, 757, 47
- The missing cavities in the SEEDS polarized scattered light images of transitional protoplanetary disks: a generic disk model" by Ruobing Dong et al., ApJ, 750, 161
- A new model for mixing by double-diffusive convection (semi-convection): I. The conditions for layer formation" by G. Mirouh, P. Garaud, S. Stellmach, A. Traxler and T. Wood, ApJ, 750, 61
- REBOUND: An open-source multi-purpose N-body code for collisional dynamics by Hanno Rein and Shangfei Liu, A&A, 537, 128
- Radius Dependent Angular momentum Evolution in Low Mass Stars. I. by Subhanjoy Mohanty and Ansgar Reiners, ApJ, 746, 43
- Chemical signatures of the formation processes in the stellar populations of simulated galaxies by Patricia Tissera, S.D.M. White and C. Scannapieco, MNRAS, 420, 255
----------------- 2011 -----------------
- Pair dispersion in turbulence: the subdominant role of scaling by Mark Rast and Jean-Francois Pinton, Physical Review Letters, 107, 214501
- Competing kinematic dynamo mechanisms in rotating convection with shear, by M.R.E. Poctor and D.W. Hughes, in Proc. IAU Symp. 271 (eds. N.H. Brummell and A.S. Brun) page 239
- Chemical evolution during gas-rich galaxy interactions by Josefa Perez, Leo Michel-Dansac and Patricia Tissera, MNRAS, 417,580
- Rapid inward migration of planets formed by gravitational instability by Clement Baruteau, Farzana Meru and Sijme Jan Paardekooper, MNRAS, 416, 1971
- The Sun's meridional circulation and interior magnetic field by Toby Wood, Jeremy McCaslin and Pascale Garaud, ApJ, 738, 47
- Spin down of protostars through gravitational torques , by Min-Kai Lin, Mark R. Krumholz, and Kaitlin Kratter, MNRAS, 416, 580
- Metallicity and the Universality of the IMF , by Andrew T. Myers, Mark R. Krumholz, Richard I. Klein, Christopher F. McKee, ApJ, 735, 49
- Radiative Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities , by Emmanuel Jacquet and Mark Krumholz, ApJ, 730, 116