Group Blog

Hi! I gave recently a small internal talk about the general approach we are adopting to solve the MHD system of equations that describes the structure of a black hole’s jet. I am uploading the slides, so if there is anybody interested in the subject or just in knowing what we are studying with some […]

Just a quick note, Dr. Salomé Dibi successfully defended her thesis (and did a great job!) on 1 July, so that’s the third one out of the nest (who survived me…)! Congratulations!

I keep trying to get the traffic up from my group but it’s hard to remember to post although there is a lot going on (or because there is a lot going on). Anyway, we have some very nice news this week: 1) Salomé has accepted an offer for a postdoctoral position with Elmar Körding’s

Hi all, my name is Riley Connors, and I arrived in Amsterdam in September to begin my PhD under the supervision of Sera. I’m at the stage now where I’ve encountered most of the teething problems you would associate with moving country, and I’m pretty well settled into life here, both in a work and

The few months “minisabbatical” in Paris was amazing, and very productive.   The downside was that I got pretty behind on updating this page, and I still have a lot of work to do there.   But in the meantime, I want to announce the new group hires, that resulted from two recent searches.  

We have just more or less finalized the program for our Lorentz Center meeting in January, which brings together the Working Group (WG) coordinators from our mega Sgr A* campaign to discuss the science output and strategy etc.   Here’s the link to the meeting: http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2013/561/info.php3?wsid=561&venue=Snellius and to our meeting poster, hot off the press!:

Our new paper is out in Nature this week (advanced online version), and the press releases are a’flying.   We found what’s called an “ultraluminous X-ray source” (ULX) in a nearby galaxy, Andromeda (M31), and for the very first time actually caught its radio emission from the jets evolving over time!  Until now there’s been

Our latest paper entitled “Self-consistent spectra from radiative GRMHD simulations of accretion onto Sgr A*” and presenting our work done on radiative GRMHD simulations of accretion flow has been submitted for publication to MNRAS.

We were very happy to hear today that one of the students on the astronomy blog “astrobites” has ranked Salomé’s and Samia’s poster in the top 5 from the enormous meeting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Beijing!   This poster reports our results on new general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the accretion flow