Collision Poster
A poster of one of our white dwarf collision simulations will be on display outside of the SESE office very soon. It will probably also be on display somewhere on the Astronomy floor of the F-wing. Here is the final mockup from Susan Selkirk.
Depicted here, two CO 0.6Msun white dwarfs collide with an impact parameter of 1/2 the white dwarf radius. They detonate as a supernova and end up looking something like Tycho’s SNR shown in the background of the poster. This simulation consisted of approximately 800,000 particles and used a 13 isotope reaction network.
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