In a flash, all of your electronics could be gone, courtesy of a solar storm. However, a … Continue Reading ›› News New Paper: Early X-ray Background 10 Aug 2016 John Wise Leave a comment About a month ago, we submitted a new paper on the build-up of the X-ray radiation background. Here we used the Renaissance Simulations to estimate the number density of high-mass X-ray binaries from the first metal-free (Population III) stars. We found that these binaries produce about 6 eV of energy in the X-rays per … Continue Reading ›› astro-ph 10 Aug 2016 10 Aug 2016 John Wise Leave a comment (abs, pdf) Wiener et al., Cosmic ray-driven galactic winds: streaming or diffusion? (abs, pdf) Vito et al., The deepest X-ray view of high-redshift galaxies: constraints on low-rate black-hole accretion astro-ph 09 Aug 2016 9 Aug 2016 John Wise Leave a comment (abs, pdf) Lehmann et al., SHOCKFIND - An algorithm to identify magnetohydrodynamic shock waves in turbulent clouds (abs, pdf) Ceverino et al., Formation and Settling of a Disc Galaxy During the Last 8 Billion Years in a Cosmological Simulation (abs, pdf) Rossi et al., Evolution of star cluster systems in isolated … Continue Reading ›› astro-ph 05 Aug 2016 5 Aug 2016 John Wise Leave a comment (abs, pdf) Motta et al., The IMF as a function of supersonic turbulence Simulating the Universe