Hello there, I'm Javier Morán Fraile

Post doctoral researcher in astrophysics based in Heidelberg, Germany

Javier Moran-Fraile

Hello there, I'm Javier Morán Fraile

Post doctoral researcher in astrophysics based in Heidelberg, Germany

Resolved He ignition

The flexibility of AREPO allows us to do funny things like increase the resolution locally, so I decided to follow the region where the helium ignition takes place in our double-detonation simulations, increasing the resolution in such that we have cells with radii of just a couple hundred meters.
The result is this stunning simulation.

Density and temperature


Density and helium abundance