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BSc & MSc Projects
Master Project (2022)
Title: Colliding Galaxies in a (Nut)Shell
Supervisor: Florent Renaud
Project Description: I run numerical simulations of two merging galaxies and their formation into a shell galaxy using the RAMSES code (Teyssier, 2002). Via a parameter survey, I explore different sets of parameters to find an orbtial configuration favourable for shell formation. From that, I perform an idealised high-resolution merger simulation and its formation into a shell galaxy, and analyse how the merger-driven star formation activity evolves throughout time, within the system, what the physical conditions are for it, and how it relates to the formation of shells.
Thesis: LUP Student Papers
Publication (first-author): ArXiv,
MNRAS
Summer Project (2021)
Supervisor: Paul McMillan
Project Description: In Gaia Early Data Release 3, a break in the vertical angular momentum-velocity plane can be disguished (Gaia Collaboration et al., 2021), a break that is suspected to have a dynamical origin. In this project, I explore the possibility of a dynamical origin by running
N-body simulations of a Milky Way-like galaxy perturb by a Sagittarius dwarf impact using the RAMSES code (Teyssier, 2002).
Publication (co-author): ArXiv,
MNRAS
Bachelor Project (2020)
Title: Capture of Interstellar Objects in the Solar system
Supervisor: Daohai Li
Project Description: I estimate the capture rate of InterStellar Objects (ISOs) in the Solar system, using the N-body code MERCURY (Chambers, 1999). From this, I analyse the orbital properties of captured ISOs and how they get captured/ejected.
Thesis: LUP Student Papers