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Research Programs
- Formation, physical and chemical processes, physical and excitation conditions, emission mechanisms of Herbig-Haro objects, jets, winds and outflows; structures and dynamics
- Multi-wavelength radiation and kinematic diagnostics and theoretical interpretations of outflow phenomena from young stars of high and low masses: theoretical studies and observational tests, from UV to radio wavelengths
- Numerical simulations and their applications in star formation problems, and visualization: Zeus MHD codes (2D, 3D, and MP); code implementation
- Observations of young stellar objects and their jet/outflow systems; observations with CFHT, CHANDRA, SUBARU, VLA, and SMA; future observations and predictions of jets, winds and outflows and feasibility studies on future missions JWST, ALMA, and SKA
- X-rays from young stars and the Sun; flares and coronal mass ejection; solar and protostellar energetic particles
- Meteorites and the early solar system; physics and chemistry, and origins of planetary materials; connections to on-going star formation processes; Stardust comet sample return; prebiotic materials, and life
Technical Programs
- Building of computational infrastructures and network suitable for computational intensive astrophysical programs
- Building computational clusters with blades—currently approaching 200 accessible CPUs; management of computational systems, system and job deployment, data management and software
- Building of visualization tools and graphical-user-interfaces, code optimization and parallelization, organization of astrophysical application softwares
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