Rick Wagner's Research

This is the site where I keep track of my thesis work. For a complete list of local wiki pages, see TitleIndex.

My Links

• Google+ posts
• My personal site, nothing but opinions and grades, there.
• Facebook, to friend me is to know me.
• My IVOA site.
• US Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO), VO project for the United States.
• My LinkedIn profile.

Publicity

• Video – Discussion Between SDSC and Argonne About the Challenges of Visualizing Large Data Sets
• Interview with Joe Insley of Argonne on Visualizing the Spatial Structure of the Light Emitted in Early Galaxies
• Interview with Rick Wagner SDSC – Simulation of the Formation of the First Galaxies
• Video: Birth of the Universe – Direct Numerical Simulations of Cosmological Reionization
• Submit your physics questions, win cool prizes (image reuse)
• 10 Award-Winning Scientific Simulation Videos
• Supercomputer shares universe simulations
• StarGate Demo at SC09 Shows How to Keep Astrophysics Data Out of Archival "Black Holes"
• Turbulence simulations done at PSC
• BAO Visualizations at ANL
• Image of the week - A star is born - thanks to supersonic turbulence
• Supercomputer Simulation Of Universe May Help In Search For Missing Matter

Publications

Refeered

Flux Correlations in Supersonic Isothermal Turbulence
Rick Wagner, Gregory Falkovich, Alexei G. Kritsuk, Michael L. Norman
10 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Profiles of Dark Matter Velocity Anisotropy in Simulated Clusters
Doron Lemze, Rick Wagner, Yoel Rephaeli, Sharon Sadeh, Michael L. Norman, Rennan Barkana, Tom Broadhurst, Holland Ford, Marc Postman
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 752, Issue 2, article id. 141 (2012).

On the Density Distribution in Star-forming Interstellar Clouds
Alexei G. Kritsuk, Michael L. Norman, Rick Wagner
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 727, Issue 1, article id. L20 (2011)

Quantifying the collisionless nature of dark matter and galaxies in A1689
Doron Lemze, Yoel Rephaeli, Rennan Barkana, Tom Broadhurst, Rick Wagner, Michael L. Norman
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 728, Issue 1, article id. 40 (2011)

Turbulent Motions and Shocks Waves in Galaxy Clusters simulated with AMR
F. Vazza, G. Brunetti, A. Kritsuk, R. Wagner, C. Gheller, M .Norman
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 504, Issue 1, pp.33-43. (2009)

The Statistics of Supersonic Isothermal Turbulence
Alexei G. Kritsuk, Michael L. Norman, Paolo Padoan, Rick Wagner
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 665, Issue 1, pp. 416-431. (2007)

The Santa Fe Light Cone Simulation Project: I. Confusion and the WHIM in Upcoming Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Surveys
Eric J. Hallman, Brian W. O'Shea, Jack O. Burns, Michael L. Norman, Robert Harkness, Rick Wagner
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 671, Issue 1, pp. 27-39. (2007)

Conference Proceedings and Book Chapters

A RESTful catalog for simulations
R. Wagner
Proceedings of the EURO-VO Data Centre Alliance workshop: Theory in the Virtual Observatory

Scaling laws and intermittency in highly compressible turbulence
Alexei G. Kritsuk, Paolo Padoan, Rick Wagner, Michael L. Norman
TURBULENCE AND NONLINEAR PROCESSES IN ASTROPHYSICAL PLASMAS
AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 932, pp. 393-399 2007

Theory SkyNode
Wagner, R.; Norman, M.L.
The National Virtual Observatory: Tools and Techniques for Astronomical Research
ASP Volume 382, 2007

Simulating Cosmological Evolution with Enzo
Michael L. Norman, Greg L. Bryan, Robert Harkness, James Bordner, Daniel Reynolds, Brian O'Shea, Rick Wagner
22 pages, 6 figures. To appear in Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications, Ed. D. Bader, CRC Press LLC (2007)

AMR Simulations of the Cosmological Light Cone: SZE Surveys of the Synthetic Universe
Eric J. Hallman, Brian W. O'Shea, Michael L. Norman, Rick Wagner, Jack O. Burns
3 pages, to appear in proceedings of Heating vs. Cooling in Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies, MPA/ESO/MPE/USM Joint Astronomy Conference

High resolution simulations of supersonic turbulence in molecular clouds
Alexei G. Kritsuk, Rick Wagner, Michael L. Norman, Paolo Padoan
Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows: Astronum-2006
ASP Conference Series, Volume 359, 2006