
	Scott C. Noble Associate Research Scientist

Scott C. Noble


Info.
Affiliation:	Center for Astrophysical Sciences Physics and Astronomy Department The Johns Hopkins University
Office:	Bloomberg 529
Office Phone:	(410) 516-4542
Fax:	(410) 516-4477
Homepage:	http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~scn/
Old Homepage:	http://rainman.astro.uiuc.edu/~scn/
Email:
Mailing Address:	Department of Physics and Astronomy 366 Bloomberg Center The Johns Hopkins University 3400 North Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218

With Charles Gammie, Po Kin Leung and Laura Book, I am developing self-consistent models of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), which is the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Please see our paper that has been accepted at CQG. The picture at the top-left of this page is a plot of the logarithm of the intensity of light at 1mm calculated from our Sgr A* model.
With Charles Gammie, Jon McKinney, and Luca Del Zanna, I improved the method for calculating the primitive variables from the conserved variables in general relativistic MHD equations. I continue to work on improving the stability and accuracy of HARM, our GRMHD code. Please see this paper about this work. One may obtain copies of these methods under the GPL from Gammie's Code page.
I completed the public release of the code HARM. The code is used to solve the magnetohydrodyanmic (MHD) equations in curved, stationary spacetimes. In other words, the code is used primarily to simulate non-resistive, non-viscous plasmas around black holes. One may obtain a version of this code under the GPL from Gammie's Code page.
In addition, I have also accomplished research in numerical relativity, general relativistic critical phenomena, nuclear physics, high-energy physics and quantum computation. Further information regarding my past and present research activities may be posted here at a future date.
Meanwhile, an old copy of my Curriculum Vitae is available for browsing. A new one is coming soon.
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JHU Info:	PHA Weekly Calendar, STScI, Library, JHU Calendar, PHA.JHU Computing,
UIUC Info (former location):	Physics Colloquium, Astronomy Dept., Astronomy Colloquium, Library.
PhD Work	Matt Choptuik (my old advisor), his group, UBC Physics,
Journals,Papers,Abstracts,...	ADS Search, ADS Scanned, Arxiv.org, ApJ, PROLA, A&A, MNRAS, CQG,
My Alma Maters:	Caltech (BS, 1997), UT-Austin (PhD 2003), UBC (visiting 2000-3),
Jobs	APS Jobs , AAS Jobs , Physics Today Jobs ,
Misc.	GMAIL , APS , AAS , Google Chart ,