This is a suggested reading list for the 2016 PiTP Program, "Computational Plasma Astrophysics." Participants may wish to review the listed material. This list may be updated, so please check back regularly for new items.
July 22, 2016 - UPDATED - Texts posted for Matthew Kunz
June 23, 2016 - UPDATED - Reading posted for Tamara Munzner
June 13, 2016 - UPDATED - Reading posted for John ZuHone
The reading list is sorted by lecturer.
Michael Barnes, University of Oxford:
-H. Boozer (2004), Physics of magnetically confined plasmas, Reviews of Modern Physics 76, 1071-1138
https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.76.1071
Charles Gammie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
- J. Pringle (1981), “Accretion disks in astrophysics”, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 19, 137
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1981ARA%26A..19..137P
- S. Balbus and J. Hawley I(1998), “Instability, turbulence, and enhanced transport in accretion disks”, Rev. Mod. Phys. 70, 1
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1998RvMP...70....1B
- C. Gammie, J. McKinney, and G. Toth (2003), “HARM: A numerical scheme for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics”, Astrophys. J., 589, 444
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003ApJ...589..444G
- M. Begelman (2014), “Accreting black holes”, to be published in the proceedings of the 26th Solvay Conference on Physics: "Astrophysics and Cosmology", R. Blandford and A. Sevrin, eds. (arXiv1410.8132) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014arXiv1410.8132B
Matthew Kunz, Princeton University:
- Braginskii, S. I. 1965 "Transport Processes in a Plasma", Reviews of Plasma Physics, 1, 205 PDF
- Chew, G. F., Goldberger, M. L. & Low, F. E. 1956 "The Boltzmann Equation and the One-Fluid Hydromagnetic Equations in the Absence of Particle Collisions", Proceeding of the Royal Society of London Series A, 236, 112 PDF
- Kulsrud, R. M. 1983 "MHD Description of Plasma" in Basic Plasma Physics: Selected Chapters, Handbook of Plasma Physics, Volume 1 (ed. A. A. Galeev & R. N. Sudan), 1 PDF
Luis Lehner, Perimeter Institute:
- M. Alcubierre et al. (2008), Introduction to 3+1 Numerical Relativity (Oxford University Press)
- C. Gundlach, J. M. Martin-Garcia, G. Calabrese, & I. Hinder (2005), “Constraint damping in the Z4 formulation and harmonic gauge”, arXiv:gr-qc/0504114
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005gr.qc.....4114G
- C. Palenzuela, L. Lehner, & S. Yoshida (2009), “Understanding possible electromagnetic counterparts to loud gravitational wave events: Binary black hole effects on electromagnetic fields”, Phys. Rev. D, 81, id. 084007
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010PhRvD..81h4007P
- C. Palenzuela, T. Garrett, L. Lehner, & S. L. Liebling (2010), “Magnetospheres of black hole systems in force-free plasma”, Phys. Rev. D, 82, id. 044045
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010PhRvD..82d4045P
- C. Palenzuela, L. Lehner, O. Reula, & L. Rezzolla (2009), “Beyond ideal MHD: towards a more realistic modelling of relativistic astrophysical plasmas”, MNRAS, 394, 1727
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009MNRAS.394.1727P
Tamara Munzner, University of British Columbia (NEW - Updated June 23, 2016):
- T. Munzner (2009), "Visualization", in Fundamentals of Graphics, Third Edition, P. Shirley et al., Chapter 27, 675-707
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/imager/tr/2009/VisChapter/akp-vischapter.pdf
- J. Heer, M. Bostock, & V. Ogievetsky (2010< "A Tour through the Visualization Zoo", Communications of the ACM, 53(6), pp. 59-67
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/6/92482-a-tour-through-the-visualization-zoo/pdf
Eve Ostriker, Princeton University:
- C.-G. Kim, E. C. Ostriker, & W.-T. Kim (2013), “Three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of multiphase galactic disks with star formation feedback. I. Regulation of star formation rates”, ApJ, 776, id. 1
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJ...776....1K
- M. A. Skinner & E. C. Ostriker (2015), “Numerical simulations of turbulent molecular clouds regulated by reprocessed radiation feedback from nascent super star clusters”, ApJ, 809, id. 187
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ApJ...809..187S
Eliot Quataert, University of California, Berkeley:
- P. A. Armitage (2011), “Dynamics of protoplanetary disks”, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 49, 195-236
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ARA%26A..49..195A
- Chapter 12 of R. Kulsrud, Plasma Physics for Astrophysics " (book). The earlier chapters of this book provide an excellent introduction to many other topics that will be discussed in the school.
- C. M. Booth et al. (2013), “Simulations of disk galaxies with cosmic ray driven winds”, Astrophys. J. 777, id. L16
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJ...777L..16B
Anatoly Spitkovsky, Princeton University:
- C.K. Birdsall and A.B. Langdon, Plasma Physics via Computer Simulation (book)
- J. P. Verboncoeur (2005), “Particle simulation of plasmas: review and advances” Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion, 47, A231 http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0741-3335/47/5A/017/meta
- T. Esirkepov (2001), "Exact charge conservation scheme for PIC simulation with an arbitrary form-factor", Comp. Phys. Comm. 135, 144 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010465500002289
- Plasma Simulation Code (PSC) description:
http://www.physik.uni-muenchen.de/lehre/vorlesungen/wise_09_10/tvi_mas_compphys/vorlesung/Lecturescript.pdf
Jim Stone, Princeton University:
- F. H. Shu, The Physics of Astrophysics: Gas Dynamics, Volume 2 (book)
- D. Mihalas and B. Mihalas, Foundations of Radiation Hydrodynamics (book)
- R. LeVeque, Finite Volume Methods for Hyperbolic Problems (book)
- J. Stone et al. (2008), “Athena: A New Code for Astrophysical MHD”, Astrophys. J. Suppl. 178, 137, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ApJS..178..137S
Alexander Tchekhovskoy, University of California, Berkeley:
- C. Gammie, J. McKinney, and G. Toth (2003), “HARM: A numerical scheme for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics”, Astrophys. J., 589, 444, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003ApJ...589..444G
Olindo Zanotti, University of Trento:
- Chapters 2 and 3 of J. S. Hesthaven and T. Warburton, Nodal Discontinuous Galerkin Methods: Algorithms, Analysis, and Applications (book)
- Sections 10.3 and 10.4 of L. Rezzolla and O. Zanotti, Relativistic Hydrodynamics (book)
- O. Zanotti, F. Fambri, and M. Dumbser (2015), “Solving the relativistic magnetohydrodynamics equations with ADER discontinuous Galerkin methods, a posteriori subcell limiting and adaptive mesh refinement”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452, 3010-3029, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015MNRAS.452.3010Z
- D. Radice and L. Rezzolla (2011), “Discontinuous Galerkin methods for general-relativistic hydrodynamics: Formulation and application to spherically symmetric spacetimes”, Physical Review D, 84, id. 024010, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011PhRvD..84b4010R
- Teukolsky, S. 2015, “Formulation of discontinuous Galerkin methods for relativistic astrophysics”, arXiv:1510.01190, http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.01190
John ZuHone, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory: (NEW - UPDATED June 13, 2016)
Ellen Zweibel, University of Wisconsin:
- Chapter 12 of R. Kulsrud, Plasma Physics for Astrophysics (book). The earlier chapters of this book provide an excellent introduction to many other topics that will be discussed in the school.
- A. Grenier, J. H. Black, & A. W. Strong (2015), "The nine lives of cosmic rays in galaxies", Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 53, 199
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ARA%26A..53..199G
- E. Zweibel (2013), "The microphysics and macrophysics of cosmic rays", Physics of Plasmas, 20, 055501
