About

My name is Ulrich Noebauer and I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik in Garching, Germany, working in the research group of Wolfgang Hillebrandt as part of the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre TRR 33, “The Dark Universe”.

Current Research: Supernovae

From the iron in our blood to the silicon in our computer chips, heavy elements are forged when stars die. My research at MPA is dedicated to shedding more light onto a particular class of these stellar deaths, so-called Type Ia Supernovae. For this purpose, I develop, implement and apply advanced numerical techniques to simulate hydrodynamical phenomena and radiative transfer processes in these systems on the computer. In this capacity, I am also an active member of the core development team of the open-source, community-driven Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer code Tardis. Recently, in the course of the master project of Stefan Lietzau that I supervised together with Wolfgang Kerzendorf, I have become very interested in machine learning techniques and in their application to the rapid generation of theoretical observations for Type Ia Supernovae.

In pursuing my research, I closely work with a number of colleagues, most notably with Talytha Barbosa, Sergei Blinnikov, Wolfgang Kerzendorf, Markus Kromer, Friedrich Roepke, Stuart Sim, Stefan Taubenberger and Christian Vogl. I also frequently collaborate with Alexandra Kozyreva and Raphael Hirschi to study the pair instability supernovae mechanism, a potential scenario to explain the most powerful stellar explosions.

Past Research: Radiation Hydrodynamics and Cataclysmic Variables

In the past, I have developed a novel approach to radiation hydrodynamics problems during my PhD. This scheme has been implemented into a numerical tool, called MCRH, and applied supernova ejecta and hot-star winds. Previously, I have used the Monte Carlo radiative transfer techniques (in particular the code PYTHON) to investigate the geometry and ionization structure of the mass outflows from Cataclysmic Variables together with Knox Long at the Space Telescope Science Institute.

If you are interested in these topics, check out my research interests or my publications.

Address

Dr. Ulrich Noebauer

Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik
Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1
D-85748 Garching
Germany

Tel: 089 30000 2297
Email: unoebauer [at] mpa-garching.mpg.de