8. Observing the Universe
• Seeing: Most of what we know from photons
• Optical/IR, Radio, frequencies > 10Mhz
• Incoherent superposition, surface processes
• Interact very strongly with matter: can’t see much!
• Take years for photons to emerge from stellar core
• Detecting: Neutrinos and Cosmic Rays
• Neutrinos weakly interacting, completely different
processes
• Yet even neutrinos trapped in stellar core collapse!
• Cosmic rays
• High energy p or nuclei from SN, AGN, ???
• Listening: Gravitational waves
• Predicted by Einstein, only recently directly detected
• Respond to coherent bulk motion of matter
• Omnidirectional, frequencies below 10Khz
Camland Project, Japan
9. Observing the Universe
• Seeing: Most of what we know from photons
• Optical/IR, Radio, frequencies > 10Mhz
• Incoherent superposition, surface processes
• Interact very strongly with matter: can’t see much!
• Take years for photons to emerge from stellar core
• Detecting: Neutrinos and Cosmic Rays
• Neutrinos weakly interacting, completely different
processes
• Yet even neutrinos trapped in stellar core collapse!
• Cosmic rays
• High energy p or nuclei from SN, AGN, ???
• Listening: Gravitational waves
• Predicted by Einstein, very recently directly detected
• Respond to coherent bulk motion of matter
• Omnidirectional, frequencies below 10Khz
Each field undergoing
revolution in next
decade…
Imagine combining them
all to observe the
Universe!
Each results from completely
different process, on different
time scales…
10. Key Questions
• Physics:
• Do gravitational waves exist? Do they travel at speed of light?
• Are other theories of gravity possible?
• How do black hole binaries form with observed masses, spins, etc?
• What happens in a core collapse supernova?
• What is the equation of state of dense matter?
• What are various classes of gamma-ray burst progenitors?
• What is the nature of the expanding universe?
• Compute:
• How to simulate dynamical gravity, magnetized plasma, realistic EOSs,
nuclear reactions, neutrinos, etc.
• How can we measure, analyze, compute, serve information to
communities about all this, with the “exascale” crises at hand?
• How can appropriate software tools be built and verified?
• Collaboration:
• How can grand challenge communities work together?
• How can we make our science reproducible?
• How can we provide data sharing and rapid data analysis?
17. E.g. Multi-Messenger Process: Core Collapse
Photons, GWs, Neutrinos
• Axisymmetry
• Rapidly rotating stellar
collapse
• Can now compute GWs
and neutrino signals
• Full 3D on Blue Waters
• Full 3D GR models for GRB
central engine
understanding
• AMR, MHD
• Exascale simulations
• Track explosion to stellar
surface; 10000x more
expensive; want GW, n, g
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GW strain
Neutrino
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Christian Ott, Caltech, computed on Blue Waters
22. Evolution of a Software Community
• Cactus
• initiated at AEI to
facilitate interaction
between GR codes
from different groups
• defines data model,
restricts itself to glue
between modules
• CactusEinstein
• introduces “Base”
thorns
• horizon finding and
analysis,
• EU network “Sources of
Gravitational Waves”
• Whisky hydro code
• LORENE ID solver
• PostNewtonian equations
matched to Numerial
Relativity
• XiRel
• McLachlan open BSSN code
• GRHydro open Hydro code
• scale Carpet beyond 1000
MPI ranks
• define reproducible
benchmark