Falk Herwig
@fherwig.bsky.social
Astrophysics prof at University of Victoria interested in how and where the elements form in stars and stellar explosions and how to use anything computing or digital to find out.
With the amazing supercomputing powers of the new Trillium Computer at SciNet/DRAC we were able to dioscover new mixing physics in stars and maybe finally solve a long-standing astronomical problem of how stars produce the elements news.uvic.ca/2026/superco...
Supercomputers help solve long-standing astronomical problem - UVic News
Advances in supercomputing have allowed researchers to further their understanding of the evolution of red giant stars.
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Our new multidisciplinary Nature Reviews Physics article “Unlocking i-process nucleosynthesis by bridging stellar and nuclear physics” (rdcu.be/ePnGP) is a key step in establishing the intermediate neutron-capture (i-process) as an emerging frontier in nuclear astrophysics.
UVic and the Astronomy Research Centre (www.uvic.ca/arc) are so excited about CanSRC on our campus! CanSRC is Canada's data processing centre for the world's largest radio telescope project being built in Australia and South Africa. It is the only one in the Americas. tinyurl.com/mv8tzrph
Information collected by the world’s largest radio telescope will be stored and processed by global data centres
The world’s largest space telescope, comprising thousands of antennae in the southern hemisphere, will generate massive amounts of data — some of which will be processed in Canada.
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The i process has been a key focus at www.canpan.ca for understanding how heavy elements in dynamic stellar nucleosynthesis form. The article in Quanta Magazine "Physicists Start To Pin Down How Stars Forge Heavy Atoms" tinyurl.com/2ze5s3bc tells the story of how this new understanding emerged.
Physicists Start To Pin Down How Stars Forge Heavy Atoms | Quanta Magazine
The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan.
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Join us in congratulating Akshara Viswanathan for being 1 of 3 winners in this year's Gruber Fellowship Awards 🎉👏 Learn more: www.iau.org/Iau/News/Ann... #UVic #UniversityofVictoria #UVicScience #Astronomy #GruberFellowship
We are looking forward to hosting Stellar Hydro Days VI in Victoria next week sites.google.com/view/stellar... A week dedicated to a deep dive into 3D simulations of stars, transport phenomena, internal gravity waves, asteroseismology predictions, wave turbulence and more ....
Congratulations Alan! And thank you for your leadership in the Astronomy Research Centre at @uvic.ca
Physics & Astronomy at UVic@phys-astro-uvic.bsky.social · last yr.Congratulations to Dr. Alan McConnachie, of ARC and NRC-Herzberg, who was named as the recipient of the 2025 CASCA Peter G. Martin award for their Mid-Career Achievement 🎉 #UVic #UVicScience #CASCA #ARC #NRCHerzberg #Astronomy
Great accomplishment @wrtastro.bsky.social !!! William not only did exceptional work in the field of planet imaging but also lead one of our most important projects in recent years in computational stellar astrophysics on internal gravity waves in massive stars ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024MNRA...
Physics & Astronomy at UVic@phys-astro-uvic.bsky.social · last yr.Congratulations to Dr. William Thompson '23, of ARC and NRC-Herzberg, who was named as the recipient of the 2025 CASCA Plaskett Medal and the NRC Herzberg Plaskett Fellowship for Most Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in Astronomy or Astrophysics 🎉 #UVic #UVicScience #CASCA #ARC #NRCHerzberg #Astronomy
First paper by our MSc student Praneet Pathak: model uncertainties in white dwarf cooling ages. For a typical white dwarf, systematic uncertainties can reach 0.8 Gyr at 4000K – comparable to measurement errors! This is key when white dwarfs are used as cosmic clocks. arxiv.org/abs/2410.14014
Canadian astronomers, led by UVic PhD candidate Dori Blakely, have uncovered a groundbreaking look into how planetary systems (like ours!) are born. 🪐 Read about scientists’ innovative use of the James Webb Telescope to capture the early stages of planetary formation: www.uvic.ca/science/home...
Witnessing the birth of planets - University of Victoria
Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). JWST was used to study PDS&...
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Researchers from UVic’s Astronomy Research Centre used the James Webb Space Telescope to captured a rare glimpse of how young planets are forming. This groundbreaking discovery reveals how planets compete with their host star for material shorturl.at/Ei7Fh @ArcUvic #JWST
James Webb telescope glimpse of young planet - University of Victoria
A Canadian-led team of international astronomers has made a groundbreaking discovery about how young planets form and grow using a creative approach with unique tools of the James Webb Space Telescope...
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After an admittedly long gestation period our massive star core convection 3D hydro paper is finally out: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... Again there are many to me very appealing 3D flow images that demonstrate the nature of how stellar plasma swirls around. But two results stand out to me ...
3D Hydrodynamic Simulations of Massive Main-sequence Stars. III. The Effect of Radiation Pressure and Diffusion Leading to a 1D Equilibrium Model - IOPscienceSearchopens in new tabopens in new tab
3D Hydrodynamic Simulations of Massive Main-sequence Stars. III. The Effect of Radiation Pressure and Diffusion Leading to a 1D Equilibrium Model, Mao, Huaqing, Woodward, Paul, Herwig, Falk, Denissenkov, Pavel A., Blouin, Simon, Thompson, William, McDermott, Benjamin
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I am excited to join the bluesky community. I am looking forward to find out what others do in science and computing, and to share new science results and developments from our group in Victoria, BC and from our collaborations: www.nugridstars.org, www.canpan.ca and www.ppmstar.org www.lcse.umn.edu
