Meeting Update Apr.1

TSF TSF with Mach 1.5 shock:

http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~shuleli/0323/mach1cd.png

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TSF with Mach 2.5 shock:

http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~shuleli/0323/mach2cd.png

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TSF with Mach 3.6 shock:

http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~shuleli/0323/mach3cd.png

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Particle Mass Evolution:

http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~shuleli/0323/mass_evo.png

Mach 5 shock cannot form a star.

Some questions not answered in Boss: 1. how does the timing of star formation depends on the incoming shock speed (Boss is focused on whether formation is possible under certain conditions? from what we see in the above 3 simulations, there seems to be a inverse linear correlation between shock speed and the collapse time. 2. what is the end mass of the star after a long time? There seems to be a saturation for the end speed when the incoming shock is slow (Mach 1.5 and 2.5). The end mass seems to be again inversely correlated to the speed of the incoming shock, when shock speed is not saturated. The behavior can be better characterized with more simulations in the parameter space (Mach 3 and 4). I think we can write a paper by simply characterizing these behavior and maybe device an approximate model…

Weird Visit behavior?
So when I tried to plot the contours and the 3-slice, I got strange things… In the image output, the contour does not show transparency correctly, the 3-slice outputs a yellow colored image… The plots look fine in the viewing window. Tried all versions installed on the local machine, get the same thing.
http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~shuleli/0331/asdf.png
http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~shuleli/0331/tsfmach153s_0100.png

Conferences Just got the email from MU4 on the proceedings, I started revising the proceeding according to their requirements. Star formation local meeting: I'd like to do a talk on recent stuff.

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