James Guillochon's Research Page

Hi, my name is James Guillochon, and I'm an astronomy graduate student at UC Santa Cruz. I'm primarily interested in numerical astrophysics simulations of close encounters between objects in dense stellar systems such as globular clusters and the galactic center. My projects include the tidal disruption of solar-type stars by supermassive black holes, collisions of white dwarfs, and mergers between white dwarfs in binaries.

If you would like to know more about me, please visit my biography page.

Contact E-mail: jfg(at)ucolick.org

Our paper on white dwarf collisions has been featured in an article in Scientific American!

If you are interested in seeing what the collisions look like, I have just posted some movies from the simulations we performed in FLASH to the WD collisions project page. Check them out!

I have just updated the page for my project describing accretion in double degenerate systems. In addition to hosting a high-resolution copy of the paper that will appear on astro-ph later today, I have also posted several movies that show the simulation results. Check it out here!

Welcome to my new webpage/blog! Things are fairly minimal for now, but all of my publications are accessible by clicking the links on the right.