High-performance computing Lab (HPCLab)
Our research group develops and utilises high-performance and data intensive computing (HPC) methods and applications for heterogeneous NUMA-architectures.
Our spearhead area is astroinformatics, namely methods and tools for simulating and analysing data from complex (astro)physical systems, such as turbulent fluids, the Sun, and interstellar matter in galaxies. The developed methods include simulation tools accelerated with graphics processing units, and data-analysis tools employing machine learning. Our current projects aim at understanding, predicting, and mitigating the harmful effects from solar magnetic activity (ERC consolidator grant UniSDyn, ERC proof-of-concept grant SYCOS, Inno4Scale project NEOSC).
Our spearhead area is astroinformatics, namely methods and tools for simulating and analysing data from complex (astro)physical systems, such as turbulent fluids, the Sun, and interstellar matter in galaxies. The developed methods include simulation tools accelerated with graphics processing units, and data-analysis tools employing machine learning. Our current projects aim at understanding, predicting, and mitigating the harmful effects from solar magnetic activity (ERC consolidator grant UniSDyn, ERC proof-of-concept grant SYCOS, Inno4Scale project NEOSC).
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Evidence of turbulent dynamo action in the Sun
Astroinformatics research group has determined magnetic helicity spectrum from the solar surface observations using the recently developed two-scale formalism.People
Latest publications
COSMOS-Web : Comprehensive Data Reduction for Wide-area JWST NIRCam Imaging
Maximilien Franco, Caitlin M. Casey, Anton M. Koekemoer, Daizhong Liu, Micaela B. Bagley, Henry Joy McCracken, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Hollis B. Akins, Olivier Ilbert, Marko Shuntov, Santosh Harish, Brant E. Robertson, Rafael C. Arango-Toro, Andrew J. Battisti, Nima Chartab, Nicole E. Drakos, Andreas L. Faisst, Carter Flayhart, Ghassem Gozaliasl, Michaela Hirschmann, Richard Massey, Jason Rhodes, Zahra Sattari, Diana Scognamiglio, John R. Weaver, Lilan Yang, Jorge A. Zavala, Edward M. Berman, Fabrizio Gentile, Steven Gillman, Arianna S. Long, Georgios Magdis, Jacqueline E. McCleary, Jed McKinney, Bahram Mobasher, Louise Paquereau, Armin Rest, David B. Sanders, Sune Toft, Si-Yue Yu
2026
Astrophysical Journal
COSMOS Spectroscopic Redshift Compilation (First Data Release) : 488,000 Redshifts Encompassing Two Decades of Spectroscopy
Ali Ahmad Khostovan, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Mara Salvato, Olivier Ilbert, Caitlin M. Casey, Hiddo Algera, Jacqueline Antwi-Danso, Andrew Battisti, Malte Brinch, Marcella Brusa, Antonello Calabro, Peter L. Capak, Nima Chartab, Olivia R. Cooper, Isa G. Cox, Behnam Darvish, Nicole E. Drakos, Andreas L. Faisst, Matthew R. George, Ghassem Gozaliasl, Santosh Harish, Gunther Hasinger, Hossein Hatamnia, Angela Iovino, Shuowen Jin, Daichi Kashino, Anton M. Koekemoer, Ronaldo Laishram, Khee-Gan Lee, Jitrapon Lertprasertpong, Simon J. Lilly, Daizhong Liu, Daniel C. Masters, Bahram Mobasher, Tohru Nagao, Masato Onodera, Yingjie Peng, David B. Sanders, Ryan L. Sanders, Zahra Sattari, Nick Scoville, Ekta A. Shah, John D. Silverman, Nao Suzuki, Sina Taamoli, Masayuki Tanaka, Lidia A. M. Tasca, Sune Toft, Greta Toni, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Jonathan R. Trump, Mattia Vaccari, Francesco Valentino, Brittany N. Vanderhoof, John R. Weaver, Min S. Yun, Jorge A. Zavala
2026
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Mission concept for SURROUND: Operational space weather detection and tracking using small spacecraft
Alejandro Macario-Rojas, Dale Weigt, Luis Alberto Cañizares, Shane A. Maloney, Sophie A. Murray, Peter T. Gallagher, Nicholas Crisp, Ciara McGrath
2026
Acta Astronautica
Anticipating additional exoplanets in multi-planetary systems
M. Mousavi-Sadr, G. Gozaliasl, D. M. Jassur
2026
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
Refining the exoplanet mass-radius relation using machine learning
M. Mousavi-Sadr, G. Gozaliasl, D. M. Jassur
2026
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
An ultra-high-resolution map of (dark) matter
Diana Scognamiglio, Gavin Leroy, David Harvey, Richard Massey, Jason Rhodes, Hollis B. Akins, Malte Brinch, Edward Berman, Caitlin M. Casey, Nicole E. Drakos, Andreas L. Faisst, Maximilien Franco, Leo W.H. Fung, Ghassem Gozaliasl, Qiuhan He, Hossein Hatamnia, Eric Huff, Natalie B. Hogg, Olivier Ilbert, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Anton M. Koekemoer, Shouwen Jin, Erini Lambrides, Alexie Leauthaud, Zane D. Lentz, Daizhong Liu, Guillaume Mahler, Claudia Maraston, Crystal L. Martin, Jacqueline McCleary, James Nightingale, Bahram Mobasher, Louise Paquereau, Sandrine Pires, Brant E. Robertson, David B. Sanders, Claudia Scarlata, Marko Shuntov, Greta Toni, Maximilian von Wietersheim-Kramsta, John R. Weaver
2026
Nature Astronomy
COSMOS-Web galaxy groups : Evolution of red sequence and quiescent galaxy fraction
Greta Toni, Matteo Maturi, Gianluca Castignani, Lauro Moscardini, Ghassem Gozaliasl, Alexis Finoguenov, Sina Taamoli, Fabrizio Gentile, Hollis B. Akins, Rafael C. Arango-Toro, Caitlin M. Casey, Nicole E. Drakos, Andreas L. Faisst, Carter Flayhart, Maximilien Franco, Ali Hadi, Aryana Haghjoo, Santosh Harish, Hossein Hatamnia, Olivier Ilbert, Shuowen Jin, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Ali Ahmad Khostovan, Anton M. Koekemoer, Gavin Leroy, Georgios E. Magdis, Henry Joy Mccracken, Jed Mckinney, Louise Paquereau, Jason Rhodes, R. Michael Rich, Brant E. Robertson, Rasha M. Samir, Diana Scognamiglio, Samaneh Shamyati, Marko Shuntov, Jorge A. Zavala
2026
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Through Thick and Thin : The Cosmic Evolution of Disk Scale Height
Si-Yue Yu, Luis C. Ho, Takafumi Tsukui, John D. Silverman, Marc Huertas-Company, Anton M. Koekemoer, Maximilien Franco, Richard Massey, Lilan Yang, Rafael C. Arango-Toro, Andreas L. Faisst, Ghassem Gozaliasl, Kartik Sheth, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Can Xu, Aryana Haghjoo, Xuheng Ding, Zhaoxuan Liu, Jacqueline E. McCleary
2026
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
ALMA and JWST Identification of Faint Dusty Star-forming Galaxies up to z ∼ 8 and Their Connection with Other Galaxy Populations
Jorge A. Zavala, Andreas L. Faisst, Manuel Aravena, Caitlin M. Casey, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Felix Martinez, John D. Silverman, Sune Toft, Ezequiel Treister, Hollis B. Akins, Hiddo Algera, Karina Barboza, Andrew J. Battisti, Gabriel Brammer, Zheng Cai, Jaclyn Champagne, Nicole E. Drakos, Eiichi Egami, Xiaohui Fan, Maximilien Franco, Yoshinobu Fudamoto, Seiji Fujimoto, Steven Gillman, Ghassem Gozaliasl, Santosh Harish, Xiangyu Jin, Koki Kakiichi, Darshan Kakkad, Anton M. Koekemoer, Ruqiu Lin, Daizhong Liu, Arianna S. Long, Georgios E. Magdis, Sinclaire Manning, Crystal L. Martin, Jed Mckinney, Romain Meyer, Giulia Rodighiero, Victoria Salazar, David B. Sanders, Marko Shuntov, Margherita Talia, Takumi S. Tanaka, Feige Wang, Wuji Wang, Stephen M. Wilkins, Jinyi Yang, Min S. Yun
2026
Astrophysical Journal Letters
Euclid preparation LXXIII. Spatially resolved stellar populations of local galaxies with Euclid : A proof of concept using synthetic images with the TNG50 simulation
C. Tortora, M. Baes, A. Nersesian, I. Kovačić, M. Bolzonella, A. Lançon, L. Bisigello, F. Annibali, M. N. Bremer, D. Carollo, C. J. Conselice, A. Enia, A. M.N. Ferguson, A. Ferré-Mateu, L. K. Hunt, E. Iodice, J. H. Knapen, A. Iovino, F. R. Marleau, R. F. Peletier, R. Ragusa, M. Rejkuba, A. S.G. Robotham, J. Román, T. Saifollahi, P. Salucci, M. Scodeggio, M. Siudek, A. van der Wel, K. Voggel, B. Altieri, S. Andreon, C. Baccigalupi, M. Baldi, S. Bardelli, A. Biviano, A. Bonchi, D. Bonino, E. Branchini, M. Brescia, J. Brinchmann, S. M. Niemi, P. Schneider, Y. Wang, M. Calabrese, G. Gozaliasl, A. Hall, J. Hjorth, S. Lee
2025
Astronomy & Astrophysics