http://www.craigmbooth.com/ 2012-05-21T01:22:06-04:00 http://www.craigmbooth.com/ http://www.craigmbooth.com/lib/tpl/wallpaper/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-01-25T00:00:23-04:00 http://www.craigmbooth.com/home?rev=1327467623&do=diff Welcome I am a computational astrophysicist at The University of Chicago and an associate fellow at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics. I am interested in all aspects of galaxy formation, especially the interplay between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies and the metal enrichment of the intergalactic medium. Here in Chicago I am currently thinking about extremely high-resolution simulations of gas dynamics around supermassive black holes, the shapes of galaxy cluster… text/html 2012-01-12T16:58:44-04:00 http://www.craigmbooth.com/movies?rev=1326405524&do=diff Movies of simulations I have generated a number of nice structure formation movies from our simulations. On this page these movies are available to download. Feel free to use them in talks and the like. If you see something in one of the movies that raises any questions, or would like any additional information then feel free to email me. text/html 2012-03-20T13:29:52-04:00 http://www.craigmbooth.com/publications?rev=1332264592&do=diff This page contains a list of my publications, including refereed publications, conference proceedings, a poster given as part of a public outreach effort and, finally, my PhD thesis. For quick reference, first author papers have titles. Refereed Publications 25. The interaction between feedback from active galactic nuclei and from supernovae Booth C. M., Schaye J. 2012, MNRAS submitted [ADS] [astro-ph] text/html 2012-04-24T22:46:21-04:00 http://www.craigmbooth.com/research?rev=1335321981&do=diff Research Interests Introduction The local Universe contains a huge diversity of galaxies, from the giant 'dead' elliptical galaxies that are no longer forming stars, to beautiful spiral galaxies much like our own Milky Way. What physics shapes these galaxies? The basic picture is very simple. Small density fluctuations in the dark matter distribution in the early Universe are able to grow through their own self gravity, pulling in surrounding gas. This gas cools and settles into a disk, where …