Scott is a theoretical/computational astrophysicist interested in black holes, their accretion disks, and the radiation magnetohydrodynamics physics inherent to those systems. He knows a bit about computational methods of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) codes, and lately uses them to simulate accreting systems about single and binary black holes. He has also designed novel time-dependent grid techniques (e.g., dynamic nonuniform grids, overlapping misaligned multi-patch methods) to capture the variety of time/space scales often encountered in these systems, and is now expanding his repertoire of methods to include nuclear physics techniques for simulating the bright electromagnetic and gravitational wave signals produced by neutron star mergers.
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Taught a 1-week Master's-level Physics cours on general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics as part of the “Explorations in Numerical Relativity” course at the Perimeter Scholars International program.
Werneck, L. R., Z. B. Etienne, A. Murguia-Berthier, et al. R. Haas, F. Cipolletta, S. C. Noble, L. Ennoggi, F. G. Lopez Armengol, B. Giacomazzo, T. Assumpção, J. Faber, T. Gupte, B. J. Kelly, and J. H. Krolik. 2023. "Addition of tabulated equation of state and neutrino leakage support to illinoisgrmhd." Physical Review D, 107 (4): 044037 [10.1103/physrevd.107.044037]
Lopez Armengol, F. G., Z. B. Etienne, S. C. Noble, et al. B. J. Kelly, L. R. Werneck, B. Drachler, M. Campanelli, F. Cipolletta, Y. Zlochower, A. Murguia-Berthier, L. Ennoggi, M. Avara, R. Ciolfi, J. Faber, G. Fiacco, B. Giacomazzo, T. Gupte, T. Ha, J. H. Krolik, V. Mewes, R. O’Shaughnessy, J. M. Rueda-Becerril, and J. Schnittman. 2022. "Handing off the outcome of binary neutron star mergers for accurate and long-term postmerger simulations." Physical Review D, 106 (8): 083015 [10.1103/physrevd.106.083015]
Murguia-Berthier, A., S. C. Noble, L. F. Roberts, et al. E. Ramirez-Ruiz, L. R. Werneck, M. Kolacki, Z. B. Etienne, M. Avara, M. Campanelli, R. Ciolfi, F. Cipolletta, B. Drachler, L. Ennoggi, J. Faber, G. Fiacco, B. Giacomazzo, T. Gupte, T. Ha, B. J. Kelly, J. H. Krolik, F. G. Lopez Armengol, B. Margalit, T. Moon, J. D. Schnittman, R. O'Shaughnessy, J. M. Rueda-Becerril, Y. Zenati, and Y. Zlochower. 2021. "HARM3D+NUC: A new method for simulating the post-merger phase of binary neutron star mergers with GRMHD, tabulated EOS and neutrino leakage." Astrophysical Journal, 919 (2): 95-110 [10.3847/1538-4357/ac1119]
Kelly, B. J., Z. B. Etienne, J. Golomb, et al. J. D. Schnittman, J. G. Baker, S. C. Noble, and G. Ryan. 2021. "Electromagnetic emission from a binary black hole merger remnant in plasma: Field alignment and plasma temperature." Physical Review D, 103 (6): 063039 [10.1103/physrevd.103.063039]
Kinch, B. E., S. C. Noble, J. D. Schnittman, and J. H. Krolik. 2020. "Inverse Compton Cooling in the Coronae of Simulated Black Hole Accretion Flows." The Astrophysical Journal, 904 (2): 117 [10.3847/1538-4357/abc176]
Ryu, T., J. Krolik, T. Piran, and S. C. Noble. 2020. "Tidal Disruptions of Main-sequence Stars. IV. Relativistic Effects and Dependence on Black Hole Mass." The Astrophysical Journal, 904 (2): 101 [10.3847/1538-4357/abb3cc]
Ryu, T., J. Krolik, T. Piran, and S. C. Noble. 2020. "Tidal Disruptions of Main-sequence Stars. III. Stellar Mass Dependence of the Character of Partial Disruptions." The Astrophysical Journal, 904 (2): 100 [10.3847/1538-4357/abb3ce]
Ryu, T., J. Krolik, T. Piran, and S. C. Noble. 2020. "Tidal Disruptions of Main-sequence Stars. II. Simulation Methodology and Stellar Mass Dependence of the Character of Full Tidal Disruptions." The Astrophysical Journal, 904 (2): 99 [10.3847/1538-4357/abb3cd]
Ryu, T., J. Krolik, T. Piran, and S. C. Noble. 2020. "Tidal Disruptions of Main-sequence Stars. I. Observable Quantities and Their Dependence on Stellar and Black Hole Mass." The Astrophysical Journal, 904 (2): 98 [10.3847/1538-4357/abb3cf]
Murguia-Berthier, A., A. Batta, A. Janiuk, et al. E. Ramirez-Ruiz, I. Mandel, S. C. Noble, and R. W. Everson. 2020. "On the Maximum Stellar Rotation to form a Black Hole without an Accompanying Luminous Transient." The Astrophysical Journal, 901 (2): L24 [10.3847/2041-8213/abb818]
Porth, O., K. Chatterjee, R. Narayan, et al. C. F. Gammie, Y. Mizuno, P. Anninos, J. G. Baker, M. Bugli, C.-K. Chan, J. Davelaar, L. D. Zanna, Z. B. Etienne, P. C. Fragile, B. J. Kelly, M. Liska, S. Markoff, J. C. McKinney, B. Mishra, S. C. Noble, H. Olivares, B. Prather, L. Rezzolla, B. R. Ryan, J. M. Stone, N. Tomei, C. J. White, Z. Younsi, K. Akiyama, A. Alberdi, W. Alef, K. Asada, R. Azulay, A.-K. Baczko, D. Ball, M. Baloković, J. Barrett, D. Bintley, L. Blackburn, W. Boland, K. L. Bouman, G. C. Bower, M. Bremer, C. D. Brinkerink, R. Brissenden, S. Britzen, A. E. Broderick, D. Broguiere, T. Bronzwaer, D.-Y. Byun, J. E. Carlstrom, A. Chael, S. Chatterjee, M.-T. Chen, Y. Chen, I. Cho, P. Christian, J. E. Conway, J. M. Cordes, G. B. Crew, Y. Cui, M. De Laurentis, R. Deane, J. Dempsey, G. Desvignes, S. S. Doeleman, R. P. Eatough, H. Falcke, V. L. Fish, E. Fomalont, R. Fraga-Encinas, B. Freeman, P. Friberg, C. M. Fromm, J. L. Gómez, P. Galison, R. García, O. Gentaz, B. Georgiev, C. Goddi, R. Gold, M. Gu, M. Gurwell, K. Hada, M. H. Hecht, R. Hesper, L. C. Ho, P. Ho, M. Honma, C.-W. L. Huang, L. Huang, D. H. Hughes, S. Ikeda, M. Inoue, S. Issaoun, D. J. James, B. T. Jannuzi, M. Janssen, B. Jeter, W. Jiang, M. D. Johnson, S. Jorstad, T. Jung, M. Karami, R. Karuppusamy, T. Kawashima, G. K. Keating, M. Kettenis, J.-Y. Kim, J. Kim, J. Kim, M. Kino, J. Y. Koay, P. M. Koch, S. Koyama, M. Kramer, C. Kramer, T. P. Krichbaum, C.-Y. Kuo, T. R. Lauer, S.-S. Lee, Y.-R. Li, Z. Li, M. Lindqvist, K. Liu, E. Liuzzo, W.-P. Lo, A. P. Lobanov, L. Loinard, C. Lonsdale, R.-S. Lu, N. R. MacDonald, J. Mao, D. P. Marrone, A. P. Marscher, I. Martí-Vidal, S. Matsushita, L. D. Matthews, L. Medeiros, K. M. Menten, I. Mizuno, J. M. Moran, K. Moriyama, M. Moscibrodzka, C. Müller, H. Nagai, N. M. Nagar, M. Nakamura, G. Narayanan, I. Natarajan, R. Neri, C. Ni, A. Noutsos, H. Okino, T. Oyama, F. Özel, D. C. Palumbo, N. Patel, U.-L. Pen, D. W. Pesce, V. Piétu, R. Plambeck, A. PopStefanija, J. A. Preciado-López, D. Psaltis, H.-Y. Pu, V. Ramakrishnan, R. Rao, M. G. Rawlings, A. W. Raymond, B. Ripperda, F. Roelofs, A. Rogers, E. Ros, M. Rose, A. Roshanineshat, H. Rottmann, A. L. Roy, C. Ruszczyk, K. L. Rygl, S. Sánchez, D. Sánchez-Arguelles, M. Sasada, T. Savolainen, F. P. Schloerb, K.-F. Schuster, L. Shao, Z. Shen, D. Small, B. W. Sohn, J. SooHoo, F. Tazaki, P. Tiede, R. P. Tilanus, M. Titus, K. Toma, P. Torne, T. Trent, S. Trippe, S. Tsuda, I. V. Bemmel, H. J. van Langevelde, D. R. van Rossum, J. Wagner, J. Wardle, J. Weintroub, N. Wex, R. Wharton, M. Wielgus, G. N. Wong, Q. Wu, K. Young, A. Young, F. Yuan, Y.-F. Yuan, J. A. Zensus, G. Zhao, S.-S. Zhao, Z. Zhu, and The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. 2019. "The Event Horizon General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Code Comparison Project." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 243 (2): 26 [10.3847/1538-4365/ab29fd]
Bowen, D. B., V. Mewes, S. C. Noble, et al. M. Avara, M. Campanelli, and J. H. Krolik. 2019. "Quasi-periodicity of Supermassive Binary Black Hole Accretion Approaching Merger." The Astrophysical Journal, 879 (2): 76 [10.3847/1538-4357/ab2453]
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics & Engineering Physics, University of Tulsa
Co-Instructor, Perimeter Institute, Perimeter Scholars International, April 2011:
Instructor, Johns Hopkins University, Intersession 2008 (3 weeks, 27 hours of instruction):
Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin (Spring 2000):
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Scott is a theoretical/computational astrophysicist interested in black holes, their accretion disks, and the radiation magnetohydrodynamics physics inherent to those systems. He knows a bit about computational methods of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) codes, and lately uses them to simulate accreting systems about single and binary black holes. He has also designed novel time-dependent grid techniques (e.g., dynamic nonuniform grids, overlapping misaligned multi-patch methods) to capture the variety of time/space scales often encountered in these systems, and is now expanding his repertoire of methods to include nuclear physics techniques for simulating the bright electromagnetic and gravitational wave signals produced by neutron star mergers.
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Please see the article that NASA helped us produce here:
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Werneck, L. R., Z. B. Etienne, A. Murguia-Berthier, et al. R. Haas, F. Cipolletta, S. C. Noble, L. Ennoggi, F. G. Lopez Armengol, B. Giacomazzo, T. Assumpção, J. Faber, T. Gupte, B. J. Kelly, and J. H. Krolik. 2023. "Addition of tabulated equation of state and neutrino leakage support to illinoisgrmhd." Physical Review D 107 (4): 044037 [10.1103/physrevd.107.044037]
Lopez Armengol, F. G., Z. B. Etienne, S. C. Noble, et al. B. J. Kelly, L. R. Werneck, B. Drachler, M. Campanelli, F. Cipolletta, Y. Zlochower, A. Murguia-Berthier, L. Ennoggi, M. Avara, R. Ciolfi, J. Faber, G. Fiacco, B. Giacomazzo, T. Gupte, T. Ha, J. H. Krolik, V. Mewes, R. O’Shaughnessy, J. M. Rueda-Becerril, and J. Schnittman. 2022. "Handing off the outcome of binary neutron star mergers for accurate and long-term postmerger simulations." Physical Review D 106 (8): 083015 [10.1103/physrevd.106.083015]
Murguia-Berthier, A., S. C. Noble, L. F. Roberts, et al. E. Ramirez-Ruiz, L. R. Werneck, M. Kolacki, Z. B. Etienne, M. Avara, M. Campanelli, R. Ciolfi, F. Cipolletta, B. Drachler, L. Ennoggi, J. Faber, G. Fiacco, B. Giacomazzo, T. Gupte, T. Ha, B. J. Kelly, J. H. Krolik, F. G. Lopez Armengol, B. Margalit, T. Moon, J. D. Schnittman, R. O'Shaughnessy, J. M. Rueda-Becerril, Y. Zenati, and Y. Zlochower. 2021. "HARM3D+NUC: A new method for simulating the post-merger phase of binary neutron star mergers with GRMHD, tabulated EOS and neutrino leakage." Astrophysical Journal 919 (2): 95-110 [10.3847/1538-4357/ac1119]
Kelly, B. J., Z. B. Etienne, J. Golomb, et al. J. D. Schnittman, J. G. Baker, S. C. Noble, and G. Ryan. 2021. "Electromagnetic emission from a binary black hole merger remnant in plasma: Field alignment and plasma temperature." Physical Review D 103 (6): 063039 [10.1103/physrevd.103.063039]
Kinch, B. E., S. C. Noble, J. D. Schnittman, and J. H. Krolik. 2020. "Inverse Compton Cooling in the Coronae of Simulated Black Hole Accretion Flows." The Astrophysical Journal 904 (2): 117 [10.3847/1538-4357/abc176]
Ryu, T., J. Krolik, T. Piran, and S. C. Noble. 2020. "Tidal Disruptions of Main-sequence Stars. IV. Relativistic Effects and Dependence on Black Hole Mass." The Astrophysical Journal 904 (2): 101 [10.3847/1538-4357/abb3cc]
Ryu, T., J. Krolik, T. Piran, and S. C. Noble. 2020. "Tidal Disruptions of Main-sequence Stars. III. Stellar Mass Dependence of the Character of Partial Disruptions." The Astrophysical Journal 904 (2): 100 [10.3847/1538-4357/abb3ce]
Ryu, T., J. Krolik, T. Piran, and S. C. Noble. 2020. "Tidal Disruptions of Main-sequence Stars. II. Simulation Methodology and Stellar Mass Dependence of the Character of Full Tidal Disruptions." The Astrophysical Journal 904 (2): 99 [10.3847/1538-4357/abb3cd]
Ryu, T., J. Krolik, T. Piran, and S. C. Noble. 2020. "Tidal Disruptions of Main-sequence Stars. I. Observable Quantities and Their Dependence on Stellar and Black Hole Mass." The Astrophysical Journal 904 (2): 98 [10.3847/1538-4357/abb3cf]
Murguia-Berthier, A., A. Batta, A. Janiuk, et al. E. Ramirez-Ruiz, I. Mandel, S. C. Noble, and R. W. Everson. 2020. "On the Maximum Stellar Rotation to form a Black Hole without an Accompanying Luminous Transient." The Astrophysical Journal 901 (2): L24 [10.3847/2041-8213/abb818]
Porth, O., K. Chatterjee, R. Narayan, et al. C. F. Gammie, Y. Mizuno, P. Anninos, J. G. Baker, M. Bugli, C.-K. Chan, J. Davelaar, L. D. Zanna, Z. B. Etienne, P. C. Fragile, B. J. Kelly, M. Liska, S. Markoff, J. C. McKinney, B. Mishra, S. C. Noble, H. Olivares, B. Prather, L. Rezzolla, B. R. Ryan, J. M. Stone, N. Tomei, C. J. White, Z. Younsi, K. Akiyama, A. Alberdi, W. Alef, K. Asada, R. Azulay, A.-K. Baczko, D. Ball, M. Baloković, J. Barrett, D. Bintley, L. Blackburn, W. Boland, K. L. Bouman, G. C. Bower, M. Bremer, C. D. Brinkerink, R. Brissenden, S. Britzen, A. E. Broderick, D. Broguiere, T. Bronzwaer, D.-Y. Byun, J. E. Carlstrom, A. Chael, S. Chatterjee, M.-T. Chen, Y. Chen, I. Cho, P. Christian, J. E. Conway, J. M. Cordes, G. B. Crew, Y. Cui, M. De Laurentis, R. Deane, J. Dempsey, G. Desvignes, S. S. Doeleman, R. P. Eatough, H. Falcke, V. L. Fish, E. Fomalont, R. Fraga-Encinas, B. Freeman, P. Friberg, C. M. Fromm, J. L. Gómez, P. Galison, R. García, O. Gentaz, B. Georgiev, C. Goddi, R. Gold, M. Gu, M. Gurwell, K. Hada, M. H. Hecht, R. Hesper, L. C. Ho, P. Ho, M. Honma, C.-W. L. Huang, L. Huang, D. H. Hughes, S. Ikeda, M. Inoue, S. Issaoun, D. J. James, B. T. Jannuzi, M. Janssen, B. Jeter, W. Jiang, M. D. Johnson, S. Jorstad, T. Jung, M. Karami, R. Karuppusamy, T. Kawashima, G. K. Keating, M. Kettenis, J.-Y. Kim, J. Kim, J. Kim, M. Kino, J. Y. Koay, P. M. Koch, S. Koyama, M. Kramer, C. Kramer, T. P. Krichbaum, C.-Y. Kuo, T. R. Lauer, S.-S. Lee, Y.-R. Li, Z. Li, M. Lindqvist, K. Liu, E. Liuzzo, W.-P. Lo, A. P. Lobanov, L. Loinard, C. Lonsdale, R.-S. Lu, N. R. MacDonald, J. Mao, D. P. Marrone, A. P. Marscher, I. Martí-Vidal, S. Matsushita, L. D. Matthews, L. Medeiros, K. M. Menten, I. Mizuno, J. M. Moran, K. Moriyama, M. Moscibrodzka, C. Müller, H. Nagai, N. M. Nagar, M. Nakamura, G. Narayanan, I. Natarajan, R. Neri, C. Ni, A. Noutsos, H. Okino, T. Oyama, F. Özel, D. C. Palumbo, N. Patel, U.-L. Pen, D. W. Pesce, V. Piétu, R. Plambeck, A. PopStefanija, J. A. Preciado-López, D. Psaltis, H.-Y. Pu, V. Ramakrishnan, R. Rao, M. G. Rawlings, A. W. Raymond, B. Ripperda, F. Roelofs, A. Rogers, E. Ros, M. Rose, A. Roshanineshat, H. Rottmann, A. L. Roy, C. Ruszczyk, K. L. Rygl, S. Sánchez, D. Sánchez-Arguelles, M. Sasada, T. Savolainen, F. P. Schloerb, K.-F. Schuster, L. Shao, Z. Shen, D. Small, B. W. Sohn, J. SooHoo, F. Tazaki, P. Tiede, R. P. Tilanus, M. Titus, K. Toma, P. Torne, T. Trent, S. Trippe, S. Tsuda, I. V. Bemmel, H. J. van Langevelde, D. R. van Rossum, J. Wagner, J. Wardle, J. Weintroub, N. Wex, R. Wharton, M. Wielgus, G. N. Wong, Q. Wu, K. Young, A. Young, F. Yuan, Y.-F. Yuan, J. A. Zensus, G. Zhao, S.-S. Zhao, Z. Zhu, and The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. 2019. "The Event Horizon General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Code Comparison Project." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 243 (2): 26 [10.3847/1538-4365/ab29fd]
Bowen, D. B., V. Mewes, S. C. Noble, et al. M. Avara, M. Campanelli, and J. H. Krolik. 2019. "Quasi-periodicity of Supermassive Binary Black Hole Accretion Approaching Merger." The Astrophysical Journal 879 (2): 76 [10.3847/1538-4357/ab2453]