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Our Research Team

Core Members

Responsible for simulation design, execution, and scientific direction.

Prof. Aaron Smith profile picture

University of Texas at Dallas

Dr. Xuejian [Jacob] Shen profile picture

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Prof. Mark Vogelsberger profile picture

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Prof. Volker Springel profile picture

Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

Dr. Rüdiger Pakmor profile picture

Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

Teodora-Elena Bulichi profile picture

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Team Members

Advancing Lumina through focused analyses and lead-author publications.

Meredith Neyer profile picture

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ali Sadain profile picture

University of Texas at Dallas

Participating Institutions

Acknowledgements

The Lumina project acknowledges support from many sources.

Support for programs JWST-AR-08709 (AS) and JWST-AR-04814 (XS) were provided by NASA through a grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-03127. RK acknowledges support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) through a Discovery Grant and a Discovery Launch Supplement, funding reference numbers RGPIN-2024-06222 and DGECR-2024-00144, and from York University's Global Research Excellence Initiative. MV acknowledges support through NASA ATP Grant 23-ATP23-149 and NSF AAG Grant AST-2307699.

An award of computer time was provided by the INCITE program. This research used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is supported by the Advanced Scientific Computing Research programs in the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725. The flagship simulation was run on Frontier. We gratefully acknowledge the MIT Office of Research Computing and Data, FAS Division of Science Research Computing Group at Harvard University, and High Performance Computing at The University of Texas at Dallas (HPC@UTD) for providing resources that contribute to research results.

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