Radio flares from compact binary mergers
Gravitational-wave (GW) detectors (e.g., advanced LIGO and Virgo) are being constructed now with the goal of detecting gravitational waves from binary neutron-star and/or...   read more...​
Recent publications  
   Nakar, E. & Piran, T, (2011), Nature, 478, 82
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Relativistic jets and the Collapsar model
Propagation of relativistic jets in an extarnal media is a key process in high energy astrophysics. We constructed a self consistent analytic model of that propagation, that account for the collimation shocks....   read more...​
Recent publications  
    Bromberg, O., Nakar, E., Piran, T. & Sari, R. (2011), ApJ submitted.
    Bromberg, O., Nakar, E., Piran, T. & Sari, R. (2011), ApJ, 740, 100
    Bromberg, O., Nakar, E. & Piran, T. (2011), ApJL, 739, L55



Relativistic and Newtonian shock breakouts
The light from the breakout of a shock through the stellar surface is the first electromagnetic signal from any stellar explosion. This light carries a wealth of information on the progenitor and on the explosion itself ...      read more...​
Recent publications
   Nakar, E. & Sari, R. (2011), ApJ in press.
   Nakar, E. & Sari, R. (2010), ApJ, 725, 904



The structure of colissionless shocks 
Collisionless shocks are ubiquitous in astrophysics where supersonic motions in tenuous plasma is common. These shocks take place on all scales, ranging from the interplanetary space...        read more...​
Recent publications
    Nakar, E., Bret, A. & Milosavljević, M. (2011), ApJ, 738, 93   
    Couch, S., Milosavljević, M. & Nakar, E. (2008), ApJ, 688, 462



Short-Hard Gamma-Ray Bursts
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the brightest electromagnetic sources in the Universe. Within seconds these ultra-relativistic sources release more energy than our sun will over its entire life time. Two types of GRBs are observed: short-duration GRBs and...            read more...
Recent publications
    Nakar, E. (2007), Physics Reports, 442, 166
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SGR giant flares, X-rays echos and dust properties in molecular clouds
Soft Gamma-Repeaters (SGRs) are believed to be neutron stars with super QED magnetic fields (magnetars). SGRs release sporadic flares of soft gamma-rays...           read more...
Recent and past publications
    Svirski, G., Nakar, E. & Ofek, E. O. (2011), MNRAS, 415, 2485
    Nakar, E., Piran, T., & Sari, R. (2005), ApJ, 635, 516 
    Nakar, E. et al., (2005), ApJ, 640, 849
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Minority Games (past research on complex systems)
The minority game is a simple, yet realistic model of an evolving population in which individual agents compete for limited resources, without direct interaction between them. In its evolutionary version,...             read more...
Selected publications
    Hod, S. & Nakar, E., (2002), Phys. Rev. Lett 88, 238702
    Nakar, E. & Hod, S., (2003), Phys. Rev. E, 67, 016109

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RESEARCH INTEREST
My current main field of interest is high-energy astrophysics including phenomena such as gamma-ray bursts, supernovae and soft gamma-repeaters and physical processes such as colissionless and radiation mediated shocks, shock breakouts, particle acceleration, relativistic hydrodynamics and radiative transfer. In the past I also studied topics in complex systems and nonlinear dynamics. Below you can find a description of some of the topics that I studied over the years.
Simulation by Stephan Rosswog
Soderberg et al. 2008
Fox et al. 2005