Petr Kurfürst
| petrk@physics.muni.cz | |
| Website | physics.muni.cz/~petrk |
| Office address | Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Kotlářská 2, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic |
| 11/2015: | PhD in Astrophysics “Models of Hot Star Decretion Disks” at the Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Faculty of Science at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; PhD advisor: Prof. J. Krtička |
| 06/2010: | MSc in Astrophysics “Astrophysics of Supernovae” at the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; Advisor: Dr. F. Hroch |
| 06/2008: | BSc in Astrophysics “CCD Photometry of Open Cluster NGC 2168” at the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; Advisor: Dr. J. Janík |
POSITIONS:
| 2019-2020 | Researcher in the Department of Theoretical Physics at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic |
| 2018 | Research associate in the Department of Theoretical Physics at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic |
| 2010- | Researcher in the Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic |
Petr is an astrophysicist, a researcher at Masaryk University in Brno and the member of the High-Energy Astrophysics research group. He is mainly interested in the physics of interactions between a wide range of objects, namely between stellar winds or circumstellar disks and interstellar environment, between expanding envelopes of supernovae and a previously formed dense circumstellar matter, and between galactic jets and nearby orbiting stars.
He has also a great interest in computational methods and numerical modeling. During his PhD studies and after them, he successfully developed a set of multidimensional astrophysical codes for studying physics of stellar viscous decretion disks and slow winds and also for high-Mach interactions of fast stellar winds or supernovae expansions with various forms and morphologies of surrounding interstellar medium.
Petr now continues in performing high-resolution simulations and studying in detail the long-term behavior of ablation of outer layers of red giant stars near the Galactig center by the supermassive black hole jet. He also works on multidimensional numerical modeling of circumstellar corotating magnetospheres of hot stars and their effects on various types of outflowing matter.
Selected Publications
- Supernova
explosions interacting with aspherical circumstellar material: Implications for light curves, spectral line profiles,
and polarization (arXiv).
Kurfürst, P., Pejcha, O., Krtička, J., 2020, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 642, A214 - Modeling of
interactions between supernovae
ejecta and aspherical circumstellar environments (arXiv).
Kurfürst, P., Krtička, J., 2019, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 625, A24 - Two-dimensional modeling of density and thermal structure of dense
circumstellar outflowing disks (arXiv).
Kurfürst, P., Feldmeier, A., Krtička, J., 2018, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 613, A75 - Time-dependent numerical
modeling of large-scale astrophysical processes: from relatively smooth flows
to explosive events with extremely sharp discontinuities and high Mach numbers.
Kurfürst, P., Krtička, J., 2017, Applications of Mathematics, 62, 6 - Torsional oscillations and observed rotational period variations
in early-type stars (arXiv).
Krtička, J., Mikulášek, Z., Henry, G. W., Kurfürst, P., 2016, MNRAS, 464, 933 - Magnetorotational instability in the decretion disks of critically
rotating stars and the outer structure of Be and Be/X-ray disks (arXiv).
Krtička, J., Kurfürst, P., Krtičková I. 2015, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 573, A20 - Modeling of extended decretion disks of critically
rotating stars (arXiv).
Kurfürst, P., Feldmeier, A., Krtička, J. 2014, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 569, A23
For a complete list of publications see here