Benjamin D. Oppenheimer's Research Interests

oppen@as.arizona.edu



The History of Metal Enrichment of the Intergalactic Medium

The Pattern of Metal Enrichment of the IGM
The Evolution of Metal-Line Absorbers from z=8->0
Galactic Superwind Feedback
The Assembly History of Galaxies
Cosmic Production of Metals and Abundance Patterns
Metal Lines and Reionization at z>6
The Low-Redshift O VI Forest
The Galaxy-Absorber Connection
IGM Tomography via Metal Lines
X-ray Quasar Absorption Line Spectroscopy

Hydrodynamical Simulations

Yields from Supernovae and AGB Stars in Simulations
Parallelization Strategies
Metal-Line and Non-Equilibrium Cooling
Cosmological Visualizations: Software Development and 3-D Application

The Role of Dust in Astrophysics

Dust-Driven Momentum-Conserving Superwinds
The Production and Destruction of Dust from the Cosmological Perspective
Monte Carlo Modelling of Dust Scattering
Morphology and Grain Chemistry of AGB and post-AGB Stars
Mid-IR AO Imaging and Modelling of Pre-Planetary Nebulae

Variable Star Astronomy

The Behavior of Cataclysmic and Recurrent Novae
Periodicity of Non-Regular Variables
The Evolution of the SN1987A Ring

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