Publications & Talks

Published & Submitted

1. V. Mehta, V. Tiwari, R. Pakmor, D. Singh, & R. Fisher “Hydrodynamical Simulations of Helium-Ignited Binary White Dwarf Mergers.” ApJ 1007, 129, 2026. ApJarXiv:2602.23414
2. V. Mehta, J. Sullivan, R. Fisher, Y. Ohshiro, H. Yamaguchi, K. Bhargava, & S. Neopane “Hydrodynamical Simulations Reveal a Pure Deflagration Origin of the Near-Chandrasekhar Mass Supernova Remnant 3C 397.” MNRAS 532, 1087–1098, 2024. MNRASarXiv:2404.04330

In Preparation

1. M. Jones, V. Mehta, R. Fisher, & A. Bobrick “Simulations of Oxygen-Neon and Carbon-Oxygen White Dwarf Mergers in the Double-Degenerate Channel of Type Ia Supernovae,” In preparation.

Presentations & Invited Talks

• 1. New England SIAM Section Annual Meeting
  Discretized Angular-Momentum Conservation for Self-Gravitating Hydrodynamics on an Eulerian Grid with Adaptive Mesh
  Aug. 2026 · Dartmouth, MA
• 2. AthenaK Summer School — Student Talk Session
  3D Hydrodynamical Simulations of Helium-Ignited Binary White Dwarf Type Ia Supernovae
  Jul. 2026 · University Park, PA
• 3. Connecticut Meeting on the Physics of Type Ia Supernovae
  Implementation of a Modified Version of the Barnes–Hut Tree-Gravity Solver in the FLASH-X Framework
  May 2026 · Storrs, CT
• 4. 247th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society
  Hydrodynamical Simulations of Helium-Ignited Binary White Dwarf Merger
  Jan. 2026 · Phoenix, AZ
• 5. University of Connecticut — Astrophysics Seminar Invited
  Type Ia Supernovae from Helium-Ignited White Dwarf Mergers
  Apr. 2025 · Storrs, CT
• 6. American Physical Society — New England Section Fall Meeting
  Hydrodynamical Simulations of Highly-Neutronized Ejecta in the Near-Chandrasekhar Mass Supernova Remnant 3C 397
  Oct. 2023 · Kingston, RI
• 7. 242nd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society Poster
  Simulations of Neutron-Rich Ejecta of Supernova Remnant 3C 397
  June 2023 · Albuquerque, NM

Schools & Workshops

• AthenaK Summer School
  Penn State University
  Jul. 2026 · University Park, PA
• Connecticut Meeting on the Physics of Type Ia Supernovae
  University of Connecticut
  May 2026 · Storrs, CT
• TARDIS Summer School
  Michigan State University
  Jul.–Aug. 2025 · East Lansing, MI

Honors & Awards

• Dissertation Research Award — Department of Physics, UMass Dartmouth · Apr. 2026
• Image Competition Winner — APS Division of Computational Physics — “Unseen Structures” · Feb. 2026
• Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Award — Honorable Mention, AAS 242 · June 2023
• Graduate Research Award — Department of Physics, UMass Dartmouth · Apr. 2023