We present a new code for radiation transport around Kerr black holes, including arbitrary emission and absorption terms, as well as electron scattering and polarization. The code is particularly useful for analyzing accretion flows made up of optically thick disks and optically thin coronae. We give a detailed description of the methods employed in the code, and also present results from a number of numerical tests to assess its accuracy and convergence.
@article{arxiv.1302.3214,
title = {A Monte Carlo Code for Relativistic Radiation Transport Around Kerr Black Holes},
author = {Jeremy D. Schnittman and Julian H. Krolik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.3214},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
40 pp, 15 figures, Comments welcome. v2: submitted to ApJ