MOCASSIN: 3D photoionisation and dust radiative transfer modelling of PNe
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We present the first 3D Monte Carlo photoionisation code to include a fully self-consistent treatment of dust radiative transfer (RT) within the photoionised region. This is the latest development of the recently published pure photoionisation code MOCASSIN (Ercolano et al., 2003a) and it is currently undergoing several benchmarking tests. The preliminary results of these tests are presented in these conference proceedings. The new code provides the ideal tool for the analysis of dusty ionised regions showing asymmetries and/or density and chemical inhomogeneities
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0407200,
title = {MOCASSIN: 3D photoionisation and dust radiative transfer modelling of PNe},
author = {Barbara Ercolano and M. J. Barlow and P. J. Storey and X. -W. Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0407200},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
2 pages, 1 figure, proceedings to the ESO workshop on PNe beyond the Milky Way, Garching, May 2004