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Similarity solutions for radiation in time-dependent relativistic flows

Astrophysics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

Exact analytic solutions are derived for radiation in time-dependent relativistic flows. The flows are spherically-symmetric homologous explosions or implosions of matter with a grey extinction coefficient. The solutions are suitable for testing numerical transfer codes, and this is illustrated for a fully relativistic Monte Carlo code.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0409078,
  title  = {Similarity solutions for radiation in time-dependent relativistic flows},
  author = {L. B. Lucy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0409078},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages, 4 figures. Accepted by A&A