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The escape of Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) radiation encodes valuable information on the neutral interstellar medium and is often used as a proxy for the escape of ionizing photons. Yet, the theory of Ly$\alpha$ transfer through anisotropic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-11 Silvia Almada Monter , Max Gronke , Seok-Jun Chang

The Lyman alpha (LyA) line of neutral hydrogen plays a central role in observations of star-forming galaxies. However, resonant scattering makes it difficult to directly interpret LyA signatures. Monte Carlo radiative transfer (MCRT)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-11 Kevin Lorinc , Aaron Smith , Olof Nebrin , Joshua Kasiri

We combine a cosmological reionization simulation with box size of 100Mpc/h on a side and a Monte Carlo Lyman-alpha (Lya) radiative transfer code to model Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs) at z~5.7. The model introduces Lya radiative transfer as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Zheng Zheng , Renyue Cen , Hy Trac , Jordi Miralda-Escude

Resonance lines encode rich information about astrophysical sources and their environments, yet fully analytic treatments of multi-line radiative transfer remain almost entirely unexplored. We present exact, closed-form solutions for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-18 Ethan Stace , Aaron Smith , Kevin Lorinc , Olof Nebrin

We present the methodology of a photon-conserving, spatially-adaptive, ray-tracing radiative transfer algorithm, designed to run on multiple parallel Graphic Processing Units (GPUs). Each GPU has thousands computing cores, making them…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Blake Hartley , Massimo Ricotti

Resonant lines are powerful probes of the interstellar and circumgalactic medium of galaxies. Their transfer in gas being a complex process, the interpretation of their observational signatures, either in absorption or in emission, is often…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-01 Leo Michel-Dansac , Jeremy Blaizot , Thibault Garel , Anne Verhamme , Taysun Kimm , Maxime Trebitsch

We developed a Monte Carlo code that describes the resonant Lyman alpha line transfer in an optically thick, dusty, and static medium. The code was tested against the analytic formula derived by Neufeld (1990). We explain the line transfer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Sang-Hyeon Ahn , Hee-Won Lee , Hyung-Mok Lee

Ly$\alpha$ intensity mapping is emerging as a new probe of faint galaxies consisting the cosmic web that elude traditional surveys. However, the resonant nature of Ly$\alpha$ radiative transfer complicates the interpretation of observed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Hyunbae Park , Hyunmi Song , Chris Byrohl , Aaron Smith , Yajima Hidenobu , Zarija Lukić

We present new simulations of Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) intensity maps that include Ly$\alpha$ radiative transfer in the intergalactic medium (IGM) and all significant sources of Ly$\alpha$ photons. The sources considered include…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-29 Abigail E. Ambrose , Eli Visbal , Mihir Kulkarni , Matthew McQuinn

We present a new code, RCF("Radiative-Collisional code based on FAC"), which is used to simulate steady-state plasmas under non local thermodynamic equilibrium condition, especially photoinization dominated plasmas. RCF takes almost all of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Bo Han , Feilu Wang , David Salzmann , Gang Zhao

Motivated by observational and theoretical work which both suggest very small scale ($\lesssim 1\,$pc) structure in the circum-galactic medium of galaxies and in other environments, we study Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) radiative transfer in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-22 Max Gronke , Mark Dijkstra , Michael McCourt , S. Peng Oh

The measurement of the $21$ cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn is a major goal for several existing and upcoming radio interferometers such as NenuFAR and the SKA. During this era before the beginning of the Epoch of Reionization, the signal is…

Using a Monte Carlo technique, we have developed a 3D lyman-alpha radiation transfer code allowing for prescribed arbitrary hydrogen density, ionisation, temperature structures, and dust distribution, and arbitrary velocity fields and UV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Anne Verhamme , Daniel Schaerer , Antonella Maselli

A Monte Carlo code to solve the transfer of Lyman alpha (Lya) photons is developed, which can predict the Lya image and two-dimensional Lya spectra of a hydrogen cloud with any given geometry, Lya emissivity, neutral hydrogen density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Zheng Zheng , Jordi Miralda-Escude

We present a quantitative model of Lyman-alpha (Ly-alpha) emission throughout cosmic history and determine the prospects for intensity mapping of spatial fluctuations in the Ly-alpha signal. Since i) our model assumes at z>6 the minimum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Anthony Pullen , Olivier Dore , Jamie Bock

It is shown that taking into account a recoil for radiation scattering in the Ly-alpha line can lead to a noticable acceleration of primordial hydrogen recombination. Thus for LambdaCDM model a decrease of ionization degree exceeds 1% for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. I. Grachev , V. K. Dubrovich

This document describes the publically available numerical code "IGMtransfer", capable of performing intergalactic radiative transfer (RT) of light in the vicinity of the Lyman alpha (Lya) line. Calculating the RT in a (possibly adaptively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-17 Peter Laursen

During the epoch of reionization the 21cm signal is sensitive to the scattering rate of the ultraviolet photons, redshifting across the Lyman_alpha resonance. Here we calculate the photon scattering rate profile for a single ultraviolet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Leonid Chuzhoy , Zheng Zheng

Radiative transfer simulations are now at the forefront of numerical astrophysics. They are becoming crucial for an increasing number of astrophysical and cosmological problems; at the same time their computational cost has come to the…

Lyman-{\alpha} emitters (LAEs) are a promising target to probe the large scale structure of the Universe at high redshifts, $z\gtrsim 2$. However, their detection is sensitive to radiative transfer effects that depend on local astrophysical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Siddhartha Gurung-López , Álvaro A. Orsi , Silvia Bonoli , Carlton M. Baugh , Cedric G. Lacey