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We derive the properties of dusty tori in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) from the comparison of observed Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) of SDSS quasars and a precomputed grid of torus models. The observed SEDs comprise SDSS photometry,…

Our aim is to study the polarization of thermal dust emission to see if the alignment of grain by radiative torques could explain the observed relation between the degree of polarization and the intensity in dense cores. Predictions are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. -M. Pelkonen , M. Juvela , P. Padoan

In order to examine their relation to the host galaxy, the extraplanar dust of six nearby galaxies are modeled, employing a three dimensional Monte Carlo radiative transfer code. The targets are from the highly-inclined galaxies that show…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-20 Jong-Ho Shinn , Kwang-Il Seon

Monte Carlo simulations with the CRISP code were conducted to study spallation and fission fragment distributions induced by intermediate- and high-energy protons and photons on actinide and pre-actinide nuclei. The model accounts for…

General Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Sun Wenming

Recently, the MID-infrared Interferometric instrument (MIDI) at the VLTI has shown that dust tori in the two nearby Seyfert galaxies NGC 1068 and the Circinus galaxy are geometrically thick and can be well described by a thin, warm central…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-06 M. Schartmann , K. Meisenheimer , H. Klahr , M. Camenzind , S. Wolf , Th. Henning

We describe the calculation of the stochastically heated dust emission using the 3D ray-tracing dust radiative transfer code DART-Ray, which is designed to solve the dust radiative transfer problem for galaxies with arbitrary geometries. In…

We present a code for generating synthetic SEDs and intensity maps from Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulation snapshots. The code is based on the Lucy (1999) Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer method, i.e. it follows discrete luminosity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 O. Lomax , A. P. Whitworth

Monte Carlo (MC) neutron transport provides detailed estimates of radiological quantities within fission reactors. This involves tracking individual neutrons through a computational geometry. CPU-based MC codes use multiple polymorphic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Elliott Biondo , Thomas Evans , Seth Johnson , Steven Hamilton

We created an efficient algorithm suitable for graphics processing units (GPUs) to perform Monte Carlo simulations of a subset of reaction-diffusion models. The algorithm uses techniques that are specific to GPU programming, and combines…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 R. D. Schram

The reliability of kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations depends on accurate transition rates. The self-learning KMC method (Trushin et al 2005 Phys. Rev. B 72 115401) combines the accuracy of rates calculated from a realistic potential…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-01-01 A. Latz , L. Brendel , D. E. Wolf

We have measured mid-infrared (MIR) fluxes of 3C sources on images taken with ISOCAM onboard the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO). The photometric data were combined with existing photometry at other wavelengths to assemble the spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wolfram Freudling , Ralf Siebenmorgen

Advancements in infrared IR open up the possibility to spatially resolve AGN on the parsec-scale level and study the circumnuclear dust distribution, commonly referred to as the "dust torus", that is held responsible for the type 1/type 2…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Sebastian F. Hoenig , Makoto Kishimoto , Robert Antonucci , Alessandro Marconi , M. Almudena Prieto , Konrad Tristram , Gerd Weigelt

A novel phase-space source implementation has been designed for GPU-based Monte Carlo dose calculation engines. Due to the parallelized nature of GPU hardware, it is essential to simultaneously transport particles of the same type and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2013-06-21 Reid Townson , Xun Jia , Zhen Tian , Yan Jiang Graves , Sergei Zavgorodni , Steve B Jiang

This paper presents a 6-DoF range-based Monte Carlo localization method with a GPU-accelerated Stein particle filter. To update a massive amount of particles, we propose a Gauss-Newton-based Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD) with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Kenji Koide , Shuji Oishi , Masashi Yokozuka , Atsuhiko Banno

A novel hybrid Monte Carlo transport scheme is demonstrated in a scene with solar illumination, scattering and absorbing 2D atmosphere, a textured reflecting mountain, and a small detector located in the sky (mounted on a satellite or a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Guillaume Bal , Anthony Davis , Ian Langmore

Obscured AGNs provide an opportunity to study the material surrounding the central engine. Geometric and physical constraints on the absorber can be deduced from the reprocessed AGN emission. In particular, the obscuring gas may reprocess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Raj Gohil , David R. Ballantyne

Context: Dust reprocesses about half of the stellar radiation in galaxies. The thermal re-emission by dust of absorbed energy is considered driven merely by young stars and, consequently, often applied to trace the star formation rate in…

This is the second in a series of papers devoted to explore a set of six dusty models of active galactic nuclei (AGN) with available spectral energy distributions (SEDs). These models are the smooth torus by Fritz et al. (2006), the clumpy…

The open source SKIRT Monte Carlo radiative transfer code has been used for more than 15 years to model the interaction between radiation and dust in various astrophysical systems. In this work, we present version 9 of the code, which has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-03 Peter Camps , Maarten Baes

We have used a Monte Carlo radiative transfer code to produce edge-on images of dusty galactic disks, allowing a fraction of the dust to be distributed in clumps. Synthetic images of edge-on galaxies have been constructed for different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Misiriotis , S. Bianchi