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Accretion onto compact objects plays a central role in high energy astrophysics. In these environments, both general relativistic and plasma effects may have significant impacts upon the spectral and polarimetric properties of the accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Avery Broderick , Roger Blandford

We present a general framework on how the polarization of radiation due to scattering, dichroic extinction, and birefringence of aligned spheroidal dust grains can be implemented and tested in 3D Monte Carlo radiative transfer (MCRT) codes.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 C. Peest , R. Siebenmorgen , F. Heymann , T. Vannieuwenhuyse , M. Baes

We present a new continuum 3D radiative transfer code, MCFOST, based on a Monte-Carlo method. MCFOST can be used to calculate (i) monochromatic images in scattered light and/or thermal emission, (ii) polarisation maps, (iii) interferometric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Christophe Pinte , Francois Menard , Gaspard Duchene , Pierre Bastien

Scattering of light from an anisotropic source produces linear polarization in spectral lines and the continuum. In the outer layers of a stellar atmosphere the anisotropy of the radiation field is typically dominated by the radiation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Rafael Manso Sainz , Javier Trujillo Bueno

We investigate ways of accurately simulating the propagation of energetic charged particles over small times where the standard Monte Carlo approximation to diffusive transport breaks down. We find that a small-angle scattering procedure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. J. Protheroe , A. Meli , A. -C Donea

We propose a Monte Carlo sampler from the reverse diffusion process. Unlike the practice of diffusion models, where the intermediary updates -- the score functions -- are learned with a neural network, we transform the score matching…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-14 Xunpeng Huang , Hanze Dong , Yifan Hao , Yi-An Ma , Tong Zhang

Relying on Feynman-Kac path-integral methodology, we present a new statistical perspective on wave single-scattering by complex three-dimensional objects. The approach is implemented on three models -- Schiff approximation, Born…

An open source software package for simulating thermal neutron propagation in geometry is presented. In this system, neutron propagation can be treated by either the particle transport method or the ray-tracing method. Supported by an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Zi-Yi Pan , Ni Yang , Ming Tang , Peixun Shen , Xiao-Xiao Cai

We present Monte Carlo simulations of dusty spiral galaxies, modelled as bulge + disk systems, aimed to study their extinction and polarization properties. The extinction parameters (absorption and scattering) of dust grains are calculated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Simone Bianchi , Andrea Ferrara , Carlo Giovanardi

We present an efficient Monte Carlo method to simulate reaction-diffusion processes with spatially varying particle annihilation or transformation rates as it occurs for instance in the context of motor-driven intracellular transport. Like…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-20 Karsten Schwarz , Heiko Rieger

A Monte Carlo simulation has been performed to track light rays in cylindrical fibres by ray optics. The trapping efficiencies for skew and meridional rays in active fibres and distributions of characteristic quantities for all trapped…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. P. Achenbach , J. H. Cobb

We present a Monte Carlo radiative transfer technique for calculating synthetic spectropolarimetry for multi-dimensional supernova explosion models. The approach utilises "virtual-packets" that are generated during the propagation of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-23 M. Bulla , S. A. Sim , M. Kromer

The propagation of light across 2D and 3D slabs of reflective colloidal particles in a fluid-like state has been investigated by simulation. The colloids are represented as hard spheres with and without an attractive square-well tail.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-18 Raffaela Cabriolu , Sarah Dungan , Pietro Ballone

In this contribution, I discuss some basic techniques that can be used to simulate radiative transfer through porous media. As specific examples, I consider scattering transfer through a clumped slab, and X-ray emission line formation in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-07 Rich Townsend

Radiative transfer in curved spacetimes has become increasingly important to understanding high-energy astrophysical phenomena and testing general relativity in the strong field limit. The equations of radiative transfer are physically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Avery E. Broderick

Biasing or importance sampling is a powerful technique in Monte Carlo radiative transfer, and can be applied in different forms to increase the accuracy and efficiency of simulations. One of the drawbacks of the use of biasing is the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-11 Maarten Baes , Karl D. Gordon , Tuomas Lunttila , Simone Bianchi , Peter Camps , Mika Juvela , Rolf Kuiper

We present a fit of the virtual-photon scattering asymmetry of polarized Deep Inelastic Scattering which combines a Monte Carlo technique with the use of a redundant parametrization based on Neural Networks. We apply the result to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-07-01 L. Del Debbio , A. Guffanti , A. Piccione

We proposed in a previous paper [Opt. Commun. 228, 33 (2003)] a modified radiative transfer equation to describe radiative transfer in a medium with a spatially varying refractive index. The present paper is devoted to the demonstration…

Optics · Physics 2008-05-23 Jean-Michel Tualle

The intense magnetic fields of neutron stars naturally lead to strong anisotropy and polarization of radiation emanating from their surfaces, both being sensitive to the hot spot position on the surface. Accordingly, pulse phase-resolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-21 Matthew G. Baring , Hoa Dinh Thi , George A. Younes , Kun Hu

Electron transport within nanostructures can be important to varied engineering applications, such as thermoelectrics and nanoelectronics. In theoretical studies, electron Monte Carlo simulations are widely used as an alternative approach…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Qing Hao , Yue Xiao