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The improvement in observational facilities requires refining the modelling of the geometrical structures of astrophysical objects. Nevertheless, for complex problems such as line overlap in molecules showing hyperfine structure, a detailed…

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Radiative transfer (RT) modelling is a necessary tool in the interpretation of observations of the thermal emission of interstellar dust. It is also often part of multi-physics modelling. In this context, the efficiency of radiative…

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We present a percent-level accurate model of the line-of-sight velocity distribution of galaxies around dark matter halos as a function of projected radius and halo mass. The model is developed and tested using synthetic galaxy catalogs…

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Computational analysis of multiplexed immunofluorescence histology data is emerging as an important method for understanding the tumour micro-environment in cancer. This work presents HEMIT, a dataset designed for translating Hematoxylin…

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Future astrophysics missions will seek extraterrestrial life via transmission and direct imaging observations. To assess habitability and biosignatures, we need robust retrieval tools to analyze observed spectra, and infer surface and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-03 Samantha Gilbert-Janizek , Victoria S. Meadows , Jacob Lustig-Yaeger

We simulate atmospheric fractionation in escaping planetary atmospheres using IsoFATE, a new open-source numerical model. We expand the parameter space studied previously to planets with tenuous atmospheres that exhibit the greatest helium…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-30 Collin Cherubim , Robin Wordsworth , Renyu Hu , Evgenya Shkolnik

We present a numerical implementation of radiative transfer based on an explicitly photon-conserving advection scheme, where radiative fluxes over the cell interfaces of a structured or unstructured mesh are calculated with a second-order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Margarita Petkova , Volker Springel

We present a general method to calculate radiative transfer including scattering in the continuum as well as in lines in spherically symmetric systems that are influenced by the effects of general relativity (GR). We utilize a comoving…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Knop , P. H. Hauschildt , E. Baron

The broadband line-by-line analysis of radiative transfer in the atmosphere is extremely demanding with regard to computational resources. As a remedy, we present here the calculation of uniform error bounds for approximating the classical…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Sven Nordebo

Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) imaging reconstructs the shape and depth of hidden objects from picosecond-resolved transient signals, offering potential applications in autonomous driving, security, and medical diagnostics. However, current NLOS…

We develop a self-consistent and accurate halo model by partitioning matter according to the depletion radii of haloes. Unlike conventional models that define haloes with the virial radius while relying on a separate exclusion radius or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-20 Yifeng Zhou , Jiaxin Han

We describe a code designed for hot media {(T $\ge$} a few 10$^4$ K), optically thick to Compton scattering. It computes the structure of a plane-parallel slab of gas in thermal and ionization equilibrium, illuminated on one side or on both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Anne-Marie Dumont , Suzy Collin

In the present work, the full spectrum $k$-distribution method (FSK) has been adopted to calculate the radiative heat transfer in the presence of participating gaseous medium within an enclosure. The spectral radiative properties of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Kamal Khemani , Shreesh Parvatikar , Pradeep Kumar

We use the graphics processing unit (GPU) for fast calculations of helicity amplitudes of physics processes. As our first attempt, we compute $u\bar{u}\to n\gamma$ ($n=2$ to 8) processes in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 14$TeV by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 K. Hagiwara , J. Kanzaki , N. Okamura , D. Rainwater , T. Stelzer

We have developed a new model that uses a cellular approach to calculate radiative transfer of starlight through dusty media. The model is designed to be user friendly enough to be distributed as a tool for use by the general astronomical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Matthew Trewhella , Barry F. Madore , Leslie Kuchinski

With a new generation of observatories coming online this decade, the process of characterizing exoplanet atmospheres will need to be reinvented. Currently mostly on the instrumental side, characterization bottlenecks will soon stand by the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-16 Prajwal Niraula , Julien de Wit , Iouli E. Gordon , Robert J. Hargreaves , Clara Sousa-Silva , Roman V. Kochanov

We present Exo-Transmit, a software package to calculate exoplanet transmission spectra for planets of varied composition. The code is designed to generate spectra of planets with a wide range of atmospheric composition, temperature,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Eliza M. -R. Kempton , Roxana E. Lupu , Albert Owusu-Asare , Patrick Slough , Bryson Cale

Spectroscopy across spatially resolved stellar surfaces reveals spectral line profiles free from rotational broadening, whose gradual changes from disk center toward the stellar limb reflect an atmospheric fine structure that is possible to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Dainis Dravins , Martin Gustavsson , Hans-Günter Ludwig

We present describe a new computer code that solves the radiative transfer problem on multi-resolution grids. If the cloud model is from an MHD simulation on a regular cartesian grid, criteria based for example on local density or velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Juvela , P. Padoan

To gain insight into four highly ionized high-velocity clouds (HVCs) discovered by Sembach et al. (1999), we have analyzed data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) for the PKS 2155-304 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Collins , J. M. Shull , M. L. Giroux