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We propose a method of simulation that is based on the averaging of formal solutions of the transfer equation by taking the integral by the Monte Carlo method. This method is used to compute two models, which correspond to the limiting…

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We introduce a particle-number reprojection method in the shell model Monte Carlo that enables the calculation of observables for a series of nuclei using a Monte Carlo sampling for a single nucleus. The method is used to calculate nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Alhassid , S. Liu , H. Nakada

Comptonization is the process in which photon spectrum changes due to multiple Compton scatterings in the electronic plasma. It plays an important role in the spectral formation of astrophysical X-ray and gamma-ray sources. There are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Xin-Min Hua

A multi-dimension, time-dependent Monte Carlo code is used to compute sample gamma-ray spectra to explore whether unambiguous constraints could be obtained from gamma-ray observations of Type Ia supernovae. Both spherical and aspherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Sim , P. A. Mazzali

Calculations of synthetic spectropolarimetry are one means to test multi-dimensional explosion models for Type Ia supernovae. In a recent paper, we demonstrated that the violent merger of a 1.1 and 0.9 M$_{\odot}$ white dwarf binary system…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-15 M. Bulla , S. A. Sim , M. Kromer , I. R. Seitenzahl , M. Fink , F. Ciaraldi-Schoolmann , F. K. Roepke , W. Hillebrandt , R. Pakmor , A. J. Ruiter , S. Taubenberger

This paper presents a novel method for determining the probability that a supernova candidate belongs to a known supernova type (such as Ia, Ibc, IIL, \emph{etc.}), using its photometric information alone. It is validated with Monte Carlo,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Natalia V. Kuznetsova , Brian M. Connolly

There are now hundreds of publicly available supernova spectral time series. Radiative transfer modeling of this data gives insights into the physical properties of these explosions such as the composition, the density structure, or the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 C. Vogl , W. E. Kerzendorf , S. A. Sim , U. M. Noebauer , S. Lietzau , W. Hillebrandt

Conventional diagonalization methods to calculate nuclear energy levels in the framework of the configuration-interaction (CI) shell model approach are prohibited in very large model spaces. The shell model Monte Carlo (SMMC) is a powerful…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-08 Y. Alhassid , M. Bonett-Matiz , C. N. Gilbreth , S. Vartak

We present substantial extensions to the Monte Carlo radiative transfer code TARDIS to perform spectral synthesis for type II supernovae. By incorporating a non-LTE ionization and excitation treatment for hydrogen, a full account of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-09 C. Vogl , S. A. Sim , U. M. Noebauer , W. E. Kerzendorf , W. Hillebrandt

The radio detection technique of cosmic ray air showers has gained renewed interest in the last two decades. While the radio experiments are very cost-effective to deploy, the Monte-Carlo simulations required to analyse the data are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-17 Mitja Desmet , Stijn Buitink , Tim Huege , David Butler , Ralph Engel , Olaf Scholten

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

Ongoing MeV telescopes such as INTEGRAL/SPI and Fermi/GBM, and proposed telescopes including the recently accepted COSI and the e-ASTROGAM and AMEGO missions, provide another window in understanding transients. Their signals contain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-13 Shing-Chi Leung

Computational codes based on the Diffusion Monte Carlo method can be used to determine the quantum state of two-electron systems confined by external potentials of various nature and geometry. In this work, we show how the application of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Gaia Micca Longo , Carla Maria Coppola , Domenico Giordano , Savino Longo

We offer a simple method Monte Carlo for computation of Volterra's and spherical type multiple integrals with weak (integrable) singularities. An elimination of infinity of variance is achieved by incorporating singularities in the density,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-27 E. Ostrovsky , L. Sirota

Solving the continuum radiative transfer equation in high opacity media requires sophisticated numerical tools. In order to test the reliability of such tools, we present a benchmark of radiative transfer codes in a 2D disc configuration.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Pinte , T. J. Harries , M. Min , A. M. Watson , C. P. Dullemond , P. Woitke , F. Menard , M. C. Duran-Rojas

Polarization has been detected at early times for all types of supernova, indicating that such systems result from or quickly develop some form of asymmetry. In addition, the detection of strong line polarization in supernovae is suggestive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 K. T. Hole , D. Kasen , K. H. Nordsieck

The calculation of multivariate normal probabilities is of great importance in many statistical and economic applications. This paper proposes a spherical Monte Carlo method with both theoretical analysis and numerical simulation. First,…

Computation · Statistics 2013-09-16 Huei-Wen Teng , Ming-Hsuan Kang , Cheng-Der Fuh

We present synthetic light curves and spectra from three-dimensional (3D) Monte Carlo radiative transfer simulations based on a 3D core-collapse supernova explosion model of an ultra-stripped $3.5\,\mathrm{M}_{\odot}$ progenitor. Our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-13 Thomas Maunder , Fionntan P. Callan , Stuart A. Sim , Alexander Heger , Bernhard Müller

Many problems in materials science and biology involve particles interacting with strong, short-ranged bonds, that can break and form on experimental timescales. Treating such bonds as constraints can significantly speed up sampling their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Miranda Holmes-Cerfon

Many optimization techniques have been invented to reduce the noise that is inherent in Monte Carlo radiative transfer simulations. As the typical detectors used in Monte Carlo simulations do not take into account all the information…

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