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Ray-tracing (RT) has become central to site-specific electromagnetic propagation modeling in dynamic complex environments. Yet its computational burden grows sharply as high-fidelity digital twins of these environments scale to millions of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Giacomo Melloni , Enrico M. Vitucci , Vittorio Degli Esposti , Samuel Berweger , Jack Chuang , Camillo Gentile , Nada Golmie

When verifying a sophisticated numerical code, it is a usual practice to compare the results with reliable solutions obtained by other means. This work provides such solutions for the wavelength dependent dust radiative transfer problem. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Ivezic , M. Groenewegen , A. Menshchikov , R. Szczerba

Aims. We present an implementation of an algorithm for 3D time-dependent Monte Carlo radiative transfer. It allows one to simulate temperature distributions as well as images and spectral energy distributions of the scattered light and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 A. Bensberg , S. Wolf

We present a self-consistent three-dimensional Monte-Carlo radiative transfer model of the stellar and dust emission in the Milky-Way, and have computed synthetic observations of the 3.6 to 100 microns emission in the Galactic mid-plane. In…

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

The EAGLE cosmological simulations reproduce the observed galaxy stellar mass function and many galaxy properties. In this work, we study the dust-related properties of present-day EAGLE galaxies through mock observations in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Peter Camps , James W. Trayford , Maarten Baes , Tom Theuns , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

Radiative-transfer (RT) is a key component for investigating atmospheres of planetary bodies. With the 3D nature of exoplanet atmospheres being important in giving rise to their observable properties, accurate and fast 3D methods are…

We present a new three-dimensional map of dust reddening, based on Gaia parallaxes and stellar photometry from Pan-STARRS 1 and 2MASS. This map covers the sky north of a declination of -30 degrees, out to a distance of several kiloparsecs.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Gregory M. Green , Edward F. Schlafly , Catherine Zucker , Joshua S. Speagle , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

We discuss the development of the new radiative transfer code Wind3D. It solves the non-LTE radiative transport problem in moving stellar atmosphere models in three geometric dimensions. The code accepts arbitrary 3D velocity fields in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-26 A. Lobel , R. Blomme

Geometric acoustics is an efficient framework for room acoustics modeling, governed by the canonical time-dependent rendering equation. Acoustic radiance transfer (ART) solves the equation by discretization, modeling time- and…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Sungho Lee , Matteo Scerbo , Seungu Han , Min Jun Choi , Kyogu Lee , Enzo De Sena

Diffusing Alpha-emitters Radiation Therapy (DaRT) is a new method for treating solid tumors using alpha particles. Unlike conventional radiotherapy, where the physical models for dose calculations are known and routinely used, for DaRT a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 Guy Heger , Lior Arazi

We present an implementation of an adaptive ray tracing (ART) module in the Athena hydrodynamics code that accurately and efficiently handles the radiative transfer involving multiple point sources on a three-dimensional Cartesian grid. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Jeong-Gyu Kim , Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker , M. Aaron Skinner

We present Direct Reward Fine-Tuning (DRaFT), a simple and effective method for fine-tuning diffusion models to maximize differentiable reward functions, such as scores from human preference models. We first show that it is possible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Kevin Clark , Paul Vicol , Kevin Swersky , David J Fleet

Radiative transfer is a key bottleneck in computational astrophysics: it is nonlocal, stiff, and tightly coupled to hydrodynamics. We introduce Ray-trax, a GPU-oriented, fully differentiable 3D ray tracer written in JAX that solves the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Lorenzo Branca , Rune Rost , Tobias Buck

To facilitate the study of black hole fueling, star formation, and feedback in galaxies, we outline a method for treating the radial forces on interstellar gas due to absorption of photons by dust grains. The method gives the correct…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 G. S. Novak , J. P. Ostriker , L. Ciotti

Aims: We introduce a new deep-learning approach for the reconstruction of 3D dust density and temperature distributions from multi-wavelength dust emission observations on the scale of individual star-forming cloud cores (<0.2pc). Methods:…

Radiative transfer is a notoriously difficult and computationally demanding problem. Yet, it is an indispensable ingredient in nearly all astrophysical and cosmological simulations. Choosing an appropriate discretization scheme is a crucial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-01 Frederik De Ceuster , Jan Bolte , Ward Homan , Silke Maes , Jolien Malfait , Leen Decin , Jeremy Yates , Peter Boyle , James Hetherington

Context: Radiative transfer modelling of expanding stellar envelopes is an important task in their analysis. To account for inhomogeneities and deviations from spherical symmetry, it is necessary to develop a 3D approach to radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Jakub Fišák , Jiří Kubát , Brankica Kubátová , Markus Kromer , Jiří Krtička

AIMS: I present the Monte Carlo radiative transfer code TRADING (Transfer of RAdiation through Dust In Galaxies). The code computes self-consistently the extinction of radiation in a dusty medium (including absorption and scattering) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simone Bianchi

We introduce a new model for the spectral energy distribution of galaxies, GRASIL-3D, which includes a careful modelling of the dust component of the interstellar medium. GRASIL-3D is an entirely new model based on the formalism of an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 R. Domínguez-Tenreiro , A. Obreja , G. L. Granato , A. Schurer , P. Alpresa , L. Silva , C. B. Brook , A. Serna