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Polarimetry is about to become a powerful tool for determining the atmospheric properties of exoplanets. To provide the basis for the interpretation of observational results and for predictive studies to guide future observations,…

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Energetic electrons accelerated at coronal reconnection sites during solar flares precipitate into the lower solar atmosphere, generating nonthermal emissions and regulating energy deposition. However, how their transport and precipitation…

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Context. Solar magnetic pores are, due to their concentrated magnetic fields, suitable guides for magnetoacoustic waves. Recent observations have shown that propagating energy flux in pores is subject to strong damping with height; however,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Julia M. Riedl , Caitlin A. Gilchrist-Millar , Tom Van Doorsselaere , David B. Jess , Samuel D. T. Grant

This paper proposes a radial dependent dispersive finite-difference time-domain method for the modelling of electromagnetic cloaking structures. The permittivity and permeability of the cloak are mapped to the Drude dispersion model and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yan Zhao , Christos Argyropoulos , Yang Hao

We introduce a novel algorithm, $\textit{COD}$ -- Compact Opacity Distribution, for shape reconstruction of a celestial body that has been observed to occult a star, using the photometric time-series observations of the occultation.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-08 Gil Nachmani , Tsevi Mazeh , Nir Sochen

Solar flares are transient yet dramatic events in the atmosphere of the Sun, during which a vast amount of magnetic energy is liberated. This energy is subsequently transported through the solar atmosphere or into the heliosphere, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Graham S. Kerr

The influence of edge roughness in angle resolved scatterometry at periodically structured surfaces is investigated. A good description of the radiation interaction with structured surfaces is crucial for the understanding of optical…

Optics · Physics 2012-09-11 A. Kato , S. Burger , F. Scholze

Context: State of the art quantitative spectroscopy of OB-stars compares synthetic spectra (calculated by means of 1D, spherically symmetric computer codes) with observations. Certain stellar atmospheres, however, show strong deviations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 L. Hennicker , J. Puls , N. D. Kee , J. O. Sundqvist

Turbulent-laminar patterns near transition are simulated in plane Couette flow using an extension of the minimal flow unit methodology. Computational domains are of minimal size in two directions but large in the third. The long direction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dwight Barkley , Laurette S. Tuckerman

We discuss studies of polarization in astrophysical masers with particular emphasis on the case where the Zeeman splitting is small compared to the Doppler profile, resulting in a blend of the transitions between magnetic substates. A…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Taylor L. Tobin , Malcolm D. Gray , Athol J. Kemball

In this work, we propose an easy-to-implement fixed-point algorithm for reconstructing a space-time dependent source in a subdiffusion model from lateral boundary measurements. The numerical scheme combines a Galerkin finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Siyu Cen , Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian , Zhi Zhou

A novel 3-D higher-order finite-difference time-domain framework with complex frequency-shifted perfectly matched layer for the modeling of wave propagation in cold plasma is presented. Second- and fourth-order spatial approximations are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-10-25 Konstantinos P. Prokopidis

We present synthetic dust polarisation maps of 3D magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of molecular clouds before the onset of stellar feedback. The clouds are modelled within the SILCC-Zoom project and are embedded in their galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-31 D. Seifried , S. Walch , S. Reissl , J. C. Ibáñez-Mejía

We leverage the 1 pc spatial resolution of the Leike et al. 2020 3D dust map to characterize the three-dimensional structure of nearby molecular clouds ($d \lesssim 400$ pc). We start by "skeletonizing" the clouds in 3D volume density space…

Scientific codes are an indispensable link between theory and experiment; in (astro-)plasma physics, such numerical tools are one window into the universe's most extreme flows of energy. The discretization of Maxwell's equations - needed to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 J. F. Mahlmann , M. A. Aloy , V. Mewes , P. Cerdá-Durán

We present a novel energy-based numerical analysis of semilinear diffusion-reaction boundary value problems. Based on a suitable variational setting, the proposed computational scheme can be seen as an energy minimisation approach. More…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Mario Amrein , Pascal Heid , Thomas P. Wihler

In this paper we describe a numerical method designed for modelling different kinds of astrophysical flows in three dimensions. Our method is a standard explicit finite difference method employing the local shearing-box technique. To model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. E. Caunt , M. J. Korpi

In our work we focus on the accurate computation of light propagation in finite size photonic crystal structures with the finite element method (FEM). We discuss how we utilize numerical concepts like high-order finite elements, transparent…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jan Pomplun , Lin Zschiedrich , Roland Klose , Frank Schmidt , Sven Burger

We present detailed 3D modeling of a dense, coronal thick target X-ray flare using the GX Simulator tool, photospheric magnetic measurements, and microwave imaging and spectroscopy data. The developed model offers a remarkable agreement…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 Gregory D. Fleishman , Yan Xu , Gelu N. Nita , Dale E. Gary

The colliding flows (CF) model is a well-supported mechanism for generating molecular clouds. However, to-date most CF simulations have focused on the formation of clouds in the normal-shock layer between head-on colliding flows. We…

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