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Resonance spectral lines such as H I Ly {\alpha}, Mg II h&k, and Ca II H&K that form in the solar chromosphere are influenced by the effects of 3D radiative transfer as well as partial redistribution (PRD). So far no one has modeled these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 Andrii V. Sukhorukov , Jorrit Leenaarts

Context. Computing spectra from 3D simulations of stellar atmospheres when allowing for departures from local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE) is computationally very intensive. Aims. We develop a machine learning based method to speed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Bruce A. Chappell , Tiago M. D. Pereira

High-energy particles stream during coronal mass ejections or flares through the plasma of the solar wind. This causes instabilities, which lead to wave growth at specific resonant wave numbers, especially within shock regions. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-01 Sebastian Lange , Felix Spanier , Markus Battarbee , Rami Vainio , Timo Laitinen

We present a new method of incorporating radiative transfer into Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). There have been many recent attempts at radiative transfer in SPH (Stamatellos et al 2005, 2005, Mayer et al 2007, Whitehouse and Bate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Duncan Forgan , Ken Rice , Dimitris Stamatellos , Anthony Whitworth

The solar photospheric oxygen abundance is still widely debated. Adopting the solar chemical composition based on the "low" oxygen abundance, as determined with the use of three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamical model atmospheres, results in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 M. Steffen , D. Prakapavičius , E. Caffau , H. -G. Ludwig , P. Bonifacio , R. Cayrel , A. Kučinskas , W. C. Livingston

Compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is ubiquitous in astrophysical phenomena ranging from the intergalactic to the stellar scales. In studying them, numerical simulations are nearly inescapable, due to the large degree of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-07-27 Dimitar G Vlaykov , Philipp Grete , Wolfram Schmidt , Dominik R G Schleicher

A new model atom of nitrogen was developed using the energy levels of N I from laboratory measurements and also predicted in atomic structure calculations and the most up-to-date atomic data for computing radiative and collisional rates of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 L. I. Mashonkina , T. A. Ryabchikova

Numerical radiation-hydrodynamics (RHD) for non-relativistic flows is a challenging problem because it encompasses processes acting over a very broad range of timescales, and where the relative importance of these processes often varies by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-29 Chong-Chong He , Benjamin D. Wibking , Mark R. Krumholz

We explore the application of Monte Carlo transport methods to solving coupled radiation-hydrodynamics problems. We use a time-dependent, frequency-dependent, 3-dimensional radiation transport code, that is special relativistic and includes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Nathaniel Roth , Daniel Kasen

Radiation is crucial not only for observing astrophysical objects, but also for transporting energy and momentum. However, accurate on-the-fly radiation transport in astrophysical simulations is challenging and computationally expensive.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-24 Jing-Ze Ma , Rüdiger Pakmor , Stephen Justham , Selma E. de Mink

The winds from a non-accreting pulsar and a massive star in a binary system collide forming a bow-shaped shock structure. The Coriolis force induced by orbital motion deflects the shocked flows, strongly affecting their dynamics. We study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 V. Bosch-Ramon , M. V. Barkov , D. Khangulyan , M. Perucho

Context. The pursuit of more realistic spectroscopic modelling and consistent abundances has led us to begin a new series of papers designed to improve current solar and stellar abundances of various atomic species. To achieve this, we have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 A. J. Gallagher , M. Bergemann , R. Collet , B. Plez , J. Leenaarts , M. Carlsson , S. A. Yakovleva , A. K Belyaev

The negative hydrogen ion H$^-$ is, almost without exception, treated in local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) in the modelling of F, G, and K stars, where it is the dominant opacity source in the visual spectral region. This assumption…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-11 Paul S. Barklem , Anish M. Amarsi

Magnetic field in the solar corona is usually extrapolated from photospheric vector magnetogram using a nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) model. NLFFF extrapolation needs a considerable effort to be devoted for its numerical realization.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng

In this paper we discuss recent applications of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method to the simulation of supersonic turbulence in the interstellar medium, as well as giving an update on recent algorithmic developments in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-26 Daniel J. Price , Christoph Federrath

To make relevant predictions about observable emission, hydrodynamical simulation codes must employ schemes that account for radiative losses, but the large dimensionality of accurate radiative transfer schemes is often prohibitive.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 James C. Lombardi , William G. McInally , Joshua A. Faber

We investigate departures from LTE in the line formation of Fe for a number of well-studied late-type stars in different evolutionary stages. A new model of Fe atom was constructed from the most up-to-date theoretical and experimental…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Maria Bergemann , Karin Lind , Remo Collet , Zazralt Magic , Martin Asplund

Axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) can be invoked for describing astrophysical magnetized flows and formulated to model stellar magnetospheres including main sequence stars (e.g. the Sun), compact stellar objects [e.g. magnetic white…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Lile Wang , Yu-Qing Lou

The so-called full non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (FNLTE) radiative transfer problem allows us to take into account not only deviations of the radiation field from the Planckian but also deviations of the densities and velocity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 T. Lagache , M. Sampoorna , F. Paletou

The present paper reviews recent advances in the theory of nonlinear driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in slow and Alfven resonant layers. Simple estimations show that in the vicinity of resonant positions the amplitude of variables…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Istvan Ballai , Michael Ruderman