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The open source SKIRT Monte Carlo radiative transfer code has been used for more than 15 years to model the interaction between radiation and dust in various astrophysical systems. In this work, we present version 9 of the code, which has…

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Simulating the dust content of galaxies and their surrounding gas is challenging due to the wide range of physical processes affecting the dust evolution. Here we present cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of a cluster of galaxies,…

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We describe a simple method for simulating the dynamics of small grains in a dusty gas, relevant to micron-sized grains in the interstellar medium and grains of centimetre size and smaller in protoplanetary discs. The method involves…

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Dust grains are important in various astrophysical processes and serve as indicators of interstellar medium structures, density, and mass. Understanding their physical properties and chemical composition is crucial in astrophysics. Dust…

DUSTY solves the problem of radiation transport in a dusty environment. The code can handle both spherical and planar geometries. The user specifies the properties of the radiation source and dusty region, and the code calculates the dust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zeljko Ivezic , Maia Nenkova , Moshe Elitzur

We present an effective system for simulating dust continuum observations by radiative transfer simulations. By using workflow management system RENKEI-WFT, we utilized distributed computing resources and automated a sequence of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-11 Kazutaka Motoyama , Yoshikazu Tanaka , Kento Aida , Eisaku Sakane , Kenichi Miura

In this paper and a companion paper we present the DIRTY model, a Monte Carlo radiative transfer code, self-consistently including dust heating and emission, and accounting for the effects of the transient heating of small grains. The code…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. A. Misselt , K. D. Gordon , G. C. Clayton , M. J. Wolff

Thermal dust emission carries information on physical conditions and dust properties in many astronomical sources. Because observations represent a sum of emission along the line of sight, their interpretation often requires radiative…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-06 M. Juvela

Optical/UV photons and even harder radiation components in galaxies are absorbed and scattered by dust and re-emitted at infrared wavelengths. For a better understanding of the obscured regions of the galaxies detailed models of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ralf Siebenmorgen , Frank Heymann

We present DART-Ray, a new ray-tracing 3D dust radiative transfer (RT) code designed specifically to calculate radiation field energy density (RFED) distributions within dusty galaxy models with arbitrary geometries. In this paper we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 G. Natale , C. C. Popescu , R. J. Tuffs , D. Semionov

We present a numerical code for continuum radiative transfer that is based on the idea of a `library' describing the relation between the intensity of the local radiation field and the resulting dust emission. With this information and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Juvela , P. Padoan

We present SKIRT (Stellar Kinematics Including Radiative Transfer), a new Monte Carlo radiative transfer code that allows the calculation of the observed stellar kinematics of a dusty galaxy. The code incorporates the effects of both…

We present the DIRTY radiative transfer model in this paper and a companion paper. This model computes the polarized radiative transfer of photons from arbitrary distributions of stars through arbitrary distributions of dust using Monte…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Karl D. Gordon , K. A. Misselt , Adolf N. Witt , Geoffrey C. Clayton

We present an extensively updated version of the purely ray-tracing 3D dust radiation transfer code DART-Ray. The new version includes five major upgrades : 1) a series of optimizations for the ray-angular density and the scattered…

A new code for evaluation of light absorption and scattering by interstellar dust grains is presented. The radiative transfer problem is solved using ray-tracing algorithm in a self-consistent and highly efficient way. The code demonstrates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Semionov , V. Vansevicius

A new Monte-Carlo radiative-transfer code, Sunrise, is used in conjunction with hydrodynamic simulations of major galaxy mergers to calculate the effects of dust in such systems. The simulations are in good agreement with observations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Patrik Jonsson , T. J. Cox , Joel R. Primack , Rachel S. Somerville

We present Powderday, a flexible, fast, open-source dust radiative transfer package designed to interface with galaxy formation simulations. Powderday builds on FSPS population synthesis models, Hyperion dust radiative transfer, and employs…

A revised and greatly improved version of the 3D continuum radiative transfer code MC3D is presented. It is based on the Monte-Carlo method and solves the radiative transfer problem self-consistently. It is designed for the simulation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sebastian Wolf

We present an updated version of SKIRT, a 3D Monte Carlo radiative transfer code developed to simulate dusty galaxies. The main novel characteristics of the SKIRT code are the use of a stellar foam to generate random positions, an efficient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Maarten Baes , Joris Verstappen , Ilse De Looze , Jacopo Fritz , Waad Saftly , Edgardo Vidal Pérez , Marko Stalevski , Sander Valcke

A new Monte-Carlo radiative-transfer code, Sunrise, is used to study the effects of dust in N-body/hydrodynamic simulations of interacting galaxies. Dust has a profound effect on the appearance of the simulated galaxies. At peak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-05 Patrik Jonsson , T. J. Cox , Joel R. Primack