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HYPERION is a new three-dimensional dust continuum Monte-Carlo radiative transfer code that is designed to be as generic as possible, allowing radiative transfer to be computed through a variety of three-dimensional grids. The main part of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-07 Thomas P. Robitaille

Context: Radiative feedback plays a crucial role in the formation of massive stars. The implementation of a fast and accurate description of the proceeding thermodynamics in pre-stellar cores and evolving accretion disks is therefore a main…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Rolf Kuiper , Hubert Klahr , Cornelis Dullemond , Wilhelm Kley , Thomas Henning

We present Starduster, a supervised deep learning model that predicts the multi-wavelength SED from galaxy geometry parameters and star formation history by emulating dust radiative transfer simulations. The model is comprised of three…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-18 Yisheng Qiu , Xi Kang

We present the first radiative transfer (RT) model of a non-edge-on disk galaxy in which the large-scale geometry of stars and dust is self-consistently derived through fitting of multiwavelength imaging observations from the UV to the…

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

Entrainment of dust particles in the flow inside and outside of the proto-planetary disk has implications for the disk evolution and composition of planets. Using quasi-stationary solutions in our star-disk simulations as a background, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-02 Robert Jaros , Miljenko Čemeljić , Włodek Kluźniak , Dejan Vinković , Cezary Turski

We present a novel framework to self-consistently model the effects of radiation fields, dust physics and molecular chemistry (H$_2$) in the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies. The model combines a state-of-the-art radiation…

Dust grains and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) actively contribute to the thermodynamics, chemistry, and radiative state of the interstellar medium (ISM), yet most ISM models and galaxy simulations either exclude them altogether or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-26 Francisco Rodríguez Montero , Yohan Dubois , Harley Katz , Adrianne Slyz , Julien Devriendt

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 GalSyn (Galaxy Synthesizer), a modular and flexible Python package for generating synthetic spectrophotometric observations from hydrodynamical galaxy simulations. GalSyn employs a particle-by-particle spectral modeling approach…

Dust grains play a fundamental role in galaxies, influencing both their evolution and observability. As a result, incorporating dust physics into galaxy evolution simulations is essential. This is a challenging task due to the finite…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-16 Massimiliano Parente

Many processes during the evolution of protoplanetary disks and during planet formation are highly sensitive to the sizes of dust particles that are present in the disk: The efficiency of dust accretion in the disk and volatile transport on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Sebastian Markus Stammler , Tilman Birnstiel

We present the first results of a detailed modeling of chemical and photometric evolution of galaxies including the effects of a dusty interstellar medium. A chemical evolution code follows the SF rate, the gas fraction and the metallicity,…

We have developed a new numerical technique for simulating dusty-gas flows. Our unique code incorporates gas hydrodynamics, self-gravity and dust drag to follow the dynamical evolution of a dusty-gas medium. We have incorporated several…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. T. Maddison , R. J. Humble , J. R. Murray

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

We analyse the far-infrared properties of $\sim$ 5,000 star-forming galaxies at $z<4.5$, drawn from the deepest, super-deblended catalogues in the GOODS-N and COSMOS fields. We develop a novel panchromatic SED fitting algorithm,…

Interstellar dust is an important component of the galactic ecosystem, playing a key role in multiple galaxy formation processes. We present a novel numerical framework for the dynamics and size evolution of dust grains implemented in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-23 Ryan McKinnon , Mark Vogelsberger , Paul Torrey , Federico Marinacci , Rahul Kannan

A WWW interface for the simulation of spectral energy distributions of optically thin dust configurations with an embedded radiative source is presented. The density distribution, radiative source, and dust parameters can be selected either…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Wolf , L. A. Hillenbrand

Circumstellar discs, from which planetary systems are formed, consist of gas, dust and solids. Simulations of self-consistent dynamics of gas, dust and solids in circumstellar discs is a challenging problem. In the paper we present fast…

We study the dust evolution in galaxies by implementing a detailed dust prescription in the SAGE semi-analytical model for galaxy formation. The new model, called Dusty SAGE, follows the condensation of dust in the ejecta of type II…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-18 Dian P. Triani , Manodeep Sinha , Darren J. Croton , Camilla Pacifici , Eli Dwek