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The topic of the present study is combining a dynamic model of a protoplanetary disk with the computations of radiation transfer for obtaining synthetic spectra and disk images suitable for immediate comparison of the model with…

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We explore the gas dynamics near the dust sublimation radius of active galactic nucleus (AGN). For the purpose, we perform axisymmetric radiation hydrodynamic simulations of a dusty gas disk of radius $\approx 1\,\mathrm{pc}$ around a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 Daisuke Namekata , Masayuki Umemura

The detailed distribution of dust in the disks of spiral galaxies is important to understanding the radiative transfer within disks, and to measuring overall dust masses if significant quantities of dust are either very opaque or very cold.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Donovan L. Domingue , William C. Keel , Stuart D. Ryder , Raymond E. White

Mass loss is a crucial component in stellar evolution models, since it largely determines the rate of evolution at the later stages of a star's life. The dust-driven outflows from AGB stars are particularly important in this regard.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-16 Lars Mattsson , Paolo Ventura

Recently 3D hydrodynamical simulations of stellar surface convection have become feasible thanks to advances in computer technology and efficient numerical algorithms. Available observational diagnostics indicate that these models are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Asplund , Remo Collet

[abridged] Radiation pressure on dust grains may be an important mechanism in driving winds in a wide variety of astrophysical systems. However, the efficiency of the coupling between the radiation field and the dusty gas is poorly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Mark R. Krumholz , Todd A. Thompson

We present an extensive study of the radiative transfer in dusty galaxies based on Monte Carlo simulations. The main output of these simulations are the attenuation curves ${\cal A}_\lambda$ (i.e. the ratio between the observed, dust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Ferrara , S. Bianchi , A. Cimatti , C. Giovanardi

We present a new model to compute the effects of dust on the integrated spectral properties of galaxies, based on an idealized prescription of the main features of the interstellar medium (ISM). The model includes the ionization of HII…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Charlot , S. Michael Fall

Tori of Active Galactic Nuclei are made up of a mixture of hot and cold gas, as well as dust. In order to protect the dust grains from destruction by the hot gas as well as by the energetic radiation of the accretion disk, the dust is often…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Schartmann , K. Meisenheimer , M. Camenzind , S. Wolf , K. R. W. Tristram , Th. Henning

One of the few ways that we can understand the environment around dusty stars and how much material they contribute back to the Universe, is by fitting their brightness at different wavelengths with models that account for how the energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-08 Steven R. Goldman

Dust attenuation varies substantially from galaxy to galaxy and as of yet cannot be reproduced from first principles in theoretical models. In Nagaraj et al. (2022), we developed the first Bayesian population model of dust attenuation as a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-09 Gautam Nagaraj , John C. Forbes , Joel Leja , Dan Foreman-Mackey , Christopher C. Hayward

(abridged) We present STARDUST, a new self-consistent modelling of the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies from far-UV to radio wavelengths. In order to derive the SEDs in this broad spectral range, we first couple…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 J. E. G. Devriendt , B. Guiderdoni , R. Sadat

We introduce a dust model for cosmological simulations implemented in the moving-mesh code AREPO and present a suite of cosmological hydrodynamical zoom-in simulations to study dust formation within galactic haloes. Our model accounts for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-02 Ryan McKinnon , Paul Torrey , Mark Vogelsberger

We compare the properties of stellar populations of model galaxies from the Cosmic Reionization On Computers (CROC) project with the exiting UV and IR data. Since CROC simulations do not follow cosmic dust directly, we adopt two variants of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-01 Zimu Khakhaleva-Li , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

We present simulated galaxy spectral energy distributions (SEDs) from the far ultraviolet through the far infrared, created using hydrodynamic simulations and radiative transfer calculations, suitable for the validation of SED modeling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-18 Nicholas Faucher , Michael R. Blanton , Andrea V. Macciò

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 present a new dust extension to the Monte Carlo radiative transfer code crash, which enables it to simulate the propagation of ionizing radiation through mixtures of gas and dust. The new code is applied to study the impact of dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-09 Martin Glatzle , Benedetta Ciardi , Luca Graziani

The assumption of spherical symmetry is not justified for the vast majority of PNe. The interpretation of spatially-resolved observations cannot rely solely on the application of 1D codes, which may yield incorrect abundances determinations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Ercolano , M. J. Barlow , P. J. Storey

Analysis of galaxies with overlapping images offers a direct way to probe the distribution of dust extinction and its effects on the background light. We present a catalog of 1990 such galaxy pairs selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 William C. Keel , Anna Manning , Benne W. Holwerda , Massimo Mezzoprete , Chris J. Lintott , Kevin Schawinski , Pamela Gay , Karen L. Masters

We study the importance of several processes that influence the evolution of dust and its grain size distribution on spatially resolved scales in nearby galaxies. Here, we compiled several multi-wavelength observations for the nearby…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-31 S. A. van der Giessen , K. Matsumoto , M. Relano , I. De Looze , L. Romano , H. Hirashita , K. Nagamine , M. Baes , M. Palla , K. C. Hou , C. Faesi