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Radiative transfer plays a major role in high-energy astrophysics. In multiple scenarios and in a broad range of energy scales, the coupling between matter and radiation is essential to understand the interplay between theory, observations…

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Higher resolution telescopes as well as 3D numerical simulations will require the development of detailed 3D radiative transfer calculations. Building upon our previous work we extend our method to include both continuum and line transfer.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Baron , Peter H. Hauschildt

We address the classical stellar-atmosphere problem and describe our method of numerical solution in detail. The problem consists of the solution of the radiation transfer equation under the constraints of hydrostatic, radiative and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Werner , J. L. Deetjen , S. Dreizler , T. Nagel , T. Rauch , S. L. Schuh

Thermal radiative transfer (TRT) is an essential piece of physics in inertial confinement fusion, high-energy density physics, astrophysics etc. The physical models of this type of problem are defined by strongly coupled differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Dmitriy Y. Anistratov , Terry S. Haut

Resonance lines encode rich information about astrophysical sources and their environments, yet fully analytic treatments of multi-line radiative transfer remain almost entirely unexplored. We present exact, closed-form solutions for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-18 Ethan Stace , Aaron Smith , Kevin Lorinc , Olof Nebrin

Context: Thermal conductivity provides important contributions to the energy evolution of the upper solar atmosphere, behaving as a non-linear concentration-dependent diffusion equation. Recently, different methods have been offered as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-11 George Cherry , Boris Gudiksen , Mikolaj Szydlarski

The efficient numerical solution of Non-LTE multilevel transfer problems requires the combination of highly convergent iterative schemes with fast and accurate formal solution methods of the radiative transfer (RT) equation. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-30 P. Fabiani Bendicho , J. Trujillo Bueno

We present a new radiative transfer method (SPH-M1RT) that is coupled dynamically with smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). We implement it in the (task-based parallel) SWIFT galaxy simulation code but it can be straightforwardly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-06 T. K. Chan , Tom Theuns , Richard Bower , Carlos Frenk

We present an algorithm for two-dimensional radiative transfer in axisymmetric, circumstellar media. The formal integration of the transfer equation is performed by a generalization of the short characteristics (SC) method to spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. P. Dullemond , R. Turolla

Radiative transfer plays a key role in the star formation process. Due to a high computational cost, radiation-hydrodynamics simulations performed up to now have mainly been carried out in the grey approximation. In recent years,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Matthias González , Neil Vaytet , Benoît Commerçon , Jacques Masson

We propose and develop the complex scaled multiconfigurational spin-tensor electron propagator (CMCSTEP) technique for theoretical determination of resonance parameters with electron-atom/molecule systems including open-shell and highly…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Tsogbayar Tsednee , Liyuan Liang , Danny L. Yeager

Multi-level non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) radiation transfer calculations have become standard throughout the stellar atmospheres community and are applied to all types of stars as well as dynamical systems such as novae and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-02 Peter H. Hauschildt , E. Baron

We present a novel ray acceleration structure for radiative transfer outside of local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE), leveraging techniques from computer graphics to improve computational efficiency. By applying mipmapping (local…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Christopher M. J. Osborne

We describe a code designed for hot media {(T $\ge$} a few 10$^4$ K), optically thick to Compton scattering. It computes the structure of a plane-parallel slab of gas in thermal and ionization equilibrium, illuminated on one side or on both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Anne-Marie Dumont , Suzy Collin

The radiation transfer equation is widely used for simulating such as heat transfer in engineering, diffuse optical tomography in healthcare, and radiation hydrodynamics in astrophysics. By combining the lattice Boltzmann method, we propose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Asuka Igarashi , Tadashi Kadowaki , Shiro Kawabata

We describe a general radiative equilibrium and temperature correction procedure for use in Monte Carlo radiation transfer codes with sources of temperature-independent opacity, such as astrophysical dust. The technique utilizes the fact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-08 J. E. Bjorkman , Kenneth Wood

Current observational data of exoplanets are providing increasing detail of their 3D atmospheric structures. As characterisation efforts expand in scope, the need to develop consistent 3D radiative-transfer methods becomes more pertinent as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-04 Elspeth K. H. Lee , Jake Taylor , Simon L. Grimm , Jean-Loup Baudino , Ryan Garland , Patrick G. J. Irwin , Kenneth Wood

We introduce Monte Carlo-based non-LTE line radiative transfer calculations in the 3D dust radiative transfer code SKIRT, which was originally set up as a dust radiative transfer code. By doing so, we develop a generic and powerful 3D…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-25 Kosei Matsumoto , Peter Camps , Maarten Baes , Frederik De Ceuster , Keiichi Wada , Takao Nakagawa , Kentaro Nagamine

This paper describes the first steps of development of a new multidimensional time implicit code devoted to the study of hydrodynamical processes in stellar interiors. The code solves the hydrodynamical equations in spherical geometry and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Viallet , I. Baraffe , R. Walder

We introduce a new code for computing time-dependent continuum radiative transfer and non-equilibrium ionization states in static density fields with periodic boundaries. Our code solves the moments of the radiative transfer equation,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Finlator , F. Ozel , R. Dave