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Seismology of stars is strongly developing. To address this question we have formed an international collaboration OPAC to perform specific experimental measurements, compare opacity calculations and improve the opacity calculations in the…

We present a numerical code to simulate maps of Galactic emission in intensity and polarization at microwave frequencies, aiding in the design of Cosmic Microwave Background experiments. This Python code builds on existing efforts to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Ben Thorne , Jo Dunkley , David Alonso , Sigurd Naess

Resonant lines are powerful probes of the interstellar and circumgalactic medium of galaxies. Their transfer in gas being a complex process, the interpretation of their observational signatures, either in absorption or in emission, is often…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-01 Leo Michel-Dansac , Jeremy Blaizot , Thibault Garel , Anne Verhamme , Taysun Kimm , Maxime Trebitsch

Context. Realistic 3D time-dependent simulations of stellar near-surface convection employ the opacity binning method for efficient and accurate computation of the radiative energy exchange. The method provides several orders of magnitude…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 A. Perdomo García , N. Vitas , E. Khomenko , M. Collados , C. Allende Prieto , I. Hubeny , Y. Osorio

In a molecular cloud dust opacity typically dominates over gas opacity, yet in the vicinities of forming stars dust is depleted, and gas is the sole provider of opacity. In the optically thin circumstellar environments the radiation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 M. G. Malygin , R. Kuiper , H. Klahr , C. P. Dullemond , Th. Henning

The model for the Planck-mean dust opacity $\kappa_{P}$ given in Appendix C of the STARFORGE simulations methods paper does not extrapolate well to low radiation temperature $T_{\rm rad}$, so we provide an updated calculation suitable for…

We discuss the general design of the ANTARES code which is intended for simulations in stellar hydrodynamics with radiative transfer and realistic microphysics in 1D, 2D and 3D. We then compare the quality of various numerical methods. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-23 H. J. Muthsam , F. Kupka , B. Loew-Baselli , Chr. Obertscheider , M. Langer , P. Lenz

Tables store rich numerical data, but numerical reasoning over tables is still a challenge. In this paper, we find that the spreadsheet formula, which performs calculations on numerical values in tables, is naturally a strong supervision of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Zhoujun Cheng , Haoyu Dong , Ran Jia , Pengfei Wu , Shi Han , Fan Cheng , Dongmei Zhang

Calculating opacities for a wide range of plasma conditions (i.e. temperature, density, element) requires detailed knowledge of the plasma configuration space and electronic structure. For plasmas composed of heavier elements, relativistic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Nathanael Gill , Christopher Fontes , Charles Starrett

GALA is a freely distributed Fortran code to derive automatically the atmospheric parameters (temperature, gravity, microturbulent velocity and overall metallicity) and abundances for individual species of stellar spectra using the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. Mucciarelli , E. Pancino , L. Lovisi , F. R. Ferraro , E. Lapenna

For high temperatures and densities, stellar opacities obtained from the Opacity Project (OP) were smaller than those obtained from the OPAL project. Iglesias and Rogers [Ap.J. v443, 469 (1995)] suggested that the discrepancy was due to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. R. Badnell , M. J. Seaton

A review of a renewed effort to recalculate astrophysical opacities using the R-Matrix method is presented. The computational methods and new extensions are described. Resulting enhancements found in test calculations under stellar interior…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-09 Anil K. Pradhan , Sultana N. Nahar

Pariser-Parr-Pople (P-P-P) model Hamiltonian has been used extensively over the years to perform calculations of electronic structure and optical properties of $\pi$-conjugated systems successfully. In spite of tremendous successes of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-02-06 Priya Sony , Alok Shukla

The THERMOS toolkit has been developed to calculate radiative properties of plasmas. This article contains a brief survey of some of its key features used by calculation of opacities and emissivities and by analysis of specific experiments.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 I. Yu. Vichev , A. D. Solomyannaya , A. S. Grushin , D. A. Kim

In developing a deeper understanding of the Circumgalactic Medium, one feature that is poorly understood is the nature of the ultraviolet background (UVB) and its impact on observed column densities. A wide array of UVB models have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-30 Elias Taira , Claire Kopenhafer , Brian W. O'Shea

We developed a portable code for dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulations. This Fortran program named CAMUS has a couple of notable features. One is the omission of constructing the so-called neighboring particles list, providing a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-03 Hideo Doi , Koji Okuwaki , Takamitsu Naito , Sona Saitou , Yuji Mochizuki

We introduce the Python program THALAS (TensorFlow Hydrodynamics Analysis for Lyman-Alpha Simulations), which maps baryon fields (baryon density, temperature, and velocity) to Ly$\alpha$ optical depth fields in both real space and redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-24 Jupiter Ding , Benjamin Horowitz , Zarija Lukić

We present a set of 1194 Type-1 Rosseland-mean opacity tables for four different metallicity mixtures. These new Los Alamos OPLIB atomic radiative opacity tables are an order of magnitude larger in number than any previous opacity table…

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

We present FORECAST, a new flexible and adaptable software package that performs forward modeling of the output of any cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to create a wide range of realistic synthetic astronomical images. With…