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Comptonization is the process in which photon spectrum changes due to multiple Compton scatterings in the electronic plasma. It plays an important role in the spectral formation of astrophysical X-ray and gamma-ray sources. There are…

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A Monte Carlo code based on Geant 3.21 has been used for simulations of energy losses and angular scattering in a time-of-flight Suprathermal Ion Telescope (SIT) on the Solar-Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO). A hemispherical…

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We introduce a new, publicly available Monte Carlo radiative transfer code, STOKES, which has been developed to model polarization induced by scattering off free electrons and dust grains. It can be used in a wide range of astrophysical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rene W. Goosmann , C. Martin Gaskell , M. Shoji

We discuss the space-and-time-dependent Monte Carlo code we have developed to simulate the relativistic radiation output from compact astrophysical objects, coupled to a Fokker-Planck code to determine the self-consistent lepton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Boettcher , E. P. Liang

We present the public Monte Carlo photoionization and moving-mesh radiation hydrodynamics code CMacIonize, which can be used to simulate the self-consistent evolution of HII regions surrounding young O and B stars, or other sources of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Bert Vandenbroucke , Kenneth Wood

We use a multi-dimensional Monte Carlo code to compute X-ray spectra for a variety of active galactic nucleus (AGN) disk-wind outflow geometries. We focus on the formation of blue-shifted absorption features in the Fe K band and show that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Sim , K. S. Long , L. Miller , T. J. Turner

Linear kinetic Monte Carlo particle transport models are frequently employed in fusion plasma simulations to quantify atomic and surface effects on the main plasma flow dynamics. Separate codes are used for transport of neutral particles…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. Seebacher , A. Kendl

We explore the application of Monte Carlo transport methods to solving coupled radiation-hydrodynamics problems. We use a time-dependent, frequency-dependent, 3-dimensional radiation transport code, that is special relativistic and includes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Nathaniel Roth , Daniel Kasen

With the recently emerging global interest in building a next generation of circular electron-positron colliders to study the properties of the Higgs boson, and other important topics in particle physics at ultra-high beam energies, it is…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-05-25 Zhe Duan , Mei Bai , Desmond P. Barber , Qing Qin

We use a 3D Monte Carlo radiative transfer code to study the polarimetric and photometric variability from stationary corotating interaction regions (CIR) in the wind of massive stars. Our CIRs are approximated by Archimedean spirals of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Danny Carlos-Leblanc , Nicole St-Louis , Jon Bjorkman , Richard Ignace

The ionising feedback of young massive stars is well known to influence the dynamics of the birth environment and hence plays an important role in regulating the star formation process in molecular clouds. For this reason, modern…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-30 Maya A. Petkova , Bert Vandenbroucke , Ian A. Bonnell , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen

In this paper, we introduce \texttt{SuperLite}, an open-source Monte Carlo radiation transport code designed to produce synthetic spectra for astrophysical transient phenomena affected by circumstellar interaction. \texttt{SuperLite}…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-11 Gururaj A. Wagle , Emmanouil Chatzopoulos , Ryan Wollaeger , Christopher J. Fontes

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…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-03 Peter Camps , Maarten Baes

Interactions between clouds and radiation are at the root of many difficulties in numerically predicting future weather and climate and in retrieving the state of the atmosphere from remote sensing observations. The large range of issues…

The radio detection method for cosmic rays relies on coherent emission from electrons and positrons which is beamed in a narrow cone along the shower axis. Currently the only mod- els to reproduce this emission with sufficient accuracy are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 David Butler , Tim Huege , Olaf Scholten

We present a new algorithm for radiative transfer-based on a statistical Monte Carlo approach-that does not suffer from teleportation effects, on the one hand, and yields smooth results, on the other hand. Implicit Monte Carlo (IMC)…

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Radiation is crucial not only for observing astrophysical objects, but also for transporting energy and momentum. However, accurate on-the-fly radiation transport in astrophysical simulations is challenging and computationally expensive.…

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We present a set of new numerical methods that are relevant to calculating radiation pressure terms in hydrodynamics calculations, with a particular focus on massive star formation. The radiation force is determined from a Monte Carlo…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Tim J. Harries

This paper describes Sunrise, a parallel, free Monte-Carlo code for the calculation of radiation transfer through astronomical dust. Sunrise uses an adaptive-mesh refinement grid to describe arbitrary geometries of emitting and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-05 Patrik Jonsson

We present time-domain Monte Carlo simulations of radio emission from cosmic ray air showers in the scheme of coherent geosynchrotron radiation. Our model takes into account the important air shower characteristics such as the lateral and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tim Huege , Heino Falcke