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Radiative processes such as synchrotron radiation and Compton scattering play an important role in astrophysics. Radiative processes are fundamentally stochastic in nature, and the best tools currently used for resolving these processes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-28 William Charles , Alexander Y. Chen

Context: The Monte Carlo method is probably the most widely used approach to solve the radiative transfer problem, especially in a general 3D geometry. The physical processes of emission, absorption, and scattering are easily incorporated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-19 Maarten Baes , Peter Camps , Kosei Matsumoto

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

We present Arepo-MCRT, a novel Monte Carlo radiative transfer (MCRT) radiation-hydrodynamics (RHD) solver for the unstructured moving-mesh code Arepo. Our method is designed for general multiple scattering problems in both optically thin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 Aaron Smith , Rahul Kannan , Benny T. -H. Tsang , Mark Vogelsberger , Ruediger Pakmor

To reproduce the observed spectra and light curves originated in the neighborhood of compact objects requires accurate relativistic ray-tracing codes. In this work, we present Skylight, a new numerical code for general-relativistic ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-07 Joaquín Pelle , Oscar Reula , Federico Carrasco , Carlos Bederian

We study the evolution of ionization fronts around the first proto-galaxies by using high resolution numerical cosmological (Lambda+CDM model) simulations and Monte Carlo radiative transfer methods. We present the numerical scheme in detail…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Ciardi , A. Ferrara , S. Marri , G. Raimondo

We present results of simulations to assess the feasibility of modeling outflows from massive stars using the Los Alamos 3-D radiation hydrodynamics code Cassio developed for inertial confinement fusion (ICF) applications. We find that a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-05 Joyce A. Guzik , Chris Fryer , Todd J. Urbatsch , Stanley P. Owocki

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 or on both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. -M. Dumont , A. Abrassart , S. Collin

A Monte Carlo program which simulates the response of SiPMs is presented. Input to the program are the mean number and the time distribution of Geiger discharges from light, as well as the dark-count rate. For every primary Geiger discharge…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-22 E. Garutti , R. Klanner , J. Rolph , J. Schwandt

We present a new version of the fully 3D photoionization and dust radiative transfer code, MOCASSIN, that uses a Monte Carlo approach for the transfer of radiation. The X-ray enabled MOCASSIN allows a fully geometry independent description…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Barbara Ercolano , Peter R. Young , Jeremy J. Drake , John C. Raymond

We present the DIRTY radiative transfer model in this paper and a companion paper. This model computes the polarized radiative transfer of photons from arbitrary distributions of stars through arbitrary distributions of dust using Monte…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Karl D. Gordon , K. A. Misselt , Adolf N. Witt , Geoffrey C. Clayton

Ionising feedback from massive stars dramatically affects the interstellar medium local to star forming regions. Numerical simulations are now starting to include enough complexity to produce morphologies and gas properties that are not too…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 D. A. Hubber , B. Ercolano , J. Dale

We have modelled the circumstellar envelope of {\it o} Ceti (Mira) using new observational constraints. These are obtained from photospheric light scattered in near-IR vibrational-rotational lines of circumstellar CO molecules at 4.6…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Ryde , F. L. Schoeier

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

A three dimensional parallel Monte Carlo (MC) dust radiative transfer code is presented. To overcome the huge computing time requirements of MC treatments, the computational power of vectorized hardware is used, utilizing either multi-core…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Frank Heymann , Ralf Siebenmorgen

The study of photoionized environments is fundamental to many astrophysical problems. Up to the present most photoionization codes have numerically solved the equations of radiative transfer by making the extreme simplifying assumption of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Ercolano , M. J. Barlow , P. J. Storey , X. -W. Liu

We developed a three-dimensional radiative transfer code for an ultra-relativistic background flow-field by using the Monte Carlo (MC) method in the context of gamma-ray burst (GRB) emission. For obtaining reliable simulation results in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-13 Ayako Ishii , Naofumi Ohnishi , Hiroki Nagakura , Hirotaka Ito , Shoichi Yamada

We present an open-source code for the simulation of electron and ion transport for user-defined gas mixtures with static uniform electric and magnetic fields. The program provides microscopic interaction simulation and is interfaced with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 Michele Renda , Dan Andrei Ciubotaru , Calin Iulian Banu

We show the best current simulations of the absorption and emission features predicted from thermal-radiative winds produced from X-ray illumination of the outer accretion disc in binary systems. We use the density and velocity structure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 Ryota Tomaru , Chris Done , Ken Ohsuga , Hirokazu Odaka , Tadayuki Takahashi

Light transfer in gradient-index media generally follows curved ray trajectories, which will cause light beam to converge or diverge during transfer and induce the rotation of polarization ellipse even when the medium is transparent.…

Optics · Physics 2014-12-16 J. M. Zhao , J. Y. Tan , L. H. Liu