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Asteroid (6478) Gault was discovered to exhibit a comet-like tail in observations from December 2018, becoming a new member of the so-called active asteroid population in the main asteroid belt. The aims are to investigate the grain…

Cometary meteoroid trails exist in the vicinity of comets, forming fine structure of the interplanetary dust cloud. The trails consist predominantly of cometary particles with sizes of approximately 0.1 mm to 1 cm which are ejected at low…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Harald Krüger , Peter Strub , Max Sommer , Nicolas Altobelli , Hiroshi Kimura , Ann-Kathrin Lohse , Eberhard Grün , Ralf Srama

We study the behavior of dust temperature and its infrared emission of FirstLight1 simulated galaxies at the redshift of 6 and 8, by using POLARIS2 as a Monte Carlo photon transport simulator. To calculate the dust temperature ($T_{dust}$)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-29 Muzammil Mushtaq , Prajwal Hassan Puttasiddappa

mcdust is a parallel simulation code for dust evolution in protoplanetary disks. The code is written in FORTRAN90 and parallelised with OpenMP. The code models dust collisional evolution and transport in the vertical and radial directions.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 Vignesh Vaikundaraman , Nerea Gurrutxaga , Joanna Drążkowska

The study of secondary particles produced by the cosmic-ray interaction in the Earth's atmosphere is very crucial as these particles mainly constitute the background counts produced in the high-energy detectors at balloon and satellite…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-17 Ritabrata Sarkar , Abhijit Roy , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

The CoPhyLab (Cometary Physics Laboratory) project is designed to study the physics of comets through a series of earth-based experiments. For these experiments, a dust analogue was created with physical properties comparable to those of…

Optical and near-IR (NIR) line profiles of many ageing core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) exhibit an apparently asymmetric bluewards shift often attributed to greater extinction by internal dust of redshifted radiation emitted from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Antonia Bevan

We conducted experiments with machine learning techniques to construct dust temperature maps from the CO isotopologue molecular line data in the Orion A molecular cloud. In the classical astrophysical methodology, multi-band continuum data…

We present SKIRT (Stellar Kinematics Including Radiative Transfer), a new Monte Carlo radiative transfer code that allows the calculation of the observed stellar kinematics of a dusty galaxy. The code incorporates the effects of both…

We present an updated version of SKIRT, a 3D Monte Carlo radiative transfer code developed to simulate dusty galaxies. The main novel characteristics of the SKIRT code are the use of a stellar foam to generate random positions, an efficient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Maarten Baes , Joris Verstappen , Ilse De Looze , Jacopo Fritz , Waad Saftly , Edgardo Vidal Pérez , Marko Stalevski , Sander Valcke

Cometary dust particles are remnants of the primordial accretion of refractory material that occurred during the initial stages of the Solar System formation. Understanding their physical structure can help constrain their accretion…

Context: There is increasing need for good algorithms for modeling the aggregation and fragmentation of solid particles (dust grains, dust aggregates, boulders) in various astrophysical settings, including protoplanetary disks, planetary-…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Zsom , C. P. Dullemond

A code computing consistently the evolution of stars, gas and dust, as well as the energy they radiate, is required to derive reliably the history of galaxies by fitting synthetic SEDs to multiwavelength observations. The new code…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-27 Michel Fioc , Brigitte Rocca-Volmerange

Recently, two exoplanet candidates have been discovered, KIC 12557548b and KOI-2700b, whose transit profiles show evidence for a comet-like tail of dust trailing the planet, thought to be fed by the evaporation of the planet's surface. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-03 R. van Lieshout , M. Min , C. Dominik

We describe the public release of the Cluster Monte Carlo Code (CMC) a parallel, star-by-star $N$-body code for modeling dense star clusters. CMC treats collisional stellar dynamics using H\'enon's method, where the cumulative effect of…

The structure of cometary dust is a tracer of growth processes in the formation of planetesimals. Instrumentation on board the Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov- Gerasimenko captured dust particles and analysed them in situ. However,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 L. E. Ellerbroek , B. Gundlach , A. Landeck , C. Dominik , J. Blum , S. Merouane , M. Hilchenbach , H. John , H. A. van Veen

State-of-the-art cosmological hydrodynamical simulations have star particles with typical mass between $\sim 10^8$ and $\sim 10^3$ M$_{\odot}$ according to resolution, and treat them as simple stellar populations. On the other hand,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-31 Milena Valentini , Alessandro Bressan , Stefano Borgani , Giuseppe Murante , Léo Girardi , Luca Tornatore

Recent observations have revealed puzzling spatial disparities between ALMA dust continuum and UV emission as seen by HST and JWST in galaxies at $z=5-7$ (e.g. ALPINE and REBELS surveys), compelling us to propose a physical interpretation…

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

In this paper and a companion paper we present the DIRTY model, a Monte Carlo radiative transfer code, self-consistently including dust heating and emission, and accounting for the effects of the transient heating of small grains. The code…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. A. Misselt , K. D. Gordon , G. C. Clayton , M. J. Wolff