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The numerical study of relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) plays a crucial role in high-energy astrophysics, but unfortunately is computationally demanding, given the complex physics involved (high Lorentz factor flows, extreme…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-09 Luca Del Zanna , Simone Landi , Lorenzo Serafini , Matteo Bugli , Emanuele Papini

A numerical code for solving various Lyman alpha (Lya) radiative transfer (RT) problems is presented. The code is suitable for an arbitrary, three-dimensional distribution of Lya emissivity, gas temperature, density, and velocity field.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-24 Peter Laursen , Alexei O. Razoumov , Jesper Sommer-Larsen , ;

We present the first non-LTE, co-moving frame molecular line calculations of a star-forming cluster simulated using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), from which we derive high-resolution synthetic observations. We have resampled a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 David Rundle , Tim J. Harries , David M. Acreman , Matthew R. Bate

Computationally expensive Radiative Transfer Models (RTMs) are widely used} to realistically reproduce the light interaction with the Earth surface and atmosphere. Because these models take long processing time, the common practice is to…

The Lyman-alpha (LyA) line of atomic hydrogen encodes crucial information about both the intrinsic sources and surrounding environments of star-forming regions throughout the Universe. Due to the complexity of resonant scattering, analytic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-22 Aaron Smith , Kevin Lorinc , Olof Nebrin , Bing-Xin Lao

Context: The past decade has witnessed a large number of Galactic plane surveys at angular resolutions below 20". However, no comparable high-resolution survey exists at long radio wavelengths around 21cm in line and continuum emission.…

Incoherent dedispersion is a computationally intensive problem that appears frequently in pulsar and transient astronomy. For current and future transient pipelines, dedispersion can dominate the total execution time, meaning its…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Benjamin R. Barsdell , Matthew Bailes , David G. Barnes , Christopher J. Fluke

Current Earth observation foundation models are architecturally rigid, struggle with heterogeneous sensors and are constrained to fixed patch sizes. This limits their deployment in real-world scenarios requiring flexible computeaccuracy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Theodor Forgaard , Jarle H. Reksten , Anders U. Waldeland , Valerio Marsocci , Nicolas Longépé , Michael Kampffmeyer , Arnt-Børre Salberg

This and companion papers by Harrington et al. and Blecic et al. present the Bayesian Atmospheric Radiative Transfer (BART) code, an open-source, open-development package to characterize extrasolar-planet atmospheres. BART combines a…

A new parallel computing framework has been developed to use with general-purpose radiation transport codes. The framework was implemented as a C++ module that uses MPI for message passing. The module is significantly independent of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-02-13 M. A. Kostin , N. V. Mokhov , K. Niita

We present a review of the TORUS radiation transfer and hydrodynamics code. TORUS uses a 1-D, 2-D or3-D adaptive mesh refinement scheme to store and manipulate the state variables, and solves the equation of radiative transfer using Monte…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-18 Tim Harries , Tom Haworth , David Acreman , Ahmad Ali , Tom Douglas

Numerical investigation of compressible flows faces two main challenges. In order to accurately describe the flow characteristics, high-resolution nonlinear numerical schemes are needed to capture discontinuities and resolve wide…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-09 Nils Hoppe , Stefan Adami , Nikolaus A. Adams

Code is presented that computes and exploits orbital tori for any axisymmetric gravitational potential. The code is a development of the AGAMA software package for action-based galaxy modelling and can be downloaded as the AGAMAb code…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-09 James Binney , Thomas J Wright , Eugene Vasiliev

Accreting supermassive black holes are sources of polarized radiation that propagates through highly curved spacetime before reaching the observer. In order to help interpret observations of such polarized emission, accurate and efficient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-20 Thomas Bronzwaer , Ziri Younsi , Jordy Davelaar , Heino Falcke

The Lagrangian Particles (LP) module of the PLUTO code offers a powerful simulation tool to predict the non-thermal emission produced by shock accelerated particles in large-scale relativistic magnetized astrophysics flows. The LPs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-02 Alessio Suriano , Stefano Truzzi , Agnese Costa , Marco Rossazza , Nitin Shukla , Andrea Mignone , Vittoria Berta , Claudio Zanni

We present GAMER-2, a GPU-accelerated adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) code for astrophysics. It provides a rich set of features, including adaptive time-stepping, several hydrodynamic schemes, magnetohydrodynamics, self-gravity, particles,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-05 Hsi-Yu Schive , John A. ZuHone , Nathan J. Goldbaum , Matthew J. Turk , Massimo Gaspari , Chin-Yu Cheng

Numerical methods for radiative transfer play a key role in modern-day astrophysics and cosmology, including study of the inhomogeneous reionization process. In this context, ray tracing methods are well-regarded for accuracy but notorious…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Nathan X. Marshak , Kathlynn Simotas , Zarija Lukić , Hyunbae Park , James Ahrens , Chris R. Johnson

Solving the shallow water equations efficiently is critical to the study of natural hazards induced by tsunami and storm surge, since it provides more response time in an early warning system and allows more runs to be done for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Xinsheng Qin , Randall LeVeque , Michael Motley

This paper presents a computationally efficient implementation of a Hamming code decoder on a graphics processing unit (GPU) to support real-time software-defined radio (SDR), which is a software alternative for realizing wireless…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-23 Shohidul Islam , Cheol-Hong Kim , Jong-Myon Kim

Existing ubiquitously in the Universe with the highest luminosity, the Lyman-$\alpha$ emission line encodes abundant physical information about the gaseous medium it interacts with. Nevertheless, the resonant nature of Ly$\alpha$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-11 Zhihui Li , Max Gronke