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New high-resolution spectropolarimetric observations of solar prominences require improved radiative modelling capabilities in order to take into account both multi-dimensional - at least 2D - geometry and complex atomic models. This makes…

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The interpretation of the intensity and polarization of the spectral line radiation produced in the atmosphere of the Sun and of other stars requires solving a radiative transfer problem that can be very complex, especially when the main…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jiri Stepan , Javier Trujillo Bueno

We discuss a new one-dimensional non-LTE time-dependent radiative-transfer technique for the simulation of supernova (SN) spectra and light curves. Starting from a hydrodynamical input characterizing the homologously-expanding ejecta at a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Luc Dessart , D. John Hillier

Improved calculations of X-ray spectra for supernova remnants (SNRs) in the Sedov-Taylor phase are reported, which for the first time include reliable atomic data for Fe L-shell lines. This new set of Sedov models also allows for a partial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. J. Borkowski , W. J. Lyerly , S. P. Reynolds

The theory of radiative transfer provides the link between the physical conditions in an astrophysical object and the observable radiation which it emits. Thus accurately modelling radiative transfer is often a necessary part of testing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. A. Sim , M. Kromer , F. K. Roepke , E. I. Sorokina , S. I. Blinnikov , D. Kasen , W. Hillebrandt

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)-based models have achieved remarkable success in 3D reconstruction and rendering tasks. However, during both training and inference, these models rely heavily on dense point sampling along rays from multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Ranxi Lin , Canming Yao , Jiayi Li , Weihang Liu , Xin Lou , Pingqiang Zhou

We present a suite of codes (NLAT for nonlocal adiabatic transfer) to calculate the transfer cross section for single-nucleon transfer reactions, $(d,N)$ or $(N,d)$, including nonlocal nucleon-target interactions, within the adiabatic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 L. J. Titus , A. Ross , F. M. Nunes

When calculating the infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies in radiation-transfer models, the calculation of dust grain temperatures is generally the most time-consuming part of the calculation. Because of its highly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Patrik Jonsson , Joel Primack

We describe the implementation of a module for the Athena magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code which solves the time-independent, multi-frequency radiative transfer (RT) equation on multidimensional Cartesian simulation domains, including…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Shane W. Davis , James M. Stone , Yan-Fei Jiang

We present a framework for analysing panchromatic and spatially resolved galaxy observations, dubbed SE3D. SE3D simultaneously and self-consistently models a galaxy's spectral energy distribution and its spectral distributions of global…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-19 Steven Ramnichal , Junkai Zhang , Stijn Wuyts , Cheng Li

Supernova (SN) explosions, through the metals they release, play a pivotal role in the chemical evolution of the Universe and the origin of life. Nebular phase spectroscopy constrains such metal yields, for example through forbidden line…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Luc Dessart , D. John Hillier

Accurate 3D dose calculation for Pencil Beam Scanning Proton Therapy (PBSPT) is typically performed with Monte Carlo (MC) engines, but their runtimes limit adaptive workflows and repeated evaluations. Current deep-learning proton dose…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Mikołaj Stryja , Danny Lathouwers , Zoltán Perkó

Non-LTE radiative transfer is a key tool for modern astrophysics: it is the means by which many key synthetic observables are produced, thus connecting simulations and observations. Radiative transfer models also inform our understanding of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Christopher M. J. Osborne , Alexander Sannikov

Purpose: Accurate dose calculation is essential in radiotherapy for precise tumor irradiation while sparing healthy tissue. With the growing adoption of MRI-guided and real-time adaptive radiotherapy, fast and accurate dose calculation on…

Radiative transfer is a key component in almost all astrophysical and cosmological simulations. We present Magritte: a modern open-source software library for 3D radiative transfer. It uses a deterministic ray-tracer and formal solver, i.e.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Frederik De Ceuster , Ward Homan , Jeremy Yates , Leen Decin , Peter Boyle , James Hetherington

The computational resources required to solve the full 3D inversion of time-domain electromagnetic data are immense. To overcome the time-consuming 3D simulations, we construct a surrogate model, more precisely, a data-driven statistical…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-07-10 Wouter Deleersnyder , David Dudal , Thomas Hermans

We present a new numerical scheme to solve the transfer of diffuse radiation on three-dimensional mesh grids which is efficient on processors with highly parallel architecture such as recently popular GPUs and CPUs with multi- and many-core…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Satoshi Tanaka , Kohji Yoshikawa , Takashi Okamoto , Kenji Hasegawa

Tensor permutation is a fundamental operation widely applied in AI, tensor networks, and related fields. However, it is extremely complex, and different shapes and permutation maps can make a huge difference. SIMD permutation began to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Yaojian Chen , Tianyu Ma , An Yang , Lin Gan , Wenlai Zhao , Guangwen Yang

The Discrete Periodic Radon Transform (DPRT) has been extensively used in applications that involve image reconstructions from projections. This manuscript introduces a fast and scalable approach for computing the forward and inverse DPRT…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Cesar Carranza , Daniel Llamocca , Marios Pattichis

A spectral-energy distribution (SED) model for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is a critical tool for measuring precise and accurate distances across a large redshift range and constraining cosmological parameters. We present an improved model…