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When supernovae enter the nebular phase after a few months, they reveal spectral fingerprints of their deep interiors, glowing by radioactivity produced in the explosion. We are given a unique opportunity to see what an exploded star looks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 A. Jerkstrand

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

We present JEKYLL, a new code for modelling of supernova (SN) spectra and lightcurves based on Monte-Carlo (MC) techniques for the radiative transfer. The code assumes spherical symmetry, homologous expansion and steady state for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 M. Ergon , C. Fransson , A. Jerkstrand , C. Kozma , M. Kromer , K. Spricer

We present TARDIS - an open-source code for rapid spectral modelling of supernovae (SNe). Our goal is to develop a tool that is sufficiently fast to allow exploration of the complex parameter spaces of models for SN ejecta. This can be used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Wolfgang E. Kerzendorf , Stuart A. Sim

The electromagnetic transient following a binary neutron star merger is known as a kilonova (KN). Owing to rapid expansion velocities and small ejecta masses, KNe rapidly transition into the Non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium (NLTE)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-17 Quentin Pognan , Jon Grumer , Anders Jerkstrand , Shinya Wanajo

Context. The study of pre-stellar cores (PSCs) suffers from a lack of undepleted species to trace the gas physical properties in their very dense inner parts. Aims. We want to carry out detailed modelling of N2H+ and N2D+ cuts across the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Laurent Pagani , Aurore Bacmann , Sylvie Cabrit , Charlotte Vastel

We present substantial extensions to the Monte Carlo radiative transfer code TARDIS to perform spectral synthesis for type II supernovae. By incorporating a non-LTE ionization and excitation treatment for hydrogen, a full account of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-09 C. Vogl , S. A. Sim , U. M. Noebauer , W. E. Kerzendorf , W. Hillebrandt

Many promising explosion models for the elusive origin of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) ultimately fail to completely reproduce a number of observed properties of these events. One limiting factor for many of these models is the use of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-19 Samuel J. Boos , Luc Dessart , Ken J. Shen , Dean M. Townsley

Supernovae, with their diversity of compositions, velocities, envelope masses, and interactions are good testing grounds for probing the importance of NLTE in expanding atmospheres. In addition to treating H, He, Li I, O I, Ne I, Na I, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Baron , P. H. Hauschildt , P. Nugent , D. Branch

Realistic atmospheric models that link the properties and the physical conditions of supernova ejecta to observable spectra are required for the quantitative interpretation of observational data of type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. N. Sauer , T. L. Hoffmann , A. W. A. Pauldrach

Fundamental understanding and control of the electronic structure evolution in rare-earth nickelates is a fascinating and meaningful issue, as well as being helpful to understand the mechanism of recently discovered superconductivity. Here…

We present an extended grid of multi-epoch 1D nonlocal thermodynamic equilibrium radiative transfer calculations for nebular-phase Type Ibc supernovae (SNe) from He-star explosions. Compared to Dessart+21, we study the spectral evolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-30 Luc Dessart , D. John Hillier , S. E. Woosley , Hanindyo Kuncarayakti

We present non-LTE time-dependent radiative transfer simulations for ejecta produced by the detonation of an helium shell at the surface of a low-mass carbon/oxygen white dwarf (WD). This mechanism is one possible origin for supernovae…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Luc Dessart , D. John Hillier

Supernovae are among the most powerful and influential explosions in the universe. They are also ideal multi-messenger laboratories to study extreme astrophysics. However, many fundamental properties of supernovae related to their diverse…

Context. Computing spectra from 3D simulations of stellar atmospheres when allowing for departures from local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE) is computationally very intensive. Aims. We develop a machine learning based method to speed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Bruce A. Chappell , Tiago M. D. Pereira

Neutrinos dominate the energetics of core-collapse supernovae, and are believed to play an important role in driving the explosion. The development of a spatially multidimensional neutrino radiative transfer code is a key part of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Y. Cardall

Context. Three-dimensional non-local thermodynamical equilibrium (NLTE) radiative transfer calculations are a fundamental tool for a detailed spectral analysis in stellar atmospheres, but require vast amounts of computer power. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Elias R. Udnæs , Tiago M. D. Pereira

Despite the importance of Type Ia supernovae as standard candles for cosmology and to the chemical evolution of the Universe, we still have no consistent picture of the nature of these events. Much progress has been made in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-13 M. Kromer , S. A. Sim , W. Hillebrandt

Radiation transport codes are often used in astrophysics to construct spectral models. In this work we demonstrate how producing these models for a time series of data can provide unique information about supernovae (SNe). Unlike previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-05 Chris Ashall , Paolo Mazzali

{We aim to demonstrate the effect of atmospheric inhomogeneities on the emergent specific intensity and radiation flux of a spectral line radiation.} {We self-consistently solve the NLTE problem for a two-level atom in a 3D atmosphere using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-08 A. Tichý , J. Kubát