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Radiation transport plays a crucial role in star formation models, as certain questions within this field cannot be accurately addressed without taking it into account. Given the high complexity of the interstellar medium from which stars…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-11 Richard Wünsch

We propose a system to optimize parametric designs subject to radiation pressure, \ie the effect of light on the motion of objects. This is most relevant in the design of spacecraft, where radiation pressure presents the dominant…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Charles Constant , Elizabeth Bates , Santosh Bhattarai , Marek Ziebart , Tobias Ritschel

Thermal radiative transfer models physical phenomena ranging from supernovas in astrophysics to radiation from a hohlraum striking a fusion target in plasma physics. Transport and absorption of particles in radiative transfer at different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Chinmay Patwardhan , Jonas Kusch

Radiative transfer in curved spacetimes has become increasingly important to understanding high-energy astrophysical phenomena and testing general relativity in the strong field limit. The equations of radiative transfer are physically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Avery E. Broderick

We present a comprehensive analytical study of radiative transfer using the method of moments and include the effects of non-isotropic scattering in the coherent limit. Within this unified formalism, we derive the governing equations and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Kevin Heng , João M. Mendonça , Jae-Min Lee

Observations and magnetohydrodynamic simulations of solar and stellar atmospheres reveal an intermittent behavior or steep gradients in physical parameters, such as magnetic field, temperature, and bulk velocities. The numerical solution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-22 Gioele Janett

We describe a photon-conserving radiative transfer algorithm, using a spatially-adaptive ray tracing scheme, and its parallel implementation into the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) cosmological hydrodynamics code, Enzo. By coupling the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 John H. Wise , Tom Abel

Energy loss through optically thin radiative cooling plays an important part in the evolution of astrophysical gas dynamics and should therefore be considered a necessary element in any numerical simulation. Although the addition of this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-12 Allard Jan van Marle , Rony Keppens

We derive new equations using the mixed-frame approach for one- and two-dimensional (axisymmetric) time-dependent radiation transport and the associated couplings with matter. Our formulation is multi-group and multi-angle and includes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Ivan Hubeny , Adam Burrows

We present a ray-tracing technique for radiative transfer modeling of complex three-dimensional (3D) structures which include dense regions of high optical depth like in dense molecular clouds, circumstellar disks, envelopes of evolved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Steinacker , A. Bacmann , Th. Henning

Modern observations and models of various astrophysical objects suggest that many of their physical parameters fluctuate substantially at different spatial scales. The rich variety of the emission processes, including Transition Radiation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-02 Gregory D. Fleishman , Dale E. Gary , Gelu M. Nita

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 a novel generalization of the two-stream method of radiative transfer, which allows for the accurate treatment of radiative transfer in the presence of strong infrared scattering by aerosols. We prove that this generalization…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Kevin Heng , Daniel Kitzmann

We present a framework for inferring an atmospheric transmission profile from a spectral scene. This framework leverages a lightweight, physics-based simulator that is automatically tuned - by virtue of autodifferentiation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 James Koch , Brenda Forland , Bruce Bernacki , Timothy Doster , Tegan Emerson

A solution of the radiative-transfer problem in arbitrary velocity fields introduced in a previous paper, has limitations in its applicability. For large-scale applications, the methods described also require large memory sets that are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-24 S. Knop , P. H. Hauschildt , E. Baron

We describe a novel adaptive ray tracing scheme to solve the equation of radiative transfer around point sources in hydrodynamical simulations. The angular resolution adapts to the local hydrodynamical resolution and hence is of use for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tom Abel , Benjamin D. Wandelt

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

Radiative transfer describes the propagation of electromagnetic radiation through an interacting medium. This process is often simulated by the use of the Monte Carlo method, which involves the probabilistic determination and tracking of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-31 A. Krieger , S. Wolf

Heat radiation and near-field radiative heat transfer can be strongly manipulated by adjusting geometrical shapes, optical properties, or the relative positions of the objects involved. Typically these objects are considered as embedded in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 Boris Müller , Roberta Incardone , Mauro Antezza , Thorsten Emig , Matthias Krüger

Observations and theoretical calculations have shown the importance of non-spherically symmetric structures in supernovae. Thus, the interpretation of observed supernova spectra requires the ability to solve the transfer equation in 3-D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Baron , Peter H. Hauschildt , Bin Chen