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Lyman-Alpha (Ly$\alpha$) is the strongest emission line in the Universe and is frequently used to detect and study the most distant galaxies. Because Lya is a resonant line, photons typically scatter prior to escaping; this scattering…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-28 Max Gronke , Mark Dijkstra , Michael McCourt , S. Peng Oh

We have made a Monte Carlo simulation of the intergalactic absorption in order to model the Lyman continuum absorption, which is required to estimate the escape fraction of the Lyman continuum from distant galaxies. To input into the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Akio K. Inoue , Ikuru Iwata

A Monte Carlo model of radiative transfer in multi-phase dusty media is applied to the situation of stars and clumpy dust in a sphere or a disk. The distribution of escaping and absorbed photons are shown for various filling factors and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Varosi , Eli Dwek

Aims: We aim to study the effects of an inhomogeneous interstellar medium (ISM) on the strength and the shape of the Lyman alpha (Lya) line in starburst galaxies. Methods: Using our 3D Monte Carlo Lya radiation transfer code, we study the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Florent Duval , Daniel Schaerer , Göran Östlin , Peter Laursen

We investigate the escape of Ly$\beta$ from emission nebulae with a significant population of excited hydrogen atoms in the level $n=2$, rendering them optically thick in H$\alpha$. The transfer of Ly$\beta$ line photons in these optically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-21 Seok-Jun Chang , Hee-Won Lee , Sang-Hyeon Ahn , Hogyu Lee , Rodolfo Angeloni , Tali Palma , Francesco Di Mille

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

We develop a method of analyzing radio frequency spectral line observations to derive data on the temperature, density, velocity, and molecular abundance of the emitting gas. The method incorporates a radiative transfer code with a new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eric Keto , George B. Rybicki , Edwin A. Bergin , Rene Plume

We perform Lyman-alpha radiative transfer calculations for reproducing Lyman-alpha properties of star-forming galaxies at high redshifts. We model a galaxy as a halo in which the density distributions of Lyman-alpha sources and H I plus…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 Hyunmi Song , Kwang-Il Seon , Ho Seong Hwang

Outflows promote the escape of Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) photons from dusty interstellar media. The process of radiative transfer through interstellar outflows is often modelled by a spherically symmetric, geometrically thin shell of gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-16 Max Gronke , Philip Bull , Mark Dijkstra

A new code for evaluation of light absorption and scattering by interstellar dust grains is presented. The radiative transfer problem is solved using ray-tracing algorithm in a self-consistent and highly efficient way. The code demonstrates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Semionov , V. Vansevicius

We present constrained radiative transfer calculations of Lyman Alpha (Lya) photons propagating through clumpy, dusty, large scale outflows, and explore whether we can quantitatively explain the Lya halos that have been observed around…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Mark Dijkstra , Roban Hultman Kramer

We study the role resonant scattering plays in the transport of Lyman-alpha photons in accreting protoplanetary disk systems subject to varying degrees of dust settling. While the intrinsic stellar FUV spectrum of accreting T Tauri systems…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Thomas Bethell , Edwin Bergin

Various types of galaxies observed in the cosmological scales show P-Cygni type profiles in the Lyman alpha emission lines. A Monte Carlo code is developed to investigate the Lyman alpha line transfer in an optically thick and moving medium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Sang-Hyeon Ahn , Hee-Won Lee

We combine a cosmological reionization simulation with box size of 100Mpc/h on a side and a Monte Carlo Lyman-alpha (Lya) radiative transfer code to model Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs) at z~5.7. The model introduces Lya radiative transfer as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Zheng Zheng , Renyue Cen , Hy Trac , Jordi Miralda-Escude

Hydrogen emission lines can provide extensive information about star-forming galaxies in both the local and high-redshift Universe. We present a detailed Lyman continuum (LyC), Lyman-alpha (Ly{\alpha}), and Balmer line (H{\alpha} and…

We develop a Ly-alpha radiative transfer (RT) Monte Carlo code for cosmological simulations.High resolution,along with appropriately treated cooling can result in simulated environments with very high optical depths.Thus,solving the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Argyro Tasitsiomi

We investigate the radiative transfer of Lyman alpha photons through simplified anisotropic gas distributions, which represent physically motivated extensions of the popular 'shell-models'. Our study is motivated by the notion that (i)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Christoph Behrens , Mark Dijkstra , Jens Niemeyer

We present an extensive study of the radiative transfer in dusty galaxies based on Monte Carlo simulations. The main output of these simulations are the attenuation curves ${\cal A}_\lambda$ (i.e. the ratio between the observed, dust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Ferrara , S. Bianchi , A. Cimatti , C. Giovanardi

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

We propose to infer ionising continuum leaking properties of galaxies by looking at their Lyman-alpha line profiles. We carry out Lyman-alpha radiation transfer calculations in two models of HII regions which are porous to ionising…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Verhamme , I. Orlitova , D. Schaerer , M. Hayes