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Emission features formed through Raman scattering with atomic hydrogen provide unique and crucial information to probe the distribution and kinematics of a thick neutral region illuminated by a strong far UV emission source. We introduce a…

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Aims: We present POLARIS (POLArized RadIation Simulator), a newly developed three-dimensional Monte-Carlo radiative transfer code. POLARIS was designed to calculate dust temperature, polarization maps, and spectral energy distributions. It…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 Stefan Reissl , Sebastian Wolf , Robert Brauer

Aims. We present an implementation of an algorithm for 3D time-dependent Monte Carlo radiative transfer. It allows one to simulate temperature distributions as well as images and spectral energy distributions of the scattered light and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 A. Bensberg , S. Wolf

We present a new 3D continuum radiative transfer code, MCFOST, based on a Monte-Carlo method. The reliability and efficiency of the code is tested by comparison with five different radiative transfer codes previously tested by Pascucci et…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Christophe Pinte , Francois Menard , Gaspard Duchene

We present three-dimensional, self-consistent radiative transfer solutions with a new Monte Carlo radiative equilibrium code. The code, RADISHE ($\bf{RAD}$iative transfer $\bf{I}$n $\bf{S}$moothed particle $\bf{H}$ydrodynamics and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Sukanya Chakrabarti , Barbara Whitney

We present a largely improved version of CRASH, a 3-D radiative transfer code that treats the effects of ionizing radiation propagating through a given inhomogeneous H/He cosmological density field, on the physical conditions of the gas.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Maselli , A. Ferrara , B. Ciardi

We describe a code designed for hot media {(T $\ge$} a few 10$^4$ K), optically thick to Compton scattering. It computes the structure of a plane-parallel slab of gas in thermal and ionization equilibrium, illuminated on one side or on both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Anne-Marie Dumont , Suzy Collin

Polarized radiation serves as a vital diagnostic tool in astrophysics, providing unique insights into magnetic field geometries, scattering processes, and three-dimensional structures in diverse astrophysical scenarios. To address these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Haifeng Yang , Lile Wang

We present POSSIS, a time-dependent three-dimensional Monte Carlo code for modelling radiation transport in supernovae and kilonovae. The code incorporates wavelength- and time-dependent opacities and predicts viewing-angle dependent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-13 Mattia Bulla

We present a new Monte Carlo code for Comptonisation in Astrophysics (MoCA). To our knowledge MoCA is the first code that uses a single photon approach in a full special relativity scenario, and including also Klein-Nishina effects as well…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-21 Francesco Tamborra , Giorgio Matt , Stefano Bianchi , Michal Dovčiak

Recently, with the advances in computational speed and availability there has been a growth in the number and resolution of fully 3-D hydrodynamical simulations. However, all of these simulations are purely hydrodynamical and there has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Baron , Peter H. Hauschildt

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 new code designed to solve the equations of classical ideal magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) in three dimensions, submitted to a constant gravitational field. The purpose of the code centers on the analysis of solar phenomena within…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-22 J. J. Gonzalez-Aviles , A. Cruz-Osorio , F. D. Lora-Clavijo , F. S. Guzman

Identification of local structure in intensive data -- such as time series, images, and higher dimensional processes -- is an important problem in astronomy. Since the data are typically generated by an inhomogeneous Poisson process, an…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeffrey D. Scargle

We have constructed a photoionization model, using the 3-D Monte Carlo code MOCASSIN for one of the hydrogen-deficient knots (J3) of the born-again planetary nebula Abell 30. The model consists of spherical knots, comprising a cold, dense,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Ercolano , M. J. Barlow , P. J. Storey , X. -W. Liu , T. Rauch , K. Werner

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 describe a pseudo-3D photoionization code, NEBU_3D and its associated visualization tool, VIS_NEB3D, which are able to easily and rapidly treat a wide variety of nebular geometries, by combining models obtained with a 1D photoionization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Morisset , G. Stasinska , M. Pena

We propose a novel numerical method for solving multi-dimensional, special relativistic Boltzmann equations for neutrinos coupled to hydrodynamics equations. It is meant to be applied to simulations of core-collapse supernovae. We handle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Hiroki Nagakura , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Shoichi Yamada

We investigate, whether the alleged failure of standard photoionization codes of the Diffuse Ionized Gas (DIG) is simply caused by geometrical effects and the insufficient treatment of the radiative transfer. Standard photoionization models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Tuellmann , M. R. Rosa , R. -J. Dettmar

We study the evolution of ionization fronts around the first proto-galaxies by using high resolution numerical cosmological (Lambda+CDM model) simulations and Monte Carlo radiative transfer methods. We present the numerical scheme in detail…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Ciardi , A. Ferrara , S. Marri , G. Raimondo