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Radial density profiles for the sample of dense cores associated with high-mass star-forming regions from southern hemisphere have been derived using the data of observations in continuum at 250 GHz. Radial density profiles for the inner…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Lev E. Pirogov

Context: The Monte Carlo method is probably the most widely used approach to solve the radiative transfer problem, especially in a general 3D geometry. The physical processes of emission, absorption, and scattering are easily incorporated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-19 Maarten Baes , Peter Camps , Kosei Matsumoto

Comparison is made between a number of independent computer programs for radiative transfer in molecular rotational lines. The test models are spherically symmetric circumstellar envelopes with a given density and temperature profile. The…

We present the results of a series of calculations studying the collapse of molecular cloud cores performed using a three-dimensional smoothed particle hydr odynamics code with radiative transfer in the flux-limited diffusion approximation.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stuart C. Whitehouse , Matthew R. Bate

Cosmic rays are an important source of heating in the interstellar medium, in particular in dense molecular cloud cores shielded from the external ultraviolet radiation field. The limits placed on the cosmic-ray ionization rate from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-12 Daniele Galli , Marco Padovani

Direct imaging has paved the way for atmospheric characterization of young and self-luminous gas giants. Scattering in a horizontally-inhomogeneous atmosphere causes the disk-integrated polarization of the thermal radiation to be linearly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-09 Tomas Stolker , Michiel Min , Daphne M. Stam , Paul Mollière , Carsten Dominik , Rens Waters

Monte Carlo simulations are performed to study the in-plane transport of spin-polarized electrons in III-V semiconductor quantum wells. The density matrix description of the spin polarization is incorporated in the simulation algorithm. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-22 Min Shen , Semion Saikin , Ming-C. Cheng , Vladimir Privman

We present the results of self-consistent models of Compton-heated accretion disk coronae. The models are calculated using a new method for computing monochromatic radiative transfer in two-dimensions. The method splits the radiation into…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Stephen D. Murray , John I. Castor , Richard I. Klein , Christopher F. McKee

Multi-wavelength observations in the sub-mm regime provide information on the distribution of both the dust column density and the effective dust temperature in molecular clouds. In this study, we created high-resolution and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-28 Birgit Hasenberger , Marco Lombardi , João Alves , Jan Forbrich , Alvaro Hacar , Charles J. Lada

Context. The interpretation of polarised radiation emerging from a planetary atmosphere must rely on solutions to the vector Radiative Transport Equation (vRTE). Monte Carlo integration of the vRTE is a valuable approach for its flexible…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 García Muñoz , A. , Mills , F. P

A three dimensional parallel Monte Carlo (MC) dust radiative transfer code is presented. To overcome the huge computing time requirements of MC treatments, the computational power of vectorized hardware is used, utilizing either multi-core…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Frank Heymann , Ralf Siebenmorgen

This paper is part of a series investigating the observational appearance of planets accreting from their nascent protoplanetary disk (PPD). We evaluate the differences between gas temperature distributions determined in our radiation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-06 Anton Krieger , Hubert Klahr , Julio David Melon Fuksman , Sebastian Wolf

We have computed the dust temperature distribution to be expected in a pre-protostellar core in the phase prior to the onset of gravitational instability. We have done this in the approximation that the heating of the dust grains is solely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Zucconi , C. M. Walmsley , D. Galli

Monte Carlo simulation code has been developed and tested for studying the passage of charged particle beams and radiation through the crystalline matter at energies from tens of MeV up to hundreds of GeV. The developed Monte Carlo code…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Armen Apyan

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

Recent observations of protostars with the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unprecedented chemical complexity from their ice absorption features. However, these spectra are likely influenced by radiative transfer effects, and there…

Low-mass stars like our Sun begin their evolution within cold (10 K) and dense ($\sim 10^5$ cm$^{-3}$) cores of gas and dust. The physical structure of starless cores is best probed by thermal emission of dust grains. We present a high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 Samantha Scibelli , Yancy Shirley , Anika Schmiedeke , Brian Svoboda , Ayushi Singh , James Lilly , Paola Caselli

We describe an efficient Monte Carlo algorithm for a restricted class of scattering problems in radiation transfer. This class includes many astrophysically interesting problems, including the scattering of ultraviolet and visible light by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alan M. Watson , William J. Henney

We present the study of the effects of high energy cosmic rays (CRs) over the astrophysical ices, observed toward the embedded class I protostar Elias 29, by using computational modeling and laboratory data. Its spectrum was observed with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-01 W. R. M. Rocha , S. Pilling

In this article, a complete radiative transfer approach for estimating incident photon flux density by actinometry is presented that opens the door to investigation of large-scale intensified photoreactors. The approach is based on an…