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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…

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We use the optical integral field observations with Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on the Very Large Telescope, together with CLOUDY photoionization models to study ionization structure and physical conditions of two luminous HII…

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The gas that is present in the interstellar medium is usually very far removed from (local) thermodynamic equilibrium, and in some cases may also not be in a steady-state equilibrium with its surroundings. The physics of this material is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-17 P. A. M. van Hoof , G. C. Van de Steene , F. Guzmán , M. Dehghanian , M. Chatzikos , G. J. Ferland

Using a sample of nearly half a million galaxies, intersected by over 8 million lines of sight from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 12, we extend our previous study of the recombination radiation emitted by the gaseous halos of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-11 Huanian Zhang , Dennis Zaritsky , Peter Behroozi

We demonstrate the use of the 3D Monte Carlo radiative transfer code PHAETHON to model infrared-dark clouds (IRDCs) that are externally illuminated by the interstellar radiation field (ISRF). These clouds are believed to be the earliest…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 D. Stamatellos , M. Griffin , J. Kirk , S. Molinari , B. Sibthorpe , D. Ward-Thompson , A. Whitworth , L. Wilcock

Carbon monoxide (CO) is the best tracer of Galactic molecular hydrogen (H2). Its lowest rotational emission lines are in the radio regime and thanks to Galactic rotation emission at different distances is Doppler shifted. For a given gas…

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We examine the impact of helium reionization on the structure of the intergalactic medium (IGM). We model the reionization using a radiative transfer (RT) code coupled to the combined gravity hydrodynamics code Enzo. Neutral hydrogen and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Meiksin , E. R. Tittley

We use a 3D Monte Carlo radiative transfer code to study the polarimetric and photometric variability from stationary corotating interaction regions (CIR) in the wind of massive stars. Our CIRs are approximated by Archimedean spirals of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Danny Carlos-Leblanc , Nicole St-Louis , Jon Bjorkman , Richard Ignace

Monte Carlo techniques based on indivisible energy packets are described for computing light curves and spectra for 3-D supernovae. The radiative transfer is time-dependent and includes all effects of O(v/c). Monte Carlo quantization is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. B. Lucy

Multicomponent relativistic fluids have been studied for decades. However, simulating the dynamics of the particles and fluids in such a mixture has been a challenge due to the fact that such simulations are computationally expensive in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-04 Atul Kedia , Nishanth Sasankan , Grant J. Mathews , Motohiko Kusakabe

We combine a Monte Carlo radiative transfer code with an SPH code, so that -- assuming thermal equilibrium -- we can calculate dust-temperature fields, spectral energy distributions, and isophotal maps, for the individual time-frames…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dimitris Stamatellos , Anthony Whitworth

The cosmic ultraviolet (UV) ionizing background impacts the formation of dwarf galaxies in the low-redshift universe (z=3) by suppressing gas infall into galactic halos with circular velocities up to v(circ)=75 km/s. Using a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mark Dijkstra , Zoltan Haiman , Martin J. Rees , David H. Weinberg

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 2009-11-13 C. Morisset , G. Stasinska , M. Pena

We present COSMOCR, a numerical code for the investigation of cosmic ray related studies in computational cosmology. The code follows the diffusive shock acceleration, the mechanical and radiative energy losses and the spatial transport of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Francesco Miniati

Multiphoton ionization provides a clear window into the nature of electron correlations in the helium atom. In the present study, the final state energy range extends up to the region near the $N=2$ and $N=3$ ionization thresholds, where…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Yimeng Wang , Chris H. Greene

A novel hybrid Monte Carlo transport scheme is demonstrated in a scene with solar illumination, scattering and absorbing 2D atmosphere, a textured reflecting mountain, and a small detector located in the sky (mounted on a satellite or a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Guillaume Bal , Anthony Davis , Ian Langmore

Recently an essential progress in development of physical models for cosmic ray induced ionization in the atmosphere is achieved. Basically, the models are full target, i.e. based on Monte Carlo simulation of an electromagnetic-muon-nucleon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-29 A. Mishev , P. I. Y. Velinov

We present a Monte Carlo (MC) code we wrote to simulate the photospheric process and to study the photospheric spectrum above the peak energy. Our simulations were performed with a photon to electron ratio $N_{\gamma}/N_{e} = 10^{5}$, as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-13 Rodolfo Santana , Patrick Crumley , Roberto A. Hernandez , Pawan Kumar