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This paper presents an overview of several modeling tools for analyzing molecular line observations at submillimeter wavelengths. These tools are already proving to be very valuable for the interpretation of data from current telescopes,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Floris van der Tak , Michiel Hogerheijde

The massive hot stars play crucial role in the dynamics of galaxies. These stars influence their surroundings through strong winds which are highly structured processes. The theoretical study of the non-symmetric phenomena of the stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-30 Jakub Fišák , Jiří Kubát , Nicolas Moens , Brankica Kubátová

We study the effects of optically thick clumps, non-void inter-clump medium, variation of the onset of clumping, and velocity dispersion inside clumps on the formation of resonance lines. For this purpose we developed a full 3-D Monte Carlo…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-22 Brankica Šurlan , Wolf-Rainer Hamann , Jiří Kubát , Lidia Oskinova , Achim Feldmeier

Three bright molecular line sources in G333 have recently been shown to exhibit signatures of infall. We describe a molecular line radiative transfer modelling process which is required to extract the infall signature from Mopra and Nanten2…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-20 B. Wiles , N. Lo , M. P. Redman , M. R. Cunningham , P. A. Jones , M. G. Burton , L. Bronfman

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is a new powerful tool for observing the Sun at high spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution. These capabilities can address a broad range of fundamental scientific questions in…

To test theoretical models of massive star formation it is important to compare their predictions with observed systems. To this end, we conduct CO molecular line radiative transfer post-processing of 3D magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-11 Duo Xu , Jonathan C. Tan , Jan E. Staff , Jon P. Ramsey , Yichen Zhang , Kei E. Tanaka

We propose a method of simulation that is based on the averaging of formal solutions of the transfer equation by taking the integral by the Monte Carlo method. This method is used to compute two models, which correspond to the limiting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maxim A. Voronkov

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) offers new diagnostic capabilities for studying the Sun, providing complementary insights through high spatial and temporal resolution at millimeter wavelengths. ALMA acts as a linear…

Resonance lines encode rich information about astrophysical sources and their environments, yet fully analytic treatments of multi-line radiative transfer remain almost entirely unexplored. We present exact, closed-form solutions for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-18 Ethan Stace , Aaron Smith , Kevin Lorinc , Olof Nebrin

Using a Monte Carlo technique, we have developed a 3D lyman-alpha radiation transfer code allowing for prescribed arbitrary hydrogen density, ionisation, temperature structures, and dust distribution, and arbitrary velocity fields and UV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Anne Verhamme , Daniel Schaerer , Antonella Maselli

A one-dimensional method for reconstructing the structure of prestellar and protostellar clouds is presented. The method is based on radiative transfer computations and a comparison of theoretical and observed intensity distributions at…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Ya. N. Pavlyuchenkov , D. S. Wiebe , A. M. Fateeva , T. S. Vasyunina

Sub-millimetre dust emission is often used to derive the column density N of dense interstellar clouds. The observations consist of data at several wavelengths but of variable resolution. We examine two procedures that been proposed for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Juvela , J. Malinen , T. Lunttila

A revised and greatly improved version of the 3D continuum radiative transfer code MC3D is presented. It is based on the Monte-Carlo method and solves the radiative transfer problem self-consistently. It is designed for the simulation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sebastian Wolf

Motivated by observational and theoretical work which both suggest very small scale ($\lesssim 1\,$pc) structure in the circum-galactic medium of galaxies and in other environments, we study Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) radiative transfer in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-22 Max Gronke , Mark Dijkstra , Michael McCourt , S. Peng Oh

Molecule generation, especially generating 3D molecular geometries from scratch (i.e., 3D \textit{de novo} generation), has become a fundamental task in drug designs. Existing diffusion-based 3D molecule generation methods could suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Lei Huang , Hengtong Zhang , Tingyang Xu , Ka-Chun Wong

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array offers an unprecedented view of our Sun at sub-/millimeter wavelengths. The high spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution facilitates the measurement of gas temperatures and magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-18 Sven Wedemeyer , Asbjorn Parmer

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

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

It is commonly adopted that X-rays from O stars are produced deep inside the stellar wind, and transported outwards through the bulk of the expanding matter which attenuates the radiation and affects the shape of emission line profiles. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. M. Oskinova , A. Feldmeier , W. -R. Hamann

We introduce two new methods that are designed to improve the realism and utility of large, active region-scale 3D MHD models of the solar atmosphere. We apply these methods to RADMHD, a code capable of modeling the Sun's upper convection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-06 William P. Abbett , George H. Fisher