Progress towards a 3D Monte Carlo radiative transfer code for outflow wind modelling: II. 3-D applications

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Autori principali: Fišák, Jakub, Kubát, Jiří, Moens, Nicolas, Kubátová, Brankica
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author Fišák, Jakub
Kubát, Jiří
Moens, Nicolas
Kubátová, Brankica
author_facet Fišák, Jakub
Kubát, Jiří
Moens, Nicolas
Kubátová, Brankica
contents 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 winds are becoming important these days, mainly because 1-D models are not sufficient enough. We present a new version of our Monte Carlo radiative transfer code Andy Antares with improved treatment of the velocity field for arbitrary geometries. Our aim is to develop a numerical scheme that can incorporate a general velocity field defined at discrete points. Our main objective is to calculate radiative transfer in a general input hydrodynamic model. The Andy Antares code currently calculates pure radiative transfer. The input model is pre-calculated by another hydrodynamical code. The whole radiative transfer calculation is then processed in a Cartesian grid. Radiative transfer is solved using the Monte Carlo approach in 3-D regardless of the input hydrodynamical model's dimension. The velocity field at any given point is interpolated using the trilinear interpolation. The optical depth is then integrated numerically along the photon's path. We verified the accuracy of the numerical velocity interpolation by comparison with results obtained for analytical velocity fields, achieving successful outcomes. We also tested the radiative transfer solution on a 3-D model generated from a 2-D hydrodynamic model, and obtained emergent radiation. The code is suitable for the numerical solution of radiative transfer in 3-D with arbitrary velocity fields.
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spellingShingle Progress towards a 3D Monte Carlo radiative transfer code for outflow wind modelling: II. 3-D applications
Fišák, Jakub
Kubát, Jiří
Moens, Nicolas
Kubátová, Brankica
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
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 winds are becoming important these days, mainly because 1-D models are not sufficient enough. We present a new version of our Monte Carlo radiative transfer code Andy Antares with improved treatment of the velocity field for arbitrary geometries. Our aim is to develop a numerical scheme that can incorporate a general velocity field defined at discrete points. Our main objective is to calculate radiative transfer in a general input hydrodynamic model. The Andy Antares code currently calculates pure radiative transfer. The input model is pre-calculated by another hydrodynamical code. The whole radiative transfer calculation is then processed in a Cartesian grid. Radiative transfer is solved using the Monte Carlo approach in 3-D regardless of the input hydrodynamical model's dimension. The velocity field at any given point is interpolated using the trilinear interpolation. The optical depth is then integrated numerically along the photon's path. We verified the accuracy of the numerical velocity interpolation by comparison with results obtained for analytical velocity fields, achieving successful outcomes. We also tested the radiative transfer solution on a 3-D model generated from a 2-D hydrodynamic model, and obtained emergent radiation. The code is suitable for the numerical solution of radiative transfer in 3-D with arbitrary velocity fields.
title Progress towards a 3D Monte Carlo radiative transfer code for outflow wind modelling: II. 3-D applications
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.21782