G. Altay
URCHIN: a reverse ray tracer for astrophysical applications
Altay, G.; Theuns, T.
Abstract
We describe URCHIN, a reverse ray-tracing radiative transfer scheme optimized to model self-shielding from the post-reionization ultraviolet (UV) background in cosmological simulations. The reverse ray-tracing strategy provides several benefits over forward ray-tracing codes including: (1) the preservation of adaptive density field resolution; (2) completely uniform sampling of gas elements by rays; (3) the preservation of Galilean invariance; (4) the ability to sample the UV background spectrum with hundreds of frequency bins; and (5) exact preservation of the input UV background spectrum and amplitude in optically thin gas. The implementation described here focuses on smoothed particle hydrodynamics. However, the method can be applied to any density field representation in which resolution elements admit ray intersection tests and can be associated with optical depths. We characterize the errors in our implementation in stages beginning with comparison to known analytic solutions and ending with a realistic model of the z = 3 cosmological UV background incident on to a suite of spherically symmetric models of gaseous galactic haloes.
Citation
Altay, G., & Theuns, T. (2013). URCHIN: a reverse ray tracer for astrophysical applications. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 434(1), 748-764. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1067
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Sep 1, 2013 |
Deposit Date | Jan 20, 2014 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 30, 2014 |
Journal | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Print ISSN | 0035-8711 |
Electronic ISSN | 1365-2966 |
Publisher | Royal Astronomical Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 434 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 748-764 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1067 |
Keywords | Radiative transfer, Methods: numerical, Intergalactic medium, Quasars: absorption lines, Diffuse radiation, Ultraviolet: general. |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1472631 |
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