Understanding galaxy evolution through emission lines

LJ Kewley, DC Nicholls… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
We review the use of emission lines for understanding galaxy evolution, focusing on
excitation source, metallicity, ionization parameter, ISM pressure, and electron density. We …

Radiation transport methods in star formation simulations

R Wünsch - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Radiation transport plays a crucial role in star formation models, as certain questions within
this field cannot be accurately addressed without taking it into account. Given the high …

The physics of Lyman-α escape from disc-like galaxies

A Smith, R Kannan, S Tacchella… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Hydrogen emission lines can provide extensive information about star-forming galaxies in
both the local and high-redshift Universe. We present a detailed Lyman continuum (LyC) …

Spatially Resolved Temperature and Density Structures of Nearby H ii Regions

Y Jin, R Sutherland, LJ Kewley… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Photoionization models frequently assume constant temperature or density within H ii
regions. We investigate this assumption by measuring the detailed temperature and density …

Tetrahedral grids in Monte Carlo radiative transfer

A Lauwers, M Baes, P Camps… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. To understand the structures of complex astrophysical objects, 3D numerical
simulations of radiative transfer processes are invaluable. For Monte Carlo radiative transfer …

Photochemistry and heating/cooling of the multiphase interstellar medium with UV radiative transfer for magnetohydrodynamic simulations

JG Kim, M Gong, CG Kim… - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an efficient heating/cooling method coupled with chemistry and UV radiative
transfer that can be applied to numerical simulations of the interstellar medium (ISM). We …

Messenger Monte Carlo MAPPINGS V (M3)—A Self-consistent, Three-dimensional Photoionization Code

Y Jin, LJ Kewley, R Sutherland - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Messenger Interface Monte Carlo Mappings V (M 3) is a photoionization code
adopting the fully self-consistent Monte Carlo radiative transfer (MCRT) technique, which …

AREPO-MCRT: Monte Carlo radiation hydrodynamics on a moving mesh

A Smith, R Kannan, BTH Tsang… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present arepo-mcrt, a novel Monte Carlo radiative transfer radiation-hydrodynamics
(RHD) solver for the unstructured moving-mesh code arepo. Our method is designed for …

General Relativistic Implicit Monte Carlo Radiation-hydrodynamics

N Roth, P Anninos, PB Robinson… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on a new capability added to our general relativistic radiation-
magnetohydrodynamics code, Cosmos++: an implicit Monte Carlo (IMC) treatment for …

Smoothed particle radiation hydrodynamics: two-moment method with local Eddington tensor closure

TK Chan, T Theuns, R Bower… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present a new smoothed particle hydrodynamics-radiative transfer method (sph-m1rt)
that is coupled dynamically with sph. We implement it in the (task-based parallel) swift …