Abstract
A new, very fast method for 3D radiative transfer on fully threaded grids with arbitrarily high angular resolution is presented. The method uses completely cell-based discretization, and is ideally suited for problems with diffuse background radiation, often encountered in cosmological and star formation models. We find that for accurate statistical study of intergalactic Ly α absorption lines, one needs of the order of a few hundred angular discretization elements even for models without radiative feedback from star-forming galaxies.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1413-1417 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
| Volume | 362 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| State | Published - Oct 1 2005 |
Keywords
- Intergalactic medium
- Methods: numerical
- Radiative transfer