A 3D radiative transfer framework: V. Homologous Flows

Details A 3D radiative transfer framework: V. Homologous Flows A 3D radiative transfer framework: V. Homologous Flows

2009-03-13

arxiv.org/abs/0903.2486v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

6 pages, 3 figures, Astronomy & Astrophysics, in press

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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 moving atmospheres. We present an implementation of the solution of the radiative transfer equation in 3-D homologously expanding atmospheres in spherical coordinates. The implementation is exact to all orders in v/c. We use a new affine method that makes use of the fact that photons travel on straight lines. We compare our results in 3-D for spherically symmetric test problems with high velocity fields and find excellent agreement. Our well-tested 1-D results are based on methods where the momentum directions vary along the characteristic (co-moving momentum directions). Thus, we are able to verify both the analytic framework and its numerical implementation. Additionally, we have been able to test the parallelization over characteristics. Using 512^2 momentum angles we ran the code on 16,384 Opteron processors and achieved excellent scaling. It is now possible to calculate synthetic spectra from realistic 3D hydro simulations. This should open an era of progress in hydro modeling, similar to that that occurred in the 1980s when 1-D models were confronted with synthetic spectra.

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