Ionizing Radiation in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

Details Ionizing Radiation in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Ionizing Radiation in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

2000-02-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0002251v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 9 figures. accepted by MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03451.x

A new method for the inclusion of ionizing radiation from uniform radiation fields into 3D Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPHI) simulations is presented. We calculate the optical depth for the Lyman continuum radiation from the source towards the SPHI particles by ray-tracing integration. The time-dependent ionization rate equation is then solved locally for the particles within the ionizing radiation field. Using test calculations, we explore the numerical behaviour of the code with respect to the implementation of the time-dependent ionization rate equation. We also test the coupling of the heating caused by the ionization to the hydrodynamical part of the SPHI code.

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