Radiative transfer in moving media II. Solution of the radiative transfer equation in axial symmetry

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2005-06-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0506378v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 19 figures. accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20041992

A new method for the formal solution of the 2D radiative transfer equation in axial symmetry in the presence of arbitrary velocity fields is presented. The combination of long and short characteristics methods is used to solve the radiative transfer equation. We include the velocity field in detail using the Local Lorentz Transformation. This allows us to obtain a significantly better description of the photospheric region, where the gradient of the global velocity is too small for the Sobolev approximation to be valid. Sample test calculations for the case of a stellar wind and a rotating atmosphere are presented.

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