1112.1071 (Thomas P. Robitaille)
Thomas P. Robitaille
HYPERION is a new three-dimensional dust continuum Monte-Carlo radiative
transfer code that is designed to be as generic as possible, allowing radiative
transfer to be computed through a variety of three-dimensional grids. The main
part of the code is problem-independent, and only requires an arbitrary
three-dimensional density structure, dust properties, the position and
properties of the illuminating sources, and parameters controlling the running
and output of the code. HYPERION is parallelized, and is shown to scale well to
thousands of processes. Two common benchmark models for protoplanetary disks
were computed, and the results are found to be in excellent agreement with
those from other codes. Finally, to demonstrate the capabilities of the code,
dust temperatures, SEDs, and synthetic multi-wavelength images were computed
for a dynamical simulation of a low-mass star formation region. HYPERION is
being actively developed to include new features, and is publicly available
(http://www.hyperion-rt.org).
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1071
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