1997/05/20 by Z. Ivezic, Željko Ivezić, M. A. T. Groenewegen +8
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Atmospheric Ozone and Climate #Atmospheric aerosols and clouds #Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9705154
4 pages, 2 Postscript figures (included), uses mn.sty. To appear in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
arxiv created 1997/05/20 · openalex publication_date 1997/05/20 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
When verifying a sophisticated numerical code, it is a usual practice to compare the results with reliable solutions obtained by other means. This work provides such solutions for the wavelength dependent dust radiative transfer problem. We define a set of benchmark problems in spherical geometry and solve them by three radiative transfer codes which implement different numerical schemes. Results for the dust temperature and emerging spectra agree to better than 0.1%, and can be used as benchmark solutions for the verification of the dust radiative transfer codes.