2007/10/10 by Barbara Ercolano, Peter R. Young, J. J. Drake +3 · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Atmospheric Ozone and Climate #Photocathodes and Microchannel Plates #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/524378
Accepted for publication in ApJS 9 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2007/10/10 · openalex publication_date 2008/03/24 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present a new version of the fully 3D photoionization and dust radiative transfer code, MOCASSIN, that uses a Monte Carlo approach for the transfer of radiation. The X-ray enabled MOCASSIN allows a fully geometry independent description of low-density gaseous environments strongly photoionized by a radiation field extending from radio to gamma rays. The code has been thoroughly benchmarked against other established codes routinely used in the literature, using simple plane parallel models designed to test performance under standard conditions. We show the results of our benchmarking exercise and discuss applicability and limitations of the new code, which should be of guidance for future astrophysical studies with MOCASSIN.