The Monte Carlo radiation hydrodynamics code CMacIonize
Summary and recent developments
Bert Vandenbroucke (bv7@st-andrews.ac.uk) Kenneth Wood (St Andrews) Nina Sartorio (SΓ£o JosΓ© dos Campos)
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The Monte Carlo radiation hydrodynamics code CMacIonize Summary and recent developments Bert Vandenbroucke (bv7@st-andrews.ac.uk) Kenneth Wood (St Andrews) Nina Sartorio (So Jos dos Campos) Slide 2 of 16 Photoionization WHAM survey (2003)
Bert Vandenbroucke (bv7@st-andrews.ac.uk) Kenneth Wood (St Andrews) Nina Sartorio (SΓ£o JosΓ© dos Campos)
NGC 604
HST, 1995
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π½ππβππ+1 is the total ionizing intensity π½ππ+1βππ π is the total recombination rate We need to solve to obtain equilibrium temperatures and ion densities These equations are highly non-linear; the ionizing intensity is non-local
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Regular (or AMR) grid Voronoi grid
ππ’ β 4ππΎπ π
π’π π
π
πππππ ππ
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Vandenbroucke & Wood (2018) https://github.com/bwvdnbro/CMacIonize
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based on Wood et al. (2013), Vandenbroucke & Sartorio (in prep.) Slide 7 of 16
based on Wood & Mathis (2004), Vandenbroucke & Sartorio (in prep.)
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Vandenbroucke & Sartorio, in prep.
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Vandenbroucke et al. (2018) Slide 10 of 16
Do hydro step Convert density field to number density field Do Monte Carlo photoionization Update pressure based
structure
ππ¦πΌ + ππ 1 β π¦πΌ
π = 500 K
Vandenbroucke & Wood (2018)
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Vandenbroucke & Wood (submitted to MNRAS)
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Sartorio et al. (2019)
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Sartorio & Vandenbroucke, in prep.
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Vandenbroucke & Wood (2018)
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https://github.com/bwvdnbro/CMacIonize Vandenbroucke & Wood (2018)
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