Journal
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 394, Issue 2, Pages 882-891Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.14373.x
Keywords
accretion, accretion discs; hydrodynamics; radiative transfer; methods: numerical; stars: formation
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- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA)
- STFC [PP/E000967/1]
- Marie Curie Research Training Network [MRTN-CT2006-035890]
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [PP/E000967/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [PP/E000967/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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A new means of incorporating radiative transfer into smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is introduced, which builds on the success of two previous methods - the polytropic cooling approximation as devised by Stamatellos et al. and flux-limited diffusion. This hybrid method preserves the strengths of its individual components, while removing the need for atmosphere matching or other boundary conditions to marry optically thick and optically thin regions. The code uses a non-trivial equation of state to calculate temperatures and opacities of SPH particles, which captures the effects of H-2 dissociation, H-0 ionization, He-0 and He+ ionization, ice evaporation, dust sublimation, molecular absorption, bound-free and free - free transitions and electron scattering. The method is tested in several scenarios, including (i) the evolution of a 0.07 M-circle dot protoplanetary disc surrounding a 0.5 M-circle dot star; (ii) the collapse of a 1 M-circle dot protostellar cloud and (iii) the thermal relaxation of temperature fluctuations in a static homogeneous sphere.
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