Efficient radiative transfer modelling with SKIRT
Abstract
We present SKIRT, a three-dimensional Monte Carlo radiative transfer code developed to study dusty galaxies. We discuss SKIRT's most important characteristics and present a number of applications. In particular, we focus on the kinematical aspect of SKIRT. We demonstrate that dust attenuation mimics the presence of dark matter around elliptical galaxies and that it severely affects the rotation curves of edge-on galaxies.
- Publication:
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The Spectral Energy Distributions of Gas-Rich Galaxies: Confronting Models with Data
- Pub Date:
- April 2005
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0503483
- Bibcode:
- 2005AIPC..761...27B
- Keywords:
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- 95.30.Jx;
- 98.52.Eh;
- 95.35.+d;
- Radiative transfer;
- scattering;
- Elliptical galaxies;
- Dark matter;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 12 pages, 5 figures. To appear in "The Spectral Energy Distribution of Gas-Rich Galaxies: Confronting Models with Data", eds. C.C. Popescu and R.J. Tuffs, AIP Conference Series. A version with high resolution figures can be found at http://allserv.ugent.be/~mbaes/AIP.ps.gz