Klepitko, Andre Mark ORCID: 0000-0002-5570-1184 (2022). Tree-Based Radiative Transfer of Diffuse Sources: A Novel Scheme and its Application in Massive Star Formation. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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Abstract
Electromagnetic radiation plays an essential role in the evolution of astrophysical phenomena. Solving radiative transfer in numerical radiation hydrodynamics simulations is expensive and challenging. This work presents a novel method called \textsc{TreeRay/RadPressure} employing a tree-based backwards ray-tracing approach to compute radiative transfer of non-ionizing radiation on diffuse sources such as interstellar dust. The novel scheme allows for every computational entity to be a source of radiation and a contributor towards extinction. The scheme is implemented and tested for a finite volume method and can be generalized to work with particles of, for example, a Smoothed-Particle-Hydrodynamics method. The scheme developed in this thesis is suitable to compute radiation pressure on dust and gas. Coupled to a chemical network, the method allows to accurately model radiative cooling and heating of dust. An application of the scheme in the context of massive star formation shows that fragmentation induced by self-gravity is reduced by the scheme's more accurate teatmennt of cooling and heating. In particular, self-shielding of dust allows efficient cooling only from the surface of optically thick regions. With the help of \textsc{TreeRay/RadPressure}, the role of metallicity in the collapse of a subvirial turbulent core forming a massive stars is investigated. The core has a radius of 0.1 parsec and a mass of 150 solar masses. Along with ionizing radiation computed by \textsc{TreeRay/OnTheSpot}, the relative strength of radiation pressure and ionizing feedback are examined. Radiation pressure is the dominant feedback mechanism during the formation of the massive star while it hosts an ultra-compact HII region. Radiation pressure does not halt accretion onto the massive star and its strength is reduced once a disk establishes. Greater metallicities favour fragmentation by enhancing cooling. This results in a greater multiplicity with increased metallicity. Radiation pressure manages to launch bipolar outflows along the rotational axis of the disk. \textsc{TreeRay/RadPressure} is compared to a multi-wavelength scheme based on RADMC-3D to compute radiation pressure. The comparison is done using non-trivial density distributions generated by radiation hydrodynamics simulations with \textsc{TreeRay/RadPressure}. The comparison shows the radiation pressure calculations of both schemes to agree for the majority of density and luminosity configurations. Simplfied theoretical modelling using the optical depth as a proxy for the momentum boost fails to estimate the radiation pressure.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-705046 | ||||||||
Date: | 21 August 2022 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Physics > Institute of Physics I | ||||||||
Subjects: | Physics | ||||||||
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Date of oral exam: | 18 October 2022 | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/70504 |
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