Title: RAPTOR: Imaging code for relativistic plasmas in strong gravity
Creators: Bronzwaer, T.; Davelaar, J.; Younsi, Z.; Moscibrodzka, M.; Falcke, H. ; Kramer, M.; Rezzolla, L.
Date of Archiving: 2018
Archive: http://ascl.net/
Related links: https://github.com/tbronzwaer/raptor
Related publications: RAPTOR: I. Time-dependent radiative transfer in arbitrary spacetimes
Publication type: Dataset
Access level : open access

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item : https://hdl.handle.net/2066/192371   https://hdl.handle.net/2066/192371

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Key words: radiative transfer
black hole physics
accretion
accretion disks
Organization: Astrophysics
Abstract:
RAPTOR produces accurate images, animations, and spectra of relativistic plasmas in strong gravity by numerically integrating the equations of motion of light rays and performing time-dependent radiative transfer calculations along the rays. The code is compatible with any analytical or numerical spacetime, is hardware-agnostic and may be compiled and run on both GPUs and CPUs. RAPTOR is useful for studying accretion models of supermassive black holes, performing time-dependent radiative transfer through general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamical (GRMHD) simulations and investigating the expected observational differences between the so-called fastlight and slow-light paradigms.
Audience(s): Astronomy, astrophysics

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