Radiative
			Transfer

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Radiative Transfer is a high-speed C++ engine for simulating radiative transfer through interstellar media. It has been used to discover what may be the first image of a planet outside our solar system. It can also produce some very pretty pictures.

0. Table of Contents

1. What It Does
2. How It Works
3. Additional Reading
4. Related Sites
5. Obtaining RT

1. What it does

2. How it works

3. Additional Reading

1. The Design and Construction of Radiative Transfer
   Slides from a presentation given at Caltech (29 Jan. 1998).

4. Related Sites

• Extrasolar Research, Inc.
  Used RT to obtain Hubble time that lead to the discovery of TMR-1C. Although RT has not yet been used to simulate this unusual object, it has produced simulated images remarkably similar to real Hubble images of stellar formation.

5. Obtaining RT

RT is temporarily unavailable for download. The finalization of the C++ standard and subsequent changes to the C++ development tools used to RT necessitate some changes in the code base. When the update complete, RT will again be made available here.

Last updated: 27 July, 1999.

Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999 Michael Brundage