2004 - 2014: Ten years of radiative transfer with STOKES

TL;DR

This paper reviews ten years of scientific applications and results obtained using the radiative transfer code STOKES, highlighting its impact on modeling astrophysical spectroscopic, polarimetric, timing, and imaging data.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the diverse astrophysical scenarios modeled with STOKES over a decade, emphasizing its scientific contributions and developments.

Findings

Extensive use of STOKES across various astrophysical contexts.

Key insights into spectroscopic and polarimetric signatures.

Validation and enhancement of radiative transfer modeling techniques.

Abstract

Since it became publicly available in 2004, the radiative transfer code STOKES has been used to model the spectroscopic, polarimetric, timing and imaging signatures for different astrophysical scenarios. Ten years later, at the release of a new version of the Monte Carlo code, we make a census of the different scientific cases explored with STOKES and review the main results obtained so far.