Optab: Public code for generating gas opacity tables for radiation hydrodynamics simulations

TL;DR

Optab is a publicly available, high-performance code that generates detailed gas opacity tables for astrophysical radiation hydrodynamics simulations, allowing customization of opacity sources.

Contribution

We introduce Optab, a flexible, high-performance Fortran code for generating customizable gas opacity tables for astrophysics simulations.

Findings

Successfully validated opacity calculations.

Demonstrated code's performance and flexibility.

Provided detailed implementation and validation results.

Abstract

We have developed a public code, Optab, that outputs Rosseland, Planck, and two-temperature Planck mean gas opacity tables for radiation hydrodynamics simulations in astrophysics. The code is developed for modern high-performance computing, being written in Fortran 90 and using Message Passing Interface and Hierarchical Data Format, Version 5. The purpose of this work is to provide a platform on which users can generate opacity tables for their own research purposes. Therefore, the code has been designed so that a user can easily modify, change, or add opacity sources in addition to those already implemented, which include bremsstrahlung, photoionization, Rayleigh scattering, line absorption, and collision-induced absorption. In this paper, we provide details of the opacity calculations in our code and present validation tests to evaluate the performance of our code.