User Manual for DUSTY

TL;DR

DUSTY is a versatile, exact numerical code for modeling radiation transport in dusty environments, supporting various geometries, dust properties, and spectral configurations, with extensive user customization and detailed output options.

Contribution

It introduces an exact, self-consistent solution method for radiation transfer in dusty media, accommodating complex dust properties and geometries without approximations.

Findings

Accurately computes dust temperature and radiation fields.

Supports diverse dust types and density distributions.

Enables detailed spectral and imaging analysis.

Abstract

DUSTY solves the problem of radiation transport in a dusty environment. The code can handle both spherical and planar geometries. The user specifies the properties of the radiation source and dusty region, and the code calculates the dust temperature distribution and the radiation field in it. The solution method is based on a self-consistent equation for the radiative energy density, including dust scattering, absorption and emission, and does not introduce any approximations. The solution is exact to within the specified numerical accuracy. DUSTY has built in optical properties for the most common types of astronomical dust and comes with a library for many other grains. It supports various analytical forms for the density distribution, and can perform a full dynamical calculation for radiatively driven winds around AGB stars. The spectral energy distribution of the source can be specified analytically as either Planckian or broken power-law. In addition, arbitrary dust optical properties, density distributions and external radiation can be entered in user supplied files. Furthermore, the wavelength grid can be modified to accommodate spectral features. A single DUSTY run can process an unlimited number of models, with each input set producing a run of optical depths, as specified. The user controls the detail level of the output, which can include both spectral and imaging properties as well as other quantities of interest.