Comparison of Polarized Radiative Transfer Codes Used by the EHT Collaboration
Prather,Ben S.149; Dexter,Jason148; Moscibrodzka,Monika147; Pu,Hung-Yi144,145,146; Bronzwaer,Thomas147; Davelaar,Jordy141,142,143; Younsi,Ziri139,140; Gammie,Charles F.136,137,138; Gold,Roman135; Wong,George N.133,134
刊名The Astrophysical Journal
2023-06-01
卷号950期号:1
ISSN号0004-637X
DOI10.3847/1538-4357/acc586
产权排序第109完成单位
文献子类Article
英文摘要

Interpretation of resolved polarized images of black holes by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) requires predictions of the polarized emission observable by an Earth-based instrument for a particular model of the black hole accretion system. Such predictions are generated by general relativistic radiative transfer (GRRT) codes, which integrate the equations of polarized radiative transfer in curved spacetime. A selection of ray-tracing GRRT codes used within the EHT Collaboration is evaluated for accuracy and consistency in producing a selection of test images, demonstrating that the various methods and implementations of radiative transfer calculations are highly consistent. When imaging an analytic accretion model, we find that all codes produce images similar within a pixel-wise normalized mean squared error (NMSE) of 0.012 in the worst case. When imaging a snapshot from a cell-based magnetohydrodynamic simulation, we find all test images to be similar within NMSEs of 0.02, 0.04, 0.04, and 0.12 in Stokes I, Q, U, and V, respectively. We additionally find the values of several image metrics relevant to published EHT results to be in agreement to much better precision than measurement uncertainties.

学科主题天文学 ; 天体物理学 ; 高能天体物理学 ; 星系与宇宙学
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语种英语
出版者The American Astronomical Society
WOS记录号IOP:APJ_950_1_35
内容类型期刊论文
源URL[http://ir.ynao.ac.cn/handle/114a53/26126]  
专题云南天文台_高能天体物理研究组
通讯作者Prather,Ben S.
作者单位1.Google Research, 355 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
2.Bard College, 30 Campus Road, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504, USA
3.Astronomy Department, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, People's Republic of China
4.School of Astronomy and Space Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
5.School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, People's Republic of China
6.Radboud Excellence Fellow of Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
7.Tuorla Observatory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, Finland
8.Physics Department, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453, USA
9.Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, UK
10.University of New Mexico, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
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Prather,Ben S.,Dexter,Jason,Moscibrodzka,Monika,et al. Comparison of Polarized Radiative Transfer Codes Used by the EHT Collaboration[J]. The Astrophysical Journal,2023,950(1).
APA Prather,Ben S..,Dexter,Jason.,Moscibrodzka,Monika.,Pu,Hung-Yi.,Bronzwaer,Thomas.,...&,.(2023).Comparison of Polarized Radiative Transfer Codes Used by the EHT Collaboration.The Astrophysical Journal,950(1).
MLA Prather,Ben S.,et al."Comparison of Polarized Radiative Transfer Codes Used by the EHT Collaboration".The Astrophysical Journal 950.1(2023).
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