Benchmarks

SKIRT properly performs the major benchmarks published in the areas to which the code is applicable. The geometries, source spectra and medium properties needed for all of these benchmarks are built into SKIRT, so you can run them without changing the code. The SKIRT parameter file (ski file) for each benchmark is offered for download on the corresponding page.

• Ivezić et al. 1997: Spherically symmetric circumstellar dust shell
• van Zadelhoff et al. 2002: Non-LTE line radiative transfer in a sphere
• Pascucci et al. 2004: Axisymmetric circumstellar dust disk
• Dijkstra et al. 2006: Static Lyman-alpha sphere
• Tasitsiomi 2006: Expanding or contracting Lyman-alpha sphere
• Pinte et al. 2009: Polarization from scattering in an axisymmetric dust disk
• Camps et al. 2015: Stochastically heated dust grains
• Gordon et al. 2017: Dust slab externally illuminated by a star
• Peest et al. 2017: Polarization test cases
• Vander Meulen et al. 2023: X-ray reprocessing by smooth torus