Patrik Jonsson

Astrophysicist
Institute for Theory & Computation
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden St., MS-51
Cambridge, MA 02138

The documentation for Sunrise is a work in progress... The main repository of documents describing how to compile and use Sunrise is the Wiki on the Sunrise Google Code project page where users can contribute documentation. Any help would be most appreciated, so if you have a write-up about how to build or run Sunrise, please contribute.

If you need help, post a message in the Sunrise discussion group. (Due to spam bots, you have to request to be signed up before you can post). Using the group is preferable to sending me email directly, as the information then is searchable by others.

Scientific Publications

The journal articles that describe the problem Sunrise solves and the algorithm used are:

• The basic functionality, including the polychromatic radiation transfer algorithm, is described in "Sunrise: Polychromatic Dust Radiative Transfer in Arbitrary Geometries", Jonsson 2006, MNRAS, 372, 2 (ADS)
• The IR emission and MAPPINGS models of star-forming regions are described in "High-Resolution Panchromatic Spectral Models of Galaxies including Photoionisation and Dust", Jonsson, Groves & Cox, 2009 (arXiv:0906.2156)
• The GPU-accelerated dust SED calculation included in version 3.02+ is described in "Accelerating Dust Temperature Calculations with Graphics Processing Units", Jonsson & Primack, 2009 (arXiv:0907.3768)
• If you want the really gory details of how Sunrise works (at least early versions), you can also look at my Ph.D. thesis from 2004: PDF for printing (2.6MB, for duplex) or PDF for computer browsing (2.6MB, with hyperlinks)

Code Documentation

The code itself is documented using Doxygen. This is the place to go for browsing through the actual code. Unfortunately, there is currently no good high-level overview of the code design.

Bugs

There is a Bugzilla bug database for Sunrise at http://governator.ucsc.edu/bugs. Currently down.

Papers using Sunrise

(That I know of, that is. If your paper isn't here, send me an email.)

• A study of the morphologies of merging galaxies: Lotz, Jonsson, Cox & Primack 2008, arXiv:0805.1246.
• Studies of dust attenuation in simulations of spiral galaxies: Rocha, Jonsson, Primack & Cox 2008, MNRAS, 383, 1281 (ADS).
• Simulations of polar disk galaxies observed with Sunrise by the UW group: Brook, Governato, Quinn, Wadsley, Brooks, Willman, Stilp & Jonsson 2008, arXiv:0802.1051
• Fits to dust attenuations of our simulations of merging galaxies in various bands, with a general introduction to the simulations: Jonsson, Cox, Primack & Somerville 2005, ApJ, 637, 255 (ADS).