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
• 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 2010, MNRAS, 403, 17
• The GPU-accelerated dust SED calculation included in version 3.02+ is described in "Accelerating Dust Temperature Calculations with Graphics Processing Units", Jonsson & Primack 2010, New Astronomy, 15, 509
• 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.)

• "An observer's view of simulated galaxies: disc-to-total ratios, bars, and (pseudo-)bulges", Scannapieco, Gadotti, Jonsson & White 2010, MNRAS, in press
• "Misaligned Angular Momentum in Hydrodynamic Cosmological Simulations: Warps, Outer Discs, and Thick Discs", Roskar et al. 2010, MNRAS, in press
• "A physical model for z ~ 2 dust-obscured galaxies", Narayanan et al. 2010, MNRAS, in press
• "Spiral-Induced Star Formation in the Outer Disks of Galaxies", Bush, Cox, Hayward, Thilker, Hernquist & Besla 2010, ApJ, 713, 780
• A series of papers studying the morphologies of merging galaxies and using this to estimate the cosmological merger rate: Lotz, Jonsson, Cox & Primack 2008, MNRAS, 391, 1137, 2010, MNRAS, 404, 575, and 2010, MRAS, 404, 590.
• "Bulgeless dwarf galaxies and dark matter cores from supernova-driven outflows", Governato et al. 2010, Nature, 463, 203
• "The formation of high-redshift submillimetre galaxies", Narayanan et al. 2010, MNRAS, 401, 1613
• "Forming a large disc galaxy from a z < 1 major merger", Governato et al. 2009, MNRAS, 398, 312
• "Color Distributions, Number, and Mass Densities of Massive Galaxies at 1.5 < z < 3: Comparing Observations with Merger Simulations", Wuyts et al., 2009, ApJ, 700, 799
• "The merger-driven evolution of warm infrared luminous galaxies", Younger, Hayward, Narayanan, Cox, Hernquist & Jonsson 2009, MNRAS, 396, 66
• "The Role of Cold Flows in the Assembly of Galaxy Disks", Brooks, Governato, Quinn, Brook & Wadsley 2009, ApJ, 694, 396
• "The Formation of Polar Disk Galaxies", Brook, Governato, Quinn, Wadsley, Brooks, Willman, Stilp & Jonsson 2008, ApJ, 689, 678
• "Dust attenuation in hydrodynamic simulations of spiral galaxies", Rocha, Jonsson, Primack & Cox 2008, MNRAS, 383, 1281
• "Simulations of Dust in Interacting Galaxies. I. Dust Attenuation", Jonsson, Cox, Primack & Somerville 2005, ApJ, 637, 255