FIRTEZ-dz

• Published in: Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin) Vol. 629
• Main Authors: Pastor Yabar, A., Borrero, J. M., Ruiz Cobo, B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg EDP Sciences 01.09.2019
• Subjects: Component reliability; Density; Gas pressure; Inverse problems; methods: data analysis; methods: numerical; Optical thickness; Parallel processing; Physical properties; polarization; Radiative transfer; techniques: polarimetric
• ISSN: 0004-6361; 1432-0746
• DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935692

We present a numerical code that solves the forward and inverse problem of the polarized radiative transfer equation in geometrical scale under the Zeeman regime. The code is fully parallelized, making it able to easily handle large observational and simulated datasets. We checked the reliability of the forward and inverse modules through different examples. In particular, we show that even when properly inferring various physical parameters (temperature, magnetic field components, and line-of-sight velocity) in optical depth, their reliability in height-scale depends on the accuracy with which the gas-pressure or density are known. The code is made publicly available as a tool to solve the radiative transfer equation and perform the inverse solution treating each pixel independently. An important feature of this code, that will be exploited in the future, is that working in geometrical-scale allows for the direct calculation of spatial derivatives, which are usually required in order to estimate the gas pressure and/or density via the momentum equation in a three-dimensional volume, in particular the three-dimensional Lorenz force.