CO[5]BOLD

COnservative COde for the COmputation of COmpressible COnvection in a BOx of L Dimensions with l=2,3
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One of the models used to compute synthetic solar spectra. The simulations were created at the AIP using the radiative hydrodynamics code CO5BOLD. Dark lanes are the intergranular regions of cooler temperature that harbor magnetic field structures.

Credit: AIP

Code record at Astrophysics Source Code Library: http://ascl.net/1011.014

Partners:

Landessternwarte Heidelberg

Involved AIP sections and groups:

Stellar Physics and Exoplanets
Last update: 9. December 2020