Welcome to MCFOST’s documentation

Contents:

• MCFOST Overview
  • Slack channel
• Requirements and Installation
  • Binary Installation Procedure
  • Installation from source
  • MCFOST_UTILS Environment variable
  • Parallelization
  • Setting the stacksize
  • Upgrading to New Versions
• Running MCFOST
  • Typical organisation of a calculation
  • Temperature and SED Calculation
  • Image and Polarization Map Calculations
  • Molecular Line Calculations
• Outputs from MCFOST
  • Outputs from SED mode calculations
  • Outputs from Image calculations
  • Outputs from Molecular Line calculations
  • Additional optional outputs
• Parameter File Contents
  • Photon count setup
  • Wavelength setup
  • Grid geometry
  • Images
  • Scattering Method
  • Symmetries
  • Disk physics
  • Number of Zones
  • Density structure
  • Grain properties
  • Molecular RT settings
  • Star properties
• Input Data Files
  • Dust Optical Constants
  • Stellar Models
• Command line options
  • Basic options
  • Main options
  • Coupling with other codes
  • File organisation
  • Options related to images
  • Disk structure
  • Stellar Properties
  • Dust properties
  • Options related to molecular emission
• Running a 3D model
• MCFOST + Phantom
  • Number of photons for temperature and image calculation
  • Turn off SED computation
  • Turn off image symmetries
  • Can ignore the following, they come from the phantom dump
  • Density structure
  • Star properties
• Analysis tools
• MCFOST test suite
• Troubleshooting
  • Most common error messages

About this documentation

This manual for MCFOST is collectively written by Marshall Perrin, Gaspard Duchene, and Christophe Pinte. Contributions of improvements are welcomed.

References

Pinte, C., Harries, T. J., Min, M., et al. 2009, A&A, 498, 967

Pinte, C., Ménard, F., Duchêne, G., & Bastien, P. 2006, A&A, 459, 797

For the atomic line transfer:

Tessore, B., Pinte, C., Bouvier, J., Ménard, F., 2021, A&A, 647, A27