Benchmarking the calculation of stochastic heating and emissivity of dust grains in the context of radiative transfer simulations

Abstract

Context. Thermal emission by stochastically heated dust grains (SHGs) plays an important role in the radiative transfer (RT) problem for a dusty medium. It is therefore essential to verify that RT codes properly calculate the dust emission before studying the effects of spatial distribution and other model parameters on the simulated observables.