Radiation Pressure on Fluffy Submicron-Sized Grains (Silsbee & Draine 2016)

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Radiation Pressure on Fluffy Submicron-Sized Grains (Silsbee & Draine 2016)

Silsbee & Draine (2016) calculate forces and torques resulting from absorption and scattering of light on a number of different candidate "fluffy" grains. As described in Silsbee & Draine (2016), calculations were carried out using

the Multisphere Transition Matrix code "mstm" created by Daniel Mackowski (available from http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~dmckwski/scatcodes/),
the Discrete Dipole Approximation code DDSCAT code created by B.T. Draine and Piotr J. Flatau (available from http://www.ddscat.org).
To provide methodological examples, we provide here a number of files related to the calculations involved in producing Figure 2 of Silsbee & Draine (2016).
README.txt : description of files
BAM1.32.9.targ : geometry of cluster BAM1.32.9 (input for DDSCAT)
BAM1.32.9.mstm : geometry of cluster BAM1.32.9 (input for mstm)
astrosil : astrosilicate dielectric function vs wavelength
ddscat.par : input parameters for one DDSCAT calculation
mstm.inp : input parameters for one mstm calculation
ddscat_results.txt : table of DDSCAT results for solar spectrum
mstm_results.txt : table of mstm results for solar spectrum

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