Dr. Bert Vander Meulen

ESA Research Fellow | X-ray radiative transfer with the SKIRT code

I study X-ray reprocessing in obscured X-ray sources using the X-ray radiative transfer code SKIRT, and observational X-ray data from XRISM, XMM-Newton, IXPE, NuSTAR, and Chandra.

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Bert Vander Meulen

Research Interests

The SKIRT code

SKIRT is a state-of-the-art 3D radiative transfer code to model high-resolution X-ray spectra (and X-ray polarisation). I started the X-ray SKIRT project in 2021.

Obscured AGN

I am interested in the AGN torus, i.e. the cold gas and dust causing obscuration and reflection in the X-ray band, and also more complex models for AGN obscuration.

X-ray binaries

I study high-resolution XRISM observations of obscured XRBs with prominent X-ray reflection features, and IXPE observations of reflection-induced X-ray polarisation.

Selected Publications

X-ray radiative transfer in full 3D with SKIRT
Bert Vander Meulen, Peter Camps, Marko Stalevski, Maarten Baes
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023
X-ray polarisation in AGN circumnuclear media: Polarisation framework and 2D torus models
Bert Vander Meulen, Peter Camps, Ðorđe Savić, Maarten Baes, Giorgio Matt, Marko Stalevski
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024
Intrinsic line profiles for X-ray fluorescent lines in SKIRT
Bert Vander Meulen, Peter Camps, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Keiichi Wada
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024
Detection of the Orbital Modulation of Fe Kα Fluorescence Emission in Centaurus X-3 Using the High-resolution Spectrometer Resolve on board XRISM
Yuto Mochizuki, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Richard L. Kelley, Bert Vander Meulen, Teruaki Enoto, Yutaro Nagai, Chris Done, Pragati Pradhan, Natalie Hell, Katja Pottschmidt, Ken Ebisawa, Ehud Behar
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2024
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