2004 - 2014: Ten years of radiative transfer with STOKES

Abstract

Since it became publicly available in 2004, the radiative transfer code STOKES has been used to model the spectroscopic, polarimetric, timing and imaging signatures for different astrophysical scenarios. Ten years later, at the release of a new version of the Monte Carlo code, we make a census of the different scientific cases explored with STOKES and review the main results obtained so far.