Abstract
ABSTRACT We develop a Monte Carlo radiative transfer code to study the effect of turbulence with a finite correlation length on scattering of Ly α photons propagating through neutral atomic hydrogen gas. We investigate how the effective mean free path, the emergent spectrum, and the average number of scatterings that Ly α photons experience change in the presence of turbulence. We find that the correlation length is an important and sensitive parameter that has an influence on physically relevant properties of Ly α radiative transfer. In particular, it can significantly, by orders of magnitude, reduce the number of scattering events that the average Ly α photon undergoes before it escapes the turbulent cloud.
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