xsbvnei

Context: models

Synopsis

The XSPEC bvnei model: collisional plasma, non-equilibrium, constant temperature.

Syntax

xsbvnei

The xsbvnei model is an additive model component.

Description

The model is described at [1] . The set_xsxset and get_xsxset functions are used to set and query the XSPEC XSET parameters, in particular the keyword "NEIVERS".

Example

>>> create_model_component("xsbvnei", "mdl")
>>> print(mdl)

Create a component of the xsbvnei model and display its default parameters. The output is:

mdl
   Param        Type          Value          Min          Max      Units
   -----        ----          -----          ---          ---      -----
   mdl.kT       thawed            1       0.0808         79.9        keV
   mdl.H        frozen            1            0            1           
   mdl.He       frozen            1            0        10000           
   mdl.C        frozen            1            0        10000           
   mdl.N        frozen            1            0        10000           
   mdl.O        frozen            1            0        10000           
   mdl.Ne       frozen            1            0        10000           
   mdl.Mg       frozen            1            0        10000           
   mdl.Si       frozen            1            0        10000           
   mdl.S        frozen            1            0        10000           
   mdl.Ar       frozen            1            0        10000           
   mdl.Ca       frozen            1            0        10000           
   mdl.Fe       frozen            1            0        10000           
   mdl.Ni       frozen            1            0        10000           
   mdl.Tau      thawed        1e+11        1e+08        5e+13     s/cm^3
   mdl.Redshift frozen            0       -0.999           10           
   mdl.Velocity frozen            0            0        10000       km/s
   mdl.norm     thawed            1            0        1e+24

ATTRIBUTES

The attributes for this object are:

Attribute	Definition
kT	The temperature of the plasma, in keV.
He, C, N, O, Ne, Na, Mg, Al, Si, S, Ar, Ca, Fe, Ni	The abundance relative to Solar.
Tau	The ionization timescale in units of s/cm^3.
redshift	The redshift of the plasma.
Velocity	The gaussian sigma for the velocity broadening (in km/s).
norm	The normalization of the model: see [1] for an explanation of the units.

References

[1] https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xanadu/xspec/manual/XSmodelNei.html

Changes in CIAO

Added in CIAO 4.17

XSPEC version

CIAO 4.17 comes with support for version 12.14.0k of the XSPEC models. This can be checked with the following:

% python -c 'from sherpa.astro import xspec;
print(xspec.get_xsversion())'
12.14.0k

Bugs

See the bugs pages on the Sherpa website for an up-to-date listing of known bugs.