xscompls

Context: models

Synopsis

The XSPEC compLS model: Comptonization, Lamb & Sanford.

Syntax

xscompls

The xscompls model is an additive model component.

Description

The model is described at [1] .

Example

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

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

mdl
   Param        Type          Value          Min          Max      Units
   -----        ----          -----          ---          ---      -----
   mdl.kT       thawed            2        0.001           20        keV
   mdl.tau      thawed           10       0.0001          200           
   mdl.norm     thawed            1            0        1e+24

ATTRIBUTES

The attributes for this object are:

Attribute	Definition
kT	The blackbody temperature, in keV.
tau	The optical depth of the plasma.
norm	The model normalization.

References

[1]

XSPEC version

CIAO 4.18 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.

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