Last modified: December 2025

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xszvfeabs

Context: models

Synopsis

The XSPEC zvfeabs model: photoelectric absorption with free Fe edge energy.

Syntax

xszvfeabs

The xszvfeabs model is a multiplicative model component.

Description

The model is described at [1] .


Example

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

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

mdl
   Param        Type          Value          Min          Max      Units
   -----        ----          -----          ---          ---      -----
   mdl.nH       thawed            1            0        1e+06 10^22 atoms / cm^2
   mdl.metals   thawed            1            0          100           
   mdl.FEabun   thawed            1            0          100           
   mdl.FEKedge  thawed         7.11            7          9.5        keV
   mdl.Redshift frozen            0       -0.999           10           

ATTRIBUTES

The attributes for this object are:

Attribute Definition
nH The equivalent hydrogen column (in units of 10^22 atoms/cm^2).
metals The abundance relative to solar.
FEabun The iron abundance relative to solar.
FEKedge The Fe K edge energy, in keV.
Redshift The redshift of the absorber.

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

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