Last modified: December 2025

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AHELP for CIAO 4.18 Sherpa

xszedge

Context: models

Synopsis

The XSPEC zedge model: absorption edge.

Syntax

xszedge

The xszedge model is a multiplicative model component.

Description

The model is described at [1] .


Example

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

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

mdl
   Param        Type          Value          Min          Max      Units
   -----        ----          -----          ---          ---      -----
   mdl.edgeE    thawed            7            0          100        keV
   mdl.MaxTau   thawed            1            0           10           
   mdl.Redshift frozen            0       -0.999           10           

ATTRIBUTES

The attributes for this object are:

Attribute Definition
edgeE The threshold edge, in keV.
MaxTau The absorption depth at the threshold.
Redshift The redshift of the edge.

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.

See Also

models
xsedge