sherpa_flux_dist

Description

The sherpa_flux_dist module provides routines for creating and plotting flux distributions of Sherpa models, that is the distribution of flux values that accounts for uncertainties in the model parameter values. It is provided as part of the CIAO contributed scripts package.

Loading the routines

The module can be loaded into Sherpa by saying either of:

require ("sherpa_flux_dist");
require ("sherpa_contrib");

where the second form loads in all the Sherpa contributed routines, not just the flux_dist module.

Contents

The module currenly provides the following routines:

• plot_photon_flux() - plot the photon flux distribution
• sample_photon_flux() - sample from the photon flux distribution
• plot_energy_flux() - plot the energy flux distribution
• sample_energy_flux() - sample from the energy flux distribution
• write_arrays() - write out arrays to an ASCII file

See the ahelp file for the routine and the contributed scripts page for further information.