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URL: http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao3.4/xsnteea.html
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AHELP for CIAO 3.4 xsnteea Context: sherpa

Synopsis

Pair plasma model. XSpec model.

Description

A nonthermal pair plasma model based on that of Lightman and Zdziarski (1987, ApJ 319, 643) from Magdziarz and Zdziarski. It includes angle-dependent reflection from Magdziarz and Zdziarski (1995, MNRAS 273, 837). The abundances are set up by the xspecabundan command.

xsnteea Parameters

Number Name Description
1 lnth nonthermal electron compactness
2 lbb blackbody compactness
3 frefl scaling factor for reflection; 1 = isotropic source above disk
4 kTbb blackbody temperature in eV
5 gmax the maximum Lorentz factor
6 lth thermal compactness; 0 = pure nonthermal plasma
7 taup Thomson optical depth of ionization electrons (e.g. 0)
8 Ginj electron injection index; 0 = monoenergetic injection
9 gmin minimum Lorentz factor of the power law injection; not used for monoenergetic injection
10 g0 minimum Lorentz factor for nonthermal reprocessing; 1 < g0 <= gmin
11 radius radius in cm (for Coulomb/bremsstrahlung only)
12 pairesc pair escape rate in c; 0 <= paires <= 1, see Zdziarski 1985, ApJ, 289, 514
13 cosIncl cosine of inclination angle
14 FeAbund iron abundance relative to that defined by xspecabundan
15 Redshift redshift, z
16 norm photon flux of the direct component without reflection at 1 keV in the observer's frame.

This information is taken from the XSpec User's Guide. Version 11.3.1 of the XSpec models is supplied with CIAO 3.2.

Bugs

For a list of known bugs and issues with the XSPEC models, please visit the XSPEC bugs page.

See Also

sherpa
atten, bbody, bbodyfreq, beta1d, beta2d, box1d, box2d, bpl1d, const1d, const2d, cos, delta1d, delta2d, dered, devaucouleurs, edge, erf, erfc, farf, farf2d, fpsf, fpsf1d, frmf, gauss1d, gauss2d, gridmodel, hubble, jdpileup, linebroad, lorentz1d, lorentz2d, models, nbeta, ngauss1d, poisson, polynom1d, polynom2d, powlaw1d, ptsrc1d, ptsrc2d, rsp, rsp2d, schechter, shexp, shexp10, shlog10, shloge, sin, sqrt, stephi1d, steplo1d, tan, tpsf, tpsf1d, usermodel, xs, xsabsori, xsacisabs, xsapec, xsbapec, xsbbody, xsbbodyrad, xsbexrav, xsbexriv, xsbknpower, xsbmc, xsbremss, xsbvapec, xsc6mekl, xsc6pmekl, xsc6pvmkl, xsc6vmekl, xscabs, xscemekl, xscevmkl, xscflow, xscompbb, xscompls, xscompst, xscomptt, xsconstant, xscutoffpl, xscyclabs, xsdisk, xsdiskbb, xsdiskline, xsdiskm, xsdisko, xsdiskpn, xsdust, xsedge, xsequil, xsexpabs, xsexpdec, xsexpfac, xsgabs, xsgaussian, xsgnei, xsgrad, xsgrbm, xshighecut, xshrefl, xslaor, xslorentz, xsmeka, xsmekal, xsmkcflow, xsnei, xsnotch, xsnpshock, xsnsa, xspcfabs, xspegpwrlw, xspexrav, xspexriv, xsphabs, xsplabs, xsplcabs, xsposm, xspowerlaw, xspshock, xspwab, xsraymond, xsredden, xsredge, xsrefsch, xssedov, xssmedge, xsspline, xssrcut, xssresc, xssssice, xsstep, xstbabs, xstbgrain, xstbvarabs, xsuvred, xsvapec, xsvarabs, xsvbremss, xsvequil, xsvgnei, xsvmcflow, xsvmeka, xsvmekal, xsvnei, xsvnpshock, xsvphabs, xsvpshock, xsvraymond, xsvsedov, xswabs, xswndabs, xsxion, xszbbody, xszbremss, xszedge, xszgauss, xszhighect, xszpcfabs, xszphabs, xszpowerlw, xsztbabs, xszvarabs, xszvfeabs, xszvphabs, xszwabs, xszwndabs
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usermodel
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