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Additive Model Components
This and the following sections contain information on specific, installed XSPEC models. The parameters are given as par1, par2, ..., and norm, which is the normalization. Additive models represent sources of emission.
Subsections
- agauss, zagauss: gaussian line profile in wavelength space
- agnsed, qsosed: AGN SED model
- agnslim, AGN super-Eddington accretion model
- apec, vapec, vvapec, bapec, bvapec, bvvapec: APEC emission spectrum
- atable: tabulated additive model
- bbody, zbbody: blackbody
- bbodyrad: blackbody spectrum, area normalized
- bexrav: reflected e-folded broken power law, neutral medium
- bexriv: reflected e-folded broken power law, ionized medium
- bkn2pow: broken power law, 2 break energies
- bknpower, zbknpower: broken power law
- bmc: Comptonization by relativistic matter
- bremss, vbremss, zbremss: thermal bremsstrahlung
- btapec, bvtapec, bvvtapec: velocity broadened APEC emission spectrum with separate continuum and line temperatures
- bwcycl: Becker-Wolff self-consistent cyclotron line model
- c6mekl, c6vmekl, c6pmekl, c6pvmkl: differential emission measure using Chebyshev representations with multi-temperature mekal
- carbatm: Nonmagnetic carbon atmosphere of a neutron star
- cemekl, cevmkl: plasma emission, multi-temperature using mekal
- cempow, vcempow, bcempow, bvcempow: plasma emission, multi-temperature using a power-law emission measure
- cflow: cooling flow
- cheb6, vcheb6, bcheb6, bvcheb6: differential emission measure using 6-order Chebyshev polynomial
- cie, vcie, vvcie, bcie, bvcie, bbvcie: Emission spectrum from a plasma in Collisional-ionization equilibrium
- compbb: Comptonization, black body
- compLS: Comptonization, Lamb & Sanford
- compmag: Thermal and bulk Comptonization for cylindrical accretion onto the polar cap of a magnetized neutron star
- compPS: Comptonization, Poutanen & Svensson
- compST: Comptonization, Sunyaev & Titarchuk
- comptb: Thermal and bulk Comptonization of a seed blackbody-like spectrum
- compTT: Comptonization, Titarchuk
- coolflow, vcoolflow, bcoolflow, bvcoolflow: cooling flow, mekal
- cph, vcph, bcph, bvcph: Cooling + heating model for cool core clusters
- cplinear: a non-physical piecewise-linear model for low count background spectra.
- cutoffpl, zcutoffpl: power law, high energy exponential cutoff
- disk: accretion disk, black body
- diskbb: accretion disk, multi-black body components
- diskir: Irradiated inner and outer disk
- diskline: accretion disk line emission, relativistic
- diskm: accretion disk with gas pressure viscosity
- disko: accretion disk, inner, radiation pressure viscosity
- diskpbb: accretion disk, power-law dependence for T(r)
- diskpn: accretion disk, black hole, black body
- eebremss: electron-electron bremsstrahlung spectrum
- eplogpar: log-parabolic blazar model with
F
normalization
- Eqpair, eqtherm, compth: Paolo Coppi's hybrid (thermal/non-thermal) hot plasma emission models.
- equil, vequil, bequil, bvequil: collisional plasma, ionization equilibrium
- expcheb6, vexpcheb6, bexpcheb6, bvexpcheb6: differential emission measure using exponential of a 6-order Chebyshev polynomial
- expdec: exponential decay
- ezdiskbb: multiple blackbody disk model with zero-torque inner boundary
- fekblor, zfekblor, bfekblor, zbfekblor: Fe K
line at high resolution
- feklor, zfeklor, bfeklor, zbfeklor: Fe K
line at high resolution
- gadem, vgadem, vvgadem, bgadem, bvgadem, bvvgadem: plasma emission, multi-temperature with gaussian distribution of emission measure.
- gauss, zgauss: gaussian line profile
- gnei, vgnei, vvgnei, bgnei, bvgnei, bvvgnei: collisional plasma, non-equilibrium, temperature evolution
- grad: accretion disk, Schwarzschild black hole
- grbcomp: Comptonization for GRB prompt emission
- grbjet: Two-phase Comptonization model of soft thermal seed photons for GRB prompt emission
- grbm: gamma-ray burst continuum
- hatm: Nonmagnetic hydrogen atmosphere of a neutron star
- jet: Leptonic relativistic jet model
- kerrbb, zkerrbb: multi-temperature blackbody model for thin accretion disk around a Kerr black hole
- kerrd: optically thick accretion disk around a Kerr black hole
- kerrdisk: accretion disk line emission with BH spin as free parameter
- kyrline: relativistic line from axisymmetric accretion disk
- laor: accretion disk, black hole emission line
- laor2: accretion disk with broken-power law emissivity profile, black hole emission line
- logpar, zlogpar: log-parabolic blazar model
- lorentz, zlorentz: lorentz line profile
- meka, vmeka: emission, hot diffuse gas (Mewe-Gronenschild)
- mekal, vmekal: emission, hot diffuse gas (Mewe-Gronenschild-Kaastra)
- mkcflow, vmcflow: cooling flow, mekal
- nei, vnei, vvnei, bnei, bvnei, bvvnei: collisional plasma, non-equilibrium, constant temperature
- nlapec: continuum-only APEC emission spectrum
- npshock, vnpshock, vvnpshock, bnpshock, bvnpshock, bvvnpshock: shocked plasma, plane parallel, separate ion, electron temperatures
- nsa: neutron star atmosphere
- nsagrav: NS H atmosphere model for different g
- nsatmos: NS Hydrogen Atmosphere model with electron conduction and self-irradiation
- nsmax: Neutron Star Magnetic Atmosphere
- nsmaxg: Neutron Star with a Magnetic Atmosphere
- nsx: neutron star with a non-magnetic atmosphere
- nteea: non-thermal pair plasma
- Nthcomp: Thermally comptonized continuum
- Optxagnf, optxagn: Colour temperature corrected disc and energetically coupled Comptonisation model for AGN.
- pegpwrlw: power law, pegged normalization
- pexmon: neutral Compton reflection with self-consistent Fe and Ni lines.
- pexrav: reflected powerlaw, neutral medium
- pexriv: reflected powerlaw, ionized medium
- plcabs: powerlaw observed through dense, cold matter
- polconst: Constant polarization
- pollin: Linearly dependent polarization
- polpow: Power-law dependent polarization
- posm: positronium continuum
- powerlaw, zpowerlw: power law photon spectrum
- pshock, vpshock, vvpshock, bpshock, bvpshock, bvvpshock: plane-parallel shocked plasma, constant temperature
- raymond, vraymond: emission, hot diffuse gas, Raymond-Smith
- redge: emission, recombination edge
- refsch: reflected power law from ionized accretion disk
- relline, relline_lp, relline_lp_ext: relativistic accretion disk line emission with different geometries
- rnei, vrnei, vvrnei, brnei, bvrnei, bvvrnei: non-equilibrium recombining collisional plasma
- rsapec, rsvapec, rsvvapec: APEC emission spectrum with resonance scattering
- rsgauss: gaussian line profile with resonance scattering
- rsrnei, rsvrnei, rsvvrnei: Non-equilibrium recombining collisional plasma with resonance scattering
- sedov, vsedov, vvsedov, bsedov, bvsedov, bvvsedov: sedov model, separate ion, electron temperatures
- sirf: self-irradiated funnel
- slimbh: Stationary slim accretion disk
- smaug: optically-thin, spherically-symmetric thermal plasma.
- snapec, bsnapec: galaxy cluster spectrum using SN yields
- srcut: synchrotron spectrum, cutoff power law
- sresc: synchrotron spectrum, cut off by particle escape
- ssa: Strangeon star atmosphere
- sssed: Shakura & Sunyaev spectral energy distribution
- step: step function convolved with gaussian
- tapec, vtapec, vvtapec: APEC emission spectrum with separate continuum and line temperatures
- wdem, vwdem, vvwdem, bwdem, bwwdem, bvvwdem: plasma emission, multi-temperature with power-law distribution of emission measure.
- vagauss, zvagauss: gaussian line profile in wavelength space with sigma in velocity
- vgauss, zvgauss: gaussian line profile with sigma in velocity
- vlorentz, zvlorentz: lorentz line profile with width in velocity
- voigt, zvoigt: Voigt line profile
- vvoigt, zvvoigt: Voigt line profile with widths in km/s