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compLS: Comptonization, Lamb & Sanford
A Comptonization spectrum after Lamb & Sanford (1979, MNRAS 288, 555). This model calculates the self-Comptonization of a bremsstrahlung emission from an optically thick spherical plasma cloud with a given optical depth and temperature. It was popular for Sco X-1.
| par1 | temperature in keV |
| par2 | optical depth |
| norm | normalization #40761#> |