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Super-exponential cutoff absorption model
This model is now in the Xspec release and this page is superceded by the Xspec manual
useful for fitting gamma-ray spectra of pulsars (see eg Nel & de Jager 1995).
par1 = Ecut, characteristic energy (keV)
par2 = alpha, exponent index
Caveat : the absorption for an energy bin is calculated as the arithmetic mean of the function value at the start and end energies of the bin. If the energy bins are large this can be inaccurate and the xspec energies command should be used to define a finer energy grid on which to calculate the model.
The source code file required is superExpCutoff.cxx with the parameter information in superExpCutoff_lmodel.dat. This model works with xspec v12 but does not work with v11.