Table 6.1:
Summary of Models
| Model |
Description |
| absori |
Ionized absorber. |
| acisabs |
Extra absorption due to contamination on the ACIS filters. |
| agauss, zagauss |
Gaussian line profile in wavelength space. |
| ascac |
ASCA PSF mixing model. |
| apec, vapec, vvapec |
APEC thermal plasma model. |
| atable |
Additive table model. |
| bapec, bvapec, bvvapec |
Velocity
broadened APEC thermal plasma model. |
| bbody, zbbody |
Blackbody spectrum, with redshift variant |
| bbodyrad |
Blackbody spectrum with norm proportional to surface area. |
| bexrav |
E-folded broken power-law reflected from neutral matter |
| bexriv |
E-folded broken power-law reflected from ionized matter |
| bknpower |
Broken powerlaw. |
| bkn2pow |
Three-segment broken powerlaw. |
| bmc |
Comptonization by relativistically moving matter. |
| bremss, vbremss, zbremss |
Thermal
bremsstrahlung, with redshift variant. |
| btapec, bvtapec, bvvtapec |
Broadened APEC emission
spectrum with separate continuum and line temperatures. |
| c6mekl, c6pmekl, c6vmekl,
c6pvmkl |
6th-order Chebyshev polynomial DEM using mekal and variants |
| cabs |
Compton scattering (non-relativistic) |
| carbatm |
Nonmagnetic carbon atmosphere of a neutron star |
| cemekl, cevmkl |
Multi-temperature mekal. |
| cflow |
Cooling flow model. |
| cflux |
Calculate flux of other model components. |
| clumin |
Calculate luminosityof other model components. |
| compbb |
Comptonized blackbody spectrum after Nishimura et al. 1986. |
| compLS |
Comptonization spectrum after Lamb and Sanford 1979. |
| compmag |
Thermal and bulk Comptonization for cylindrical accretion
onto the polar cap of a magnetized neutron star. |
| compPS |
Comptonization spectrum after Poutanen and Svenson 1986. |
| compST |
Comptonization spectrum after Sunyaev and Titarchuk 1980. |
| comptb |
Thermal and bulk Comptonization of a seed blackbody-like
spectrum. |
| compTT |
Comptonization spectrum after Titarchuk 1994. |
| constant |
Energy-independent multiplicative factor. |
| cpflux |
Convolution model to calculate photon flux. |
| cplinear |
Non-physical model for low count background spectra. |
| cutoffpl |
Powerlaw with high energy exponential rolloff. |
| cyclabs |
Cyclotron absorption line. |
| disk |
Disk model. |
| diskbb |
Multiple blackbody disk model. |
| diskir |
Irradiated inner and outer disk. |
| diskline |
Line emission from relativistic accretion disk. |
| diskm |
Disk model with gas pressure viscosity. |
| disko |
Modified blackbody disk model. |
| diskpbb |
Accretion disk with power-law T(r) |
| diskpn |
Accretion disk around a black hole. |
| dust |
Dust scattering out of the beam. |
| edge, zedge |
Absorption edge. |
| eplogpar |
Log-parabolic blazar model with vFv normalization. |
| eqpair, eqtherm, compth |
Paolo Coppi's
hybrid hot plasma emission models. |
| equil, vequil |
Equilibrium ionization collisional
plasma model from Borkowski. |
| etable |
Table model for exponential of -1 times the input. |
| expabs |
Low-energy exponential rolloff. |
| expdec |
Exponential decay |
| expfac |
Exponential factor. |
| ezdiskbb |
Multiple blackbody disk model with zero-torque inner
boundary. |
| gabs |
Gaussian absorption line. |
| gadem, vgadem |
Plasma emission, multi-temperature
with gaussian distribution of emission measure. |
| gauss, zgauss |
Simple gaussian line profile. |
| gnei, vgnei |
Generalized single ionization NEI plasma model. |
| grad |
GR accretion disk around a black hole. |
| grbm |
Gamma-ray burst model. |
| gsmooth |
Gaussian smoothing with an energy dependent
sigma. |
| hatm |
Nonmagnetic hydrogen atmosphere of a neutron star. |
| heilin |
Voigt absorption profiles for He I series. |
| highecut, zhighect |
High energy cutoff. |
| hrefl |
Simple reflection model good up to 15 keV. |
| ireflect |
Reflection from ionized material. |
| ismabs |
High resolution ISM absorption model. |
| kdblur |
Convolve with the Laor model shape. |
| kdblur2 |
Convolve with the Laor2 model shape. |
| kerrbb |
Multi-temperature blackbody model for thin accretion disk
around a Kerr black hole. |
| kerrconv |
Accretion disk line shape with BH spin as free parameter. |
| kerrd |
Optically thick accretion disk around a Kerr black hole. |
| kerrdisk |
Accretion disk line emission with BH spin as free
parameter. |
| laor |
Line from accretion disk around a black hole. |
| laor2 |
Line from accretion disk with broken power-law emissivity
around a black hole. |
| logpar |
Log-parabolic blazar model. |
| lorentz |
Lorentzian line profile. |
| lsmooth |
Lorentzian smoothing with an energy dependent sigma. |
| lyman |
Voigt absorption profiles for H I or He II Lyman series. |
| meka, vmeka |
Mewe-Gronenschild-Kaastra thermal plasma (1992). |
| mekal, vmekal |
Mewe-Kaastra-Liedahl thermal plasma (1995). |
| mkcflow, vmcflow |
Cooling flow model based on mekal. |
| mtable |
Multiplicative table model. |
| nei, vnei |
Simple nonequilibrium ionization plasma model. |
| nlapec |
Continuum-only APEC emission spectrum. |
| notch |
Notch line absorption. |
| npshock, vnpshock |
Plane-parallel shock with ion and electron
temperatures. |
| nsa |
Neutron star with hydrogen atmosphere |
| nsagrav |
Neutron star with hydrogen atmosphere for different g. |
| nsatmos |
Neutron star H atmosphere with e- 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 |
Pair plasma model. |
| nthcomp |
Thermally comptonized continuum. |
| optxagnf, optxagn |
Colour temperature corrected disc and
energetically coupled Comptonisation model for AGN. |
| partcov |
Convert absorption model into a partial covering
absorption. |
| pcfabs, zpcfabs |
Partial covering fraction absorption. |
| pegpwrlw |
Powerlaw with pegged normalization. |
| pexmon |
Neutral Compton reflection with self-consistent Fe and Ni
lines. |
| pexrav |
Exponentially cut-off power-law reflected from neutral
matter. |
| pexriv |
Exponentially cut-off power-law reflected from ionized
matter. |
| phabs, vphabs, zphabs, zvphabs |
Photo-electric absorption |
| pileup |
CCD pile-up model for Chandra |
| plabs |
Absorption model with power-law dependence on energy. |
| plcabs |
Cut-off powerlaw observed through dense, cold matter. |
| posm |
Positronium continuum. |
| powerlaw, zpowerlw |
Simple photon power law. |
| projct |
3-D to 2-D projection mixing model. |
| pshock, vpshock |
Constant temperature, plane-parallel shock plasma
model. |
| pwab |
Power-law distribution of neutral absorbers. |
| raymond, vraymond |
Raymond-Smith thermal plasma. |
| rdblur |
Convolve with the diskline model shape. |
| recorn |
Change correction norm for a spectrum (replaces old recornrm
command). |
| redden |
IR/optical/UV extinction from Cardelli et al. (1989) |
| redge |
Recombination edge. |
| reflect |
reflection from neutral matter |
| refsch |
E-folded power-law reflected from an ionized relativistic
disk. |
| rfxconv |
angle-dependent reflection from an ionized disk |
| rnei, vrnei, vvrnei |
Non-equilibrium recombining collisional plasma. |
| sedov, vsedov |
Sedov model with electron and ion temperatures. |
| sirf |
Multi-blackbody self-irradiated funnel model. |
| simpl |
Comptonization of a seed spectrum. |
| slimbh |
Stationary slim accretion disk. |
| smaug |
Model for an optically-thin, spherically-symmetric thermal
plasma. |
| smedge |
Smoothed absorption edge. |
| snapec |
Galaxy cluster spectrum using SN yields. |
| spexpcut |
Super-exponential cutoff absorption. |
| spline |
Spline multiplicative factor. |
| srcut |
Synchrotron radiation from cut-off electron distribution. |
| sresc |
Synchrotron radiation from escape-limited electron
distribution. |
| SSSice |
Einstein Observatory SSS ice absorption. |
| step |
Step function convolved with gaussian. |
| suzpsf |
Suzaku PSF mixing model. |
| swind1 |
Absorption by partially ionized material with large velocity
shear. |
| tapec, vtapec, vvtapec |
APEC emission
spectrum with separate continuum and line temperatures. |
| tbabs, ztbabs, tbgrain,
tbvarabs |
Absorption due to the ISM including molecules and grains. |
| uvred |
UV reddening. |
| varabs, zvarabs |
Photoelectric absorption with variable abundances. |
| vashift |
Velocity shifts an additive model. |
| vmshift |
Velocity shifts a multiplicative model. |
| voigt |
A simple Voigt line profile. |
| wabs, zwabs |
Photoelectric absorption (Morrison & McCammon). |
| wndabs, zwndabs |
Photoelectric absorption with low energy window. |
| xion |
The reflected spectrum from a photo-ionized accretion disk. |
| xilconv |
angle-dependent reflection from an ionized disk |
| xmmpsf |
XMM PSF model |
| xscat |
dust scattering |
| zashift |
Redshift an additive model. |
| zbabs |
EUV ISM attenuation. |
| zdust |
Extinction by dust grains (Pei, 1992). |
| zigm |
UV/Optical attenuation by the intergalactic medium. |
| zmshift |
Redshift a multiplicative model. |
| zredden |
Redshifted IR/optical/UV extinction from Cardelli et
al. (1989) |
| zsmdust |
Extinction by dust grains in starburst galaxies. |
| zvfeabs |
Redshifted absorption with variable iron abundance. |
| zxipcf |
Partial covering absorption by partially ionized material. |
