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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
- apec, vapec, vvapec: APEC emission spectrum
- atable: tabulated additive model
- bapec, bvapec, bvvapec: velocity broadened APEC thermal
plasma 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
- bknpower: broken power law
- bkn2pow: broken power law, 2 break energies
- bmc: Comptonization by relativistic matter
- bremss, vbremss, zbremss: thermal bremsstrahlung
- brnei, bvrnei, bvvrnei: velocity-broadened non-equilibrium recombining
collisional plasma
- btapec, bvtapec, bvvtapec: velocity broadened APEC
emission spectrum with separate continuum and line temperatures
- 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
- cflow: cooling flow
- 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 & Svenson
- compST: Comptonization, Sunyaev &
Titarchuk
- comptb: Thermal and bulk Comptonization of a seed blackbody-like spectrum
- compTT: Comptonization, Titarchuk
- 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
- eplogpar: log-parabolic blazar model with
F
normalization
- Eqpair, eqtherm, compth: Paolo Coppi's hybrid (thermal/non-thermal) hot plasma emission models.
- equil, vequil: collisional plasma, ionization equilibrium
- expdec: exponential decay
- ezdiskbb: multiple blackbody disk model with zero-torque
inner boundary
- gadem, vgadem: plasma emission, multi-temperature with
gaussian distribution of emission
measure.
- gauss, zgauss: gaussian line profile
- gnei, vgnei, vvgnei: collisional plasma, non-equilibrium, temperature evolution
- grad: accretion disk, Schwarzschild black hole
- grbcomp: Comptonization for GRB prompt emission
- grbm: gamma-ray burst continuum
- hatm: Nonmagnetic hydrogen atmosphere of a neutron star
- jet: Leptonic relativistic jet model
- kerrbb: 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
- laor: accretion disk, black hole emission line
- laor2: accretion disk with broken-power law emissivity profile, black hole emission line
- logpar: log-parabolic blazar model
- lorentz: 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: collisional plasma, non-equilibrium,
constant temperature
- nlapec: continuum-only APEC emission spectrum
- npshock, vnpshock, vvnpshock: 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
- posm: positronium continuum
- powerlaw, zpowerlw: power law photon spectrum
- pshock, vpshock, vvpshock: 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
- rnei, vrnei, vvrnei: non-equilibrium recombining
collisional plasma
- sedov, vsedov, vvsedov: sedov model, separate ion, electron
temperatures
- sirf: self-irradiated funnel
- slimbh: Stationary slim accretion disk
- smaug: optically-thin, spherically-symmetric thermal plasma.
- snapec: galaxy cluster spectrum using SN yields
- srcut: synchrotron spectrum, cutoff power law
- sresc: synchrotron spectrum, cut off by particle escape
- ssa: Strangeon star atmosphere
- step: step function convolved with gaussian
- tapec, vtapec, vvtapec: APEC emission spectrum with
separate continuum and line temperatures
- voigt: Voigt line profile