meka, vmeka: emission, hot diffuse gas (Mewe-Gronenschild)

An emission spectrum from hot diffuse gas based on the model calculations of Mewe and Gronenschild (as amended by Kaastra). The model includes line emissions from several elements. Abundances are the number of nuclei per Hydrogen nucleus relative to the Solar abundances set by the abund command.

For the meka model the parameters are:

par1	plasma temperature in keV
par2	H density (cm$^{-3}$
par3	Metal abundances (He fixed at that defined by the abund command). The elements included are C, N, O, Ne, Na, Mg, Al, Si, S, Ar, Ca, Fe, Ni. Relative abundances are set by the abund command.
par4	Redshift, z
norm	${10^{-14}\over{4\pi[D_A(1+z)]^2}}\int n_en_HdV$, where $D_A$ is the angular diameter distance to the source (cm), $dV$ is the volume element (cm$^3$), and $n_e$ and $n_H$ are the electron and H densities (cm$^{-3}$), respectively

For the vmeka variant the parameters are as follows.

par1	plasma temperature in keV
par2	H density (cm$^{-3}$
par3–par14	Abundances for He, C, N, O, Ne, Mg, Si, S, Ar, Ca, Fe, Ni wrt Solar (defined by the abund command).
par15	redshift, z
norm	${10^{-14}\over{4\pi[D_A(1+z)]^2}}\int n_en_HdV$, where $D_A$ is the angular diameter distance to the source (cm), $dV$ is the volume element (cm$^3$), and $n_e$ and $n_H$ are the electron and H densities (cm$^{-3}$), respectively

The references for the meka model are as follows :
Mewe, Gronenschild & van den Oord (1985)
Mewe, Lemen, & van den Oord (1986)
Kaastra, J.S. 1992, An X-Ray Spectral Code for Optically Thin Plasmas (Internal SRON-Leiden Report, updated version 2.0)

Similar credit may also be given for the adopted ionization balance:
Arnaud & Rothenflug (1985)
Arnaud & Raymond (1992)

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