Nonthermal Spectral Models for ISIS

 

This module provides spectral models for synchrotron radiation, inverse Compton scattering, nonthermal bremsstrahlung and neutral-pion decay produced by a homogeneous emitting region. The underlying momentum distribution of relativistic particles may be user-defined or may be chosen from a number of simple analytic particle distribution functions provided by the module.

The module also provides functions to compute additional useful quantities including the number density and energy density of relativistic particles.

Documentation

The users' manual is available in several formats:

Physical assumptions and computational details are discussed in Houck and Allen (2006).

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The nonthermal module source code is available here.

To install and use it, the following packages must be available on your system:


This page is maintained by John C. Houck.   Last updated: May 7, 2013
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