Summary of Models



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Summary of Models

atable - Additive table model.

bbody - Blackbody spectrum.

bbodyrad - Blackbody spectrum with norm proportional to surface area.

bknpower - Broken power law.

bremss - Thermal bremsstrahlung.

cflow - Cooling flow model.

compls - Comptonization spectrum after Lamb and Sanford 1979.

compst - Comptonization spectrum after Sunyaev and Titarchuk 1980.

constant - Energy-independent multiplicative factor.

cutoffpl - Power law with high energy exponential cutoff.

cwabs - Photo-electric absorption, including Compton scattering.

cyclabs - Cyclotron absorption line.

disk - Disk model.

diskbb - Multiple blackbody disk model.

diskline - Line emission from relativistic accretion disk.

diskm - Disk model with gas pressure viscosity.

disko - Modified blackbody disk model.

dust - Dust scattering out of the beam.

edge - Absorption edge.

expabs - Low-energy exponential cutoff.

expfac - Exponential factor.

gaussian - Simple gaussian line profile.

highecut - High energy cutoff.

hrefl - Simple reflection model good up to 15 keV.

meka - Mewe-Gronenschild-Kaastra thermal plasma (1992).

mewe - Mewe-Gronenschild thermal plasma (pre-1992).

mkcflw - Cooling flow model based on meka.

mtable - Multiplicative table model.

notch - Notch line absorption.

pcfabs - Partial covering fraction absorption.

pegpwrlw - Power law with pegged normalization.

pliref - Power law illumination of ionized material.

plrefl - Power law illumination of cold material.

powerlaw - Simple photon power law.

raymond - Raymond-Smith thermal plasma.

smedge - Smoothed absorption edge.

spline - Spline multiplicative factor.

SSS_ice - Einstein Observatory SSS ice absorption.

step - Step function convolved with gaussian.

tsabs - Thomson scattering.

useradd1 - The user defined additive model.

usermul1 - User defined multiplicative model.

uvred - UV reddening.

varabs - Photo-electric absorption with variable abundances.

vbremss - Thermal bremsstrahlung spectrum with variable H/He.

vmeka - M-G-K thermal plasma with variable abundances.

vmcflow - Cooling flow model based on vmeka.

vraymond - Raymond-Smith thermal plasma with variable abundances.

wabs - Photo-electric absorption.

wndabs - Photo-electric absorption with low energy window.

zbbody - Redshifted blackbody.

zbremss - Redshifted thermal bremsstrahlung.

zedge - Redshifted absorption edge.

zgauss - Redshifted gaussian.

zhighect - Redshifted high energy cut-off.

zpcfabs - Redshifted partial covering absorption.

zplrefl - Redshifted plrefl model.

zpowerlw - Redshifted power law.

zvarabs - Redshifted photo-electric absorption with variable abundances.

zwabs - Redshifted ``Wisconsin absorption."

zwndabs - Redshifted photo-electric absorption with low energy window.



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Keith Arnaud
Fri Nov 18 16:30:43 EST 1994