Last modified: December 2023

URL: https://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/sherpa/ahelp/xsgaussian.html
AHELP for CIAO 4.16 Sherpa

xsgaussian

Context: models

Synopsis

The XSPEC gaussian model: gaussian line profile.

Syntax

xsgaussian

The xsgaussian model is an additive model component.

Description

The model is described at [1] .


Example

>>> create_model_component("xsgaussian", "mdl")
>>> print(mdl)

Create a component of the xsgaussian model and display its default parameters. The output is:

mdl
   Param        Type          Value          Min          Max      Units
   -----        ----          -----          ---          ---      -----
   mdl.LineE    thawed          6.5            0        1e+06        keV
   mdl.Sigma    thawed          0.1            0           20        keV
   mdl.norm     thawed            1            0        1e+24           

ATTRIBUTES

The attributes for this object are:

Attribute Definition
LineE The line energy, in keV.
Sigma The line width, in keV. A value of zero means a delta function.
norm The flux in the line, in units of photon/cm^2/s.

References

XSPEC version

CIAO 4.16 comes with support for version 12.13.1e of the XSPEC models. This can be checked with the following:

% python -c 'from sherpa.astro import xspec;
print(xspec.get_xsversion())'
12.13.1e

Bugs

See the bugs pages on the Sherpa website for an up-to-date listing of known bugs.

See Also

models
xsagauss, xslorentz, xszagauss, xszgauss