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[Last Change: 15 Feb 2012 (rev 1)]

flat Spectrum Function

The flat spectrum function generates a flat spectrum with the same flux at each energy. It takes a single argument, a table, with the following recognized named entries:

name type description default
name string name of spectrum instance  
emin number lower bound of energy range in keV  
emax number upper bound of energy range in keV  
flux number Source flux in photon/s/cm2 1

For example 

spectrum = flat{ name = "spec for object 1",
                 emin = 0.1,
                 emax = 10,
                 flux = 10 }
 
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