Last modified: December 2024

URL: https://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/sherpa/ahelp/get_xsabundances.html
AHELP for CIAO 4.17 Sherpa

get_xsabundances

Context: modeling

Synopsis

Return the abundance settings used by X-Spec.

Syntax

get_xsabundances()

Description


Example

>>> get_xsabundances()
{'H': 1.0, 'He': ...}

PARAMETERS

This function has no parameters

Return value

The return value from this function is:

abundances -- The current set of abundances. The keys are the element names (e.g. 'Fe') and the values are the abundances.

Changes in CIAO

Added in CIAO 4.17

XSPEC version

CIAO 4.17 comes with support for version 12.14.0k of the XSPEC models. This can be checked with the following:

% python -c 'from sherpa.astro import xspec;
print(xspec.get_xsversion())'
12.14.0k

Bugs

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

See Also

info
show_xsabund
modeling
get_xsabund, set_xsabundances