A Cloudy/XSPEC Interface

Authors

R. L. Porter, University of Kentucky
G. J. Ferland, University of Kentucky
S. B. Kraemer, The Catholic University of America
Bryan K. Armentrout, Catholic University of AmericaFollow
K. A. Arnaud, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
T. J. Turner, University of Maryland at Baltimore

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

ISSN

0004-6280

Publication Date

6-2006

Abstract

We discuss new functionality of the spectral simulation code Cloudy that allows the user to calculate grids with one or more initial parameters varied and formats the predicted spectra in the standard FITS format. These files can then be imported into the X-ray spectral analysis software XSPEC and used as theoretical models for observations. We present and verify a test case. Finally, we consider a few observations and discuss our results.

DOI

10.1086/506333

Volume

118

Issue

844

First Page

920

Last Page

923

Comments

©2006. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

NSUWorks Citation

Porter, R. L., Ferland, G. J., Kraemer, S. B., Armentrout, B. K., Arnaud, K. A., & Turner, T. J. (2006). A Cloudy/XSPEC Interface. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 118, (844), 920 - 923. https://doi.org/10.1086/506333. Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cnso_chemphys_facarticles/1