More models for XSPEC

The following models have been publically released by their authors but were not included in the standard release. Those that are table models can simply be downloaded and used in XSPEC using the atable or mtable commands. Other models can be installed as local models.

If you have models that you would like to make available to a wider public please contact Keith Arnaud (Keith.A.Arnaud-at-nasa.gov). This page was last updated on Sep 4th, 2008.

Local models

Super-exponential cutoff absorption model : spexpcut.
Model added 9/4/08.
Irradiation of the inner and outer disc : diskir.
Model added 8/28/08.
A model to estimate fluxes and errors : cflux.
Model added 8/21/08.
Neutron star magnetic atmosphere model : nsmax.
Model added 2/9/08. Updated on 4/11/08 to include four additional magnetic field strengths.
Partial covering of partially ionised absorbing material : zxipcf.
Model added 1/11/08.
Partially ionised absorbing material with large velocity shear : swind1.
Model added 10/30/06. Updated 7/19/07 to modify the limits on the column parameter.
Model by Brenneman and Reynolds for a broad iron line from an accretion disk around a spinning black hole : kerrdisk, kerrconv.
Model added 10/5/06.
Thermally comptonized continuum model from Zycki et al. 1999 : nthcomp.
Model added 4/25/06.
Photoionization models from Ali Kinkhabwala produced as part of a PhD thesis at Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory : photoion, phai, phxi, miabs, siabs, xiabs, neutral, vneutral, addext, mulext, tauext.
Model added 4/7/06. Updated 11/7/06 to include some input data files that were accidentally left out of the tar file.
Absorption due to gas in coronal equilibrium : hotabs.
Model added 12/2/05. Updated on 02/29/08. Updated on 08/25/08.
XSTAR warm absorber model : warmabs.
Model added 07/27/05. Updated on 02/29/08. Updated on 08/25/08.
KY models from Dovciak et al. for accretion disk spectra in the strong gravity regime : kyrline, kyr1line, kyr2line, kyh1refl, kyconv, kyc1onv, kyl1cr, kyf1ll, kyBBphen, kyB1Bphe.
Model added 07/18/05.
Beckwith and Done's line profiles from a Keplerian disk around a black hole : kdline0, kdconv0, kdline1, kdconv1.
Model added 05/12/05.
Paolo Coppi's hybrid (thermal/non-thermal) hot plasma emission model : eqpair.
Link added 3/3/03.

Table models

Resonant cyclotron scattering in a neutron star magnetosphere
Model added 4/25/08.
Spectrum from "slim disk" accretion based on calculations by Kawaguchi
Model added 10/2/06.
A python script to extract spectra from SPEX in a form that can be used by xspec
Model added 7/10/06.
Spectrum of a relativistic accretion disk around a spinning black hole.
Model added 2/9/06.
Shimura and Takahara accretion disk model
Model added 02/09/05.
Reflion - reflection by a constant density illuminated atmosphere
Model added 01/25/05.
Neutron star atmosphere models from Gaensicke, Braje & Romani
New models added 4/15/02 (updated 6/7/02).
Constant density ionised disc models
New models added 7/25/01 (updated 9/16/04).

Older local models now included as standard in the current release

Multi-temperature disk blackbody with power-law dependence of temperature on radius : diskpbb.
Model added 2/14/06. Included in v12.3.0. Updated on 10/26/06 to fix a small error in the normalization.
Rybicki-Narayan model for a NS H atmosphere including electron conduction and self-irradiation : nsatmos.
Model added 2/13/06. Included in v12.3.0.
Dust extinction models for the UV/opt/IR : zdust, zsmdust.
Model added 09/21/05. Included in v12.2.1.
NS atmosphere spectra from Zavlin & Pavlov for non-magnetic hydrogen atmospheres with surface gravitational acceleration between 1e13 and 1e15 cm/s^2 : nsagrav.
Model added 10/07/05. Included in v12.2.1.

Keith Arnaud, Exploration of the Universe Division, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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