Reference#

Software and API.

sunkit_spex Package#

`thermal_emission`(energy_edges, temperature, ...)
`continuum_emission`(energy_edges, ...[, ...])
`line_emission`(energy_edges, temperature, ...)	Calculate thermal line emission from the solar corona.
`setup_continuum_parameters`([filename])	Define continuum intensities as a function of temperature.
`setup_line_parameters`([filename])	Define line intensities as a function of temperature for calculating line emission.
`setup_default_abundances`([filename])	Read default abundance values into global variable.

`gauss_legendre`(func, a, b[, n, args, ...])	Compute a definite integral using fixed-order Gaussian quadrature.
`fixed_quad`(func, a, b[, n, args, func_kwargs])	Compute a definite integral using fixed-order Gaussian quadrature.

`load_chianti_lines_lite`()	Read X-ray emission line info from an IDL sav file produced by CHIANTI.
`load_chianti_continuum`()	Read X-ray continuum emission info from an IDL sav file produced by CHIANTI
`read_abundance_genx`(filename)
`load_xray_abundances`([abundance_type])	Returns the abundances written in the xray_abun_file.genx

Functions for computing the photon flux due to bremsstrahlung radiation from energetic electrons impacting a dense plasma. See [1] and [2].

References

`collisional_loss`(electron_energy)	Compute the energy dependant terms of the collisional energy loss rate for energetic electrons.
`_get_integrand`(x_log, *, model, ...[, efd])	Return the value of the integrand for the thick- or thin-target bremsstrahlung models.
`_integrate_part`(*, model, photon_energies, ...)	Perform numerical Gaussian-Legendre Quadrature integration for thick- and thin-target models.
`_split_and_integrate`(*, model, ...[, integrator])	Split and integrate the continuous parts of the electron spectrum.
`bremsstrahlung_thin_target`(photon_energies, ...)	Computes the thin-target bremsstrahlung x-ray/gamma-ray spectrum from an isotropic electron distribution function provided in `broken_powerlaw`.
`bremsstrahlung_thick_target`(photon_energies, ...)	Computes the thick-target bremsstrahlung x-ray/gamma-ray spectrum from an isotropic electron distribution function provided in `broken_powerlaw_f`.

A broken or double power law electron flux distribution and integral.

Class and code to easily switch between astropy constants and values taken directly from SSW for comparision.

Constants(*args, **kwargs)

Centralised constant representation

The io module contains code to read instrument specific spectral data.

`_read_pha`(file)	Read a .pha file and extract useful information from it.
`_read_arf`(file)	Read a .arf file and extract useful information from it.
`_read_rmf`(file)	Read a .rmf file and extract useful information from it.
`_read_rhessi_spec_file`(spec_file)	Read RHESSI spectral fits file and extract useful information from it.
`_read_rhessi_srm_file`(srm_file)	Read RHESSI SRM fits file and extract useful information from it.
`_read_stix_spec_file`(spec_file)	Read STIX spectral fits file and extracts useful information from it.
`_read_stix_srm_file`(srm_file)	Read a STIX SRM spectral fits file and extract useful information from it.

`compute_broken_power_law`(energy_edges, ...)	Analytically evaluate a photon-space broken power law and bin the flux.
`compute_power_law`(energy_edges, norm_energy, ...)	Single power law, defined by setting the break energy to -inf and the lower index to nan.
`integrate_power_law`(energy, norm_energy, ...)	Evaluate the antiderivative of a power law at a given energy or vector of energies.