A Cloudy/Xspec Interface

(2) Dept. of Physics; (3) Laboratory for X-ray Astrophysics; (4) Joint Center for Astrophysics; Astronomy; B. K. Armentrout (2); Catholic University of America; G. J. Ferland (1); K. A. Arnaud (3); NASA GSFC; Physics Department

arxiv: astro-ph/0606032 · v1 · submitted 2006-06-01 · 🌌 astro-ph

A Cloudy/Xspec Interface

R. L. Porter (1) , G. J. Ferland (1) , S. B. Kraemer (2) , B. K. Armentrout (2) , K. A. Arnaud (3) , T. J. Turner (4) ((1) Dept. of Physics , Astronomy , University of Kentucky

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(2) Dept. of Physics Catholic University of America (3) Laboratory for X-ray Astrophysics NASA GSFC (4) Joint Center for Astrophysics Physics Department University of Maryland)

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We discuss new functionality of the spectral simulation code CLOUDY which 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.

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