Magpies package documentation

Magpies (Magnetar polarisation, intensity and spectra) Python package to convert magnetic and thermal maps into synthetic X-ray observations. These synthtic observations include the thermal lightcurves for arbitrary orientation of neutron star, spectra and polarisation.

The package requires surface magnetic and thermal maps. In the case of simple dipole configuration the surface thermal map can be created by using the Atmos collection of numerical fits.

Contents:

• Magpies tutorials
  • Simple example for computing spectra and lightcurve
  • Initialising the surface thermal map
    • Using NS atmospheric model
    • Creating isolated hot spots
    • Constracting the surface thermal map
  • Lightcurve produced by two opposite hotspots
  • Fitting X-ray lightcurve with blackbody model
  • Prepare lightcurves for different neutron star orientations
  • Phased-resolved spectroscopy
• Atmos method list
  • __init__()
  • plot_Ts()
  • NS_atmosphere()
  • __init__()
  • Ts()
• Magpies method list
  • xg()
  • g14()
  • compute_L()
  • compute_L_param()
  • compute_Teff()
  • D_factor()
  • single_BB_photons()
  • two_BB_photons()
  • examine_spectral_fit_1BB_photons()
  • examine_spectral_fit_2BB_photons()
  • Cstat_1BB()
  • Cstat_2BB()
  • fit_spectral_model_Cstat()
  • spectra_pole()
  • spectra_any()
  • lightcurve()
  • phase_resolved_spectroscopy()
  • precompute_Dcos_alpha()
  • flux_to_photons()

Code is under development

At the moment code can create thermal X-ray lightcurves, spectra and phase-resolved spectroscopy. The functionality of the code is developped at the moment.

If you found a bug or want to participate in code development you can open issue in the github or contact Dr. Andrei Igoshev ignotur[at]gmail.com

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page