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vmcflow

A cooling flow model after Mushotzky & Szymkowiak (``Cooling Flows in Clusters and Galaxies'' ed. Fabian, 1988). This one uses the vmekal model for the individual temperature components, but is otherwise identical to mkcflow. Abundances are relative to Solar as set by the abund command. The switch parameter determines whether the mekal code will be run to calculate the model spectrum for each temperature or whether the model spectrum will be interpolated from a pre-calculated table. The former is slower but more accurate.

par1 	   = 	low temperature (keV)

par2 = high temperature (keV)

par3-par16 = Abundances for He, C, N, O, Ne, Na, Mg, Al, Si, S,

Ar, Ca, Fe, Ni wrt Solar (defined by the abund command)

par17 = redshift

par18 = 0 tex2html_wrap_inline12669 calculate, 1 tex2html_wrap_inline12669 interpolate

K = Mass accretion rate (solar mass/yr)



Keith Arnaud (kaa@genji.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Wed May 28 10:59:33 EDT 1997