RAYSMITH (Feb97)             ftools.heasarc             RAYSMITH (Feb97)



NAME
    RAYSMITH  --  Generates  an  XSPEC  table file for the Raymond-Smith
    plasma emission model
    
    
USAGE
    raysmith  [<filename>  [<tstart>   [<tend>   [<ntsteps>   [<efilenm> 
             [<clobber> ]]]]]]
    
    raysmith       <filename>       [tstart=<tstart>]      [tend=<tend>]     
    [ntsteps=<ntsteps>]          [efilenm=<efilenm>] [clobber=<clobber>]
    
    
    
DESCRIPTION
    RAYSMITH runs the Raymond-Smith plasma emission code and creates  an
    XSPEC  table  file that can be used for fitting to observed spectra.
    The raymond model in XSPEC uses  such  a  file  however  this  ftool
    allows  users of XSPEC to create their own version of the model with
    a different grid of temperatures or different energy binsizes.
    
    The temperature grid calculated is in  <ntsteps>  logarithmic  steps
    from  <tstart>  to  <tend>  (which are specified in keV). The energy
    binsizes are specified in the ascii file <efilenm>. The  first  line
    of  this  file  is the start energy for the bins (in eV). Subsequent
    lines should comprise two numbers, the first is the binsize (in  eV)
    and the second is the number of bins at this binsize.
    
    The  Raymond-Smith  code  uses  files  stored in the XSPEC directory
    tree so XANADU must be installed to run this task.
    
    
PARAMETERS
    
    filename [string]
        The name of the output XSPEC table model file.
    
    tstart [real]
        The first temperature in the grid (in keV).
    
    tend [real]
        The last temperature in the grid (in keV).
    
    ntsteps [int]
        The number of logarithmic steps in the temperature grid.
    
    efilenm [string]
        The name of the ascii file to read to get the energy binsizes.
    
    clobber [bool]
        If clobber = yes then overwrite the output file  if  a  file  of
        this name already exists.
    
    
BUGS