diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8762400..0e7d004 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -14,12 +14,15 @@ These models calculate the synthetic photon spectrum from a spectral library, ge by using the atomic database package [CHIANTI](https://www.chiantidatabase.org/). The pre-calculated spectra over grid of temperatures is stored in a FITS file. -The isothermal model takes logarithm of the temperature (LogT), abundances (Ax) of the +The isothermal model takes logarithm of the temperature in K (LogT), abundances (Ax) of the elements with Z=2 to Z=30, and the volume emission measure as input parameters. The volume emission measure is implemented as a normalization factor, which is in the units -of 10e46/cm3. For the gaussian DEM model, peak temperature and width of Gaussian (in +of 1046 cm-3. For the gaussian DEM model, peak temperature and width of Gaussian (in log) are input parameters in addition to the abundances. Normalization gives peak -emission measure in units of 10e46/cm3. +emission measure in units of 1046 cm-3. The abundances Ax +are in logarithmic units such that Ax = 12+log10(Nx) where Nx +is abundance of element X relative to Hydrogen. The default abundances are from +'sun_coronal_1992_feldman_ext.abund' file in CHIANTI database. Details of chisoth model and the tabulated spectra used in the model is given in the appendix of [Mondal, Biswajit et al. 2021, ApJ.](https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac14c1)