Source models

Warning

This need to be though through and documented.

While we don’t have all the machinery in place to define source models, yet, we do have a fully functional (though rudimentary) configuration file that illustrate how we are planning on implementing complex model with non trivial energy- and time-dependence of the underlying parameters.

The file srcmodel/config/stationary_point_pl.py defines a stationary source with a power-law spectrum and energy- and time-independent polarization degree and angle, but in a way that is suggestive how we’ll go about defining more complex models.

In the mid term, the basic data structures that we envisage to define arbitrary models is something along the lines of

• a xSourceComponent class, encapsulating all the morphological, spectral and polarization properties of a given component;
• a xSource class, containing a list of xSpectralComponents;
• a xSource List class, containing a list of sources (i.e., our models).

(Names might change.)