to get rid of the annoying 10^23 constatn factor

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to get rid of the annoying 10^23 constatn factor #14

Closed sophiathl closed 11 years ago

sophiathl commented 11 years ago

import astropy
import astropy.units as u

# this is to convert the flux denisty from erg / s / cm^2 / Hz (that we have) to Jy, by using astropy.units to define the 10^23 "annoying constant factor" that appears somewhere in the code
SpectralFluxDensity2Jy  = u.Jy.to(u.erg / u.cm**2 / u.s / u.Hz, 1., equivalencies=u.spectral_density)  ** -1

jeffctaylor commented 11 years ago

This has been done.