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Spectral Properties of AGN Modeled through MCMC
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BalmerContinuum & PseudoContinuum #5

Open jotaylor opened 7 years ago

jotaylor commented 7 years ago

Issue transferred from justincely/spamm: Test/Improve Anthea's implementation of Balmer Continuum/pseudo continuum

Anthea: Edited psuedo-continuum algorithm so that electron density is included properly. There was a typo previously. Also have created a new function for estimating the intensities of 51<n<400 Balmer lines, which estimates the excitation temperature from the Storey & Hummer ratios. The fit is still not great to the fake data, this is partly because I don't know what electron density was used in making the fake data and whether we need to fit for this. My method of estimating the excitation temperature may also be inaccurate, but the reference paper Kovacevic et al 2014 (http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezp.lib.unimelb.edu.au/science/article/pii/S0273117713007382?np=y) was very unclear about this.