zblz / naima

Derivation of non-thermal particle distributions through MCMC spectral fitting
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making naima time-dependent (for AGN) #143

Closed cosimoNigro closed 6 years ago

cosimoNigro commented 7 years ago

Dear Victor and dear developers,

first of all many thanks for developing such a wonderful tool! Reproducibility of results is not a concern of astrophysics modeling papers and your effort to develop an open-source library for radiative-processes is amazing. I have devoted time to create a time-dependent SSC model using your packages
https://github.com/cosimoNigro/blazar_model My main reference is https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9810263, one of the few papers in which details about the numerical calculations are provided. The code is not perfect and contains for sure a lot of bugs. Nonetheless I would like to ask you to check it out. If you are interested I would be happy to integrate my code in naima and to keep working on its time-dependent extension. I think it's an ambitious goal, it would be great to work on it with your support! I am not a theoretician myself but I am in gamma-ray astronomy and I can devote time to this since it is part of my PhD topic.

Thanks!