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Derivation of non-thermal particle distributions through MCMC spectral fitting
http://naima.readthedocs.io
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Inverse Compton Scattering on Anisotropic Photon field #223

Closed Lalenthra closed 1 year ago

Lalenthra commented 1 year ago

Dear zblz

I am trying to model a gamma-ray binary system but am having trouble using InverseCompton on an anisotropic field. I want to use a 'star' seed_photon_field as in the example docs, but I am running into a wall with this since it is not in the list of seed photon fields. I get an error with the message "Will not use seed star because it is not CMB, FIR or NIR." Do you have any advice on this? I really appreciate any help you can provide.

Kind regards Lalenthra

zblz commented 1 year ago

Hi Lalenthra,

That message will only be returned when the seed photon field passed is a single string. If you are providing a single photon field, your seed_photon_fields should be a list with a single list item containing the four parameters for the anisotropic source field. If the above suggestion does not solve your probelm, can you post a minimal, reproducible example?

Lalenthra commented 1 year ago

Yes, that solved it. Thank you very much!