A circular plane-parallel source.
This source emits all photons in the same direction perpendicular to the plane of the source, and in one direction, like a beam.
Parameters : | name : str, optional
peeloff : bool, optional
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Notes
Any additional arguments are are used to initialize attributes.
Attributes
luminosity | The bolometric luminosity of the source (ergs/s) |
temperature | The temperature of the source (K) |
spectrum | The spectrum of the source, specified either as an astropy.table.Table |
position | The cartesian position of the source (x, y, z) as a sequence of three floating-point values (cm) |
radius | The radius of the source (cm) |
direction | The direction the photons should be emitted in (theta, phi) where theta and phi are spherical polar angles (rad) |