Speaker
Victor Zabalza
(University of Leicester)
Description
The ultimate goal of the observation of nonthermal emission from astrophysical
sources is to understand the underlying particle acceleration and evolution
processes, and few tools are publicly available to infer the particle
distribution properties from the observed photon spectra from X-ray to VHE gamma
rays. Naima is an open source Python package that provides models for
non-thermal radiative emission from homogeneous distribution of relativistic
electrons and protons. Contributions from synchrotron, inverse Compton,
nonthermal bremsstrahlung, and neutral-pion decay can be computed for a series
of functional shapes of the particle energy distributions, with the possibility
of using user-defined particle distribution functions. In addition, Naima
provides a set of functions that allow to use these models to fit observed
nonthermal spectra through an MCMC procedure, obtaining probability distribution
functions for the particle distribution parameters. In this contribution I will
present the models and methods available in Naima and an example of their
application to the understanding of a galactic nonthermal source.
| Registration number following "ICRC2015-I/" | 571 |
|---|---|
| Collaboration | -- not specified -- |
Primary author
Victor Zabalza
(University of Leicester)
