darkhistory.electrons.ics.ics_spectrum.thomson_spec

darkhistory.electrons.ics.ics_spectrum.thomson_spec(eleckineng, photeng, T, as_pairs=False)

Thomson ICS spectrum of secondary photons.

Switches between thomson_spec_diff and thomson_spec_series.

Parameters:

eleckinengndarray

Incoming electron kinetic energy.

photengndarray

Outgoing photon energy.

Tfloat

CMB temperature.

as_pairsbool

If true, treats eleckineng and photeng as a paired list: produces eleckineng.size == photeng.size values. Otherwise, gets the spectrum at each photeng for each eleckineng, returning an array of length eleckineng.size*photeng.size.

Returns:

TransFuncAtRedshift or ndarray

dN/(dt dE) of the outgoing photons (dt = 1 s). If as_pairs == False, returns a TransFuncAtRedshift, with abscissa given by (eleckineng, photeng). Otherwise, returns an ndarray, with abscissa given by each pair of (eleckineng, photeng).

Notes

Insert note on the suitability of the method.