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authorAaron LI <aly@aaronly.me>2018-01-02 16:32:33 +0800
committerAaron LI <aly@aaronly.me>2018-01-02 19:27:55 +0800
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clusters/halo: rewrite description; remove an obsolete reference
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diff --git a/fg21sim/extragalactic/clusters/halo.py b/fg21sim/extragalactic/clusters/halo.py
index cd6b9bc..5b600c1 100644
--- a/fg21sim/extragalactic/clusters/halo.py
+++ b/fg21sim/extragalactic/clusters/halo.py
@@ -2,10 +2,15 @@
# MIT license
"""
-Simulate (giant) radio halo originating from the last/recent
-cluster-cluster major merger event, following the "statistical
-magneto-turbulent model" proposed by [cassano2005]_, but with many
-modifications and simplifications.
+Simulate (giant) radio halos originating from the recent merger
+events, which generate cluster-wide turbulence and accelerate the
+primary (i.e., fossil) relativistic electrons to high energies to
+be synchrotron-bright. This *turbulence re-acceleration* model
+is currently most widely accepted to explain the (giant) radio halos.
+
+The simulation method is somewhat based on the statistical (Monte
+Carlo) method proposed by [cassano2005]_, but with extensive
+modifications and improvements.
References
----------
@@ -13,10 +18,6 @@ References
Brunetti & Lazarian 2011, MNRAS, 410, 127
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011MNRAS.410..127B
-.. [brunetti2016]
- Brunetti 2016, PPCF, 58, 014011
- http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016PPCF...58a4011B
-
.. [cassano2005]
Cassano & Brunetti 2005, MNRAS, 357, 1313
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005MNRAS.357.1313C
@@ -74,8 +75,8 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
class RadioHalo:
"""
- Simulate the extended radio halo emission from the galaxy cluster
- experiencing on-going/recent merger.
+ Simulate the diffuse (giant) radio halo emission for a galaxy
+ cluster experiencing on-going/recent merger.
Description
-----------