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author | Aaron LI <aly@aaronly.me> | 2018-10-31 15:44:30 +0800 |
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committer | Aaron LI <aly@aaronly.me> | 2018-10-31 15:44:30 +0800 |
commit | 7e3e79ccf17ac8620b1cb784b9018760ceee9733 (patch) | |
tree | fb3982f8ab19469c1d691670e89bef5f62a1b75f /fg21sim | |
parent | ba769e231159def35a05950278b50fe8a61b77b3 (diff) | |
download | fg21sim-7e3e79ccf17ac8620b1cb784b9018760ceee9733.tar.bz2 |
clusters/halo: Rework the way to disable turbulent acceleration
Introduce a new property '_acceleration_disabled' to control whether the
turbulent acceleration is disabled. With this new property, improve the
code to derive the initial electron spectrum.
Diffstat (limited to 'fg21sim')
-rw-r--r-- | fg21sim/extragalactic/clusters/halo.py | 29 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/fg21sim/extragalactic/clusters/halo.py b/fg21sim/extragalactic/clusters/halo.py index c54bb73..f18e16a 100644 --- a/fg21sim/extragalactic/clusters/halo.py +++ b/fg21sim/extragalactic/clusters/halo.py @@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ class RadioHalo: the final time (``zend``), which is set by the methods ``self.calc_electron_spectrum()`` or ``self.set_electron_spectrum()``. Unit: [cm^-3] + _acceleration_disabled : bool + Whether the turbulence acceleration is intentionally disabled? """ # Component name compID = "extragalactic/halos" @@ -145,6 +147,7 @@ class RadioHalo: self.z_merger = z_merger self.age_merger = COSMO.age(z_merger) + self._acceleration_disabled = False self._set_configs(configs) self._set_solver() @@ -426,14 +429,15 @@ class RadioHalo: n0_e = n_inj * (self.age_begin - self.time_init) logger.debug("Derive the initial electron spectrum ...") - dt = self.time_step - tstart = self.age_begin - self.time_init - dt - tstop = self.age_begin - dt # avoid acceleration at the ``age_begin`` - # Use a bigger time step to save time - self.fpsolver.tstep = 3 * dt + self._acceleration_disabled = True + dt = self.fpsolver.tstep + tstart = self.age_begin + tstop = self.age_begin + self.time_init + self.fpsolver.tstep = 3 * dt # Bigger step to save time n_e = self.fpsolver.solve(u0=n0_e, tstart=tstart, tstop=tstop) - # Restore the original time step self.fpsolver.tstep = dt + self._acceleration_disabled = False + return n_e def calc_electron_spectrum(self, tstart=None, tstop=None, n0_e=None): @@ -715,18 +719,11 @@ class RadioHalo: def _is_turb_active(self, t): """ - Is the turbulence acceleration is active at the given (cosmic) time? - - NOTE - ---- - Considering that the turbulence acceleration is a 2nd-order Fermi - process, it has only an effective acceleration time ~<1 Gyr. - Therefore, only during the period that strong turbulence persists - in the ICM that the turbulence could effectively accelerate the - relativistic electrons. + Is the turbulence acceleration is active at the given time? """ - if t < self.age_begin: + if self._acceleration_disabled: return False + t_merger = self._merger_time(t) t_turb = self.time_turbulence(t_merger) return (t >= t_merger) and (t <= t_merger + t_turb) |