ExponentialAtmosphereDensityProfile

class ctapipe.atmosphere.ExponentialAtmosphereDensityProfile(scale_height: astropy.units.quantity.Quantity = <Quantity 8. km>, scale_density: astropy.units.quantity.Quantity = <Quantity 0.00125 g / cm3>)

Bases: ctapipe.atmosphere.AtmosphereDensityProfile

A simple functional density profile modeled as an exponential.

The is defined following the form:

\[\rho(h) = \rho_0 e^{-h/h_0}\]

from ctapipe.atmosphere import ExponentialAtmosphereDensityProfile
density_profile = ExponentialAtmosphereDensityProfile()
density_profile.peek()

Attributes

scale_height: u.Quantity[“m”]

scale height (h0)

scale_density: u.Quantity[“g cm-3”]

scale density (rho0)

Attributes Summary

scale_density
scale_height

Methods Summary

__call__(height)	Returns
integral(height)	Integral of the profile along the height axis, i.e. the atmospheric depth \(X\).

Attributes Documentation

scale_density: astropy.units.quantity.Quantity = <Quantity 0.00125 g / cm3>

scale_height: astropy.units.quantity.Quantity = <Quantity 8. km>

Methods Documentation

__call__(height) → astropy.units.quantity.Quantity

Returns

u.Quantity[“g cm-3”]

the density at height h

integral(height) → astropy.units.quantity.Quantity

Integral of the profile along the height axis, i.e. the atmospheric depth \(X\).

\[X(h) = \int_{h}^{\infty} \rho(h') dh'\]

Returns

u.Quantity[“g/cm2”]:

Integral of the density from height h to infinity