BlackbodyCurve

class simcado.spectral.BlackbodyCurve(lam, temp, **kwargs)

Bases: simcado.spectral.EmissionCurve

Blackbody emission curve

Parameters

lam1D np.ndarray

[um] the centres of the wavelength bins

tempfloat

[deg C] float for the average temperature of the blackbody

pix_resfloat, optional

[arcsec] Default is 0.004. Field of view for each pixel

areafloat, optional

[m2] Default is 978m2. Area of the emitting surface

Returns

EmissionCurve object with units of [ph/s/voxel], i.e. photons per second

per wavelength bin per full area per pixel field of view