Parameters

A top-level parameter overview when initialising a .pf file. These parameters are universally required for all .pf files 99% of the time. The boolean parameters for this list are assumed to be no. If yes, the user is asked about further parameters.

Primary .pf Parameters

• System_type

Parameters for the Central Object

• Central_object.mass

• Central_object.radius

• Central_object.radiation

Parameters for the Disk (if there is one)

• Disk.type

• Disk.radiation

• Disk.temperature.profile

• Disk.mdot

• Disk.radmax

Parameters for Boundary Layer or the Compact Object

• Boundary_layer.radiation

Parameters describing the various winds or coronae in the system

• Wind Model Parameters

Parameters associated with photon number, cycles,ionization and radiative transfer options

• Photons_per_cycle

• Ionization_cycles

• Spectrum_cycles

• Wind.ionization

• Line_transfer

• Wind.radiation

• Surface.reflection.or.absorption

• Wind_heating.extra_processes

• Atomic Data

Parameters for Domain 0

• Winds

The minimum and maximum wavelengths in the final spectra and the number of wavelength bins

• Spectrum.nwave

• Spectrum.wavemin

• Spectrum.wavemax

The observers and their location relative to the system

• Spectrum.no_observers

• Spectrum.angle

• Spectrum.orbit_phase

• Spectrum.live_or_die

• Spectrum.type

Parameters for Reverberation Modeling (if needed)

• Reverb.type

Others

• Photon_sampling.approach

Diagnostic switches

• Diag.extra

• Diag.use_standard_care_factors

• Diag.write_atomicdata