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The parameters in the params="..." attribute below are as follows
1. Select model (for now the only available is default=1);
2. Pulsar flux above 100 MeV (ph cm -2 s -1);
3. Period (s);
4. Period derivative (s per s);
5. Number of peaks in light curve;
6-9. Parameters of the functional form describing the spectrum (see PulsarSpectrum tutorial pagelink below in this section);
NOTE: The period derivative is ignored in Science Tools v5r1; you will want at least v5r1p1 to get the version of the source that actually uses the period derivative.
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Here is the distribution of the events on the sky (with some outliers cropped off) for this simulation. Also shown is the overall counts spectrum for the one-week observation.
Note: This source apparently also leaves behind a file called pulsar.root in the directory from which you run obsSim.
Tutorial for PulsarSpectrum
An HTML tutorial page for PulsarSpectrum is available at :
http://www.pi.infn.it/~razzano/Pulsar/PulsarSpectrumTutorial/PsrSpectrumTut.html
This page contains a brief description of the emission model used, and how to make PulsarSpectrum available to ObsSim. It also include the steps to follow for generating an example of pulsar.
GalPulsars (Hierath)
There's nothing really to specify in the XML file. All of the information is in the file named in the params attribute, which is human readable. The file flux/v8r10p2/sources/pulsars.txt has many more pulsars.
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This source generated 163,716 gamma rays in the one-week observation.
More sources to come
Tutorial for PulsarSpectrum
An HTML tutorial page for PulsarSpectrum is available at :
http://www.pi.infn.it/~razzano/Pulsar/PulsarSpectrumTutorial/PsrSpectrumTut.html
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