Spectrum.live_or_die

Normally in creating detailed spectrum Python “extracts” photons in a certain direction reweighting them to account for the fact that they have been extracted in a certain direction. It is possible to just count the photons that are emitted in a single angle range. The two methods should yield the same or very similar results but the extraction method is much more efficient and live or die is basically a diagnostic mode.

Type

Enumerator

Values
live.or.die

Count only those photons that escape within a small angle range towards the observer

extract

Extract a component of all photons that scatter towards the observer

File

setup.c

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