Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of u/erica/CF_coldens

Timestamp:

01/08/15 14:24:38 (10 years ago)

Author:

Erica Kaminski

Comment:

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u/erica/CF_coldens

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 For my specific data, my lscale is 1 pc, and my nscale is 1 (which just means it is in cgs by default). So the quantity the code gives for 'projected column density in computational units', can be thought of as being in pc/cm^3^. To convert this to 1/cm^2^, multiply by the conversion factor 1pc = 3.08567758 × 10^18^ cm.
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-Instead, we should multiply our projected number density by nscale*lscale, if both scales are in cgs. That will give the quantity we are looking for, n in 1/cm^3^.