Class cosmicstarformation

source code

The Cosmic Star Formation rate
The model used to develop this class was presented by the first time
in the article of Pereira and Miranda (2010) - (MNRAS, 401, 1924, 2010).

The cosmologic background model is passed as a instance parameter:
    cosmology

Keyword arguments:
    tau -- (default - 2.5) time scale, in Gyr, of the CSFR.

    eimf -- (default 1.35) exponent of the Initial Mass Function

    nsch -- (default 1) the normalization factor in the CSFR model

    imfType -- (default S - Salpeter) the Initial Mass Function Type.
               Possible values:
                   S: Salpeter
                   K: Kroupa

    lmin -- (default 6.0) log10 of the minal mass of the dark halo
                        where it is possible to have star formation.

    zmax -- (defaul 20.0) - the maximum redshift to be considered

    omegam -- (default 0.24) - The dark matter parameter

    omegab -- (default 0.04) - The barionic parameter

    omegal -- (default 0.73) - The dark energy parameter

    h -- (default 0.7) - The h of the Hubble constant (H = h * 100)

    massFunctionType -- (default "ST") The type of mass
    function of dark matter halos used. Possibles values:
         "ST" for Seth and Thormen mass function.
         "TK" for Tinker et al. mass function.