Source code for astropy.units.photometric

# Licensed under a 3-clause BSD style license - see LICENSE.rst

"""
This module defines magnitude zero points and related photometric quantities.

The corresponding magnitudes are given in the description of each unit
(the actual definitions are in `~astropy.units.function.logarithmic`).
"""


import numpy as _numpy

from astropy.constants import si as _si

from . import astrophys, cgs, si
from .core import Unit, UnitBase, def_unit

_ns = globals()

def_unit(
    ["Bol", "L_bol"],
    _si.L_bol0,
    namespace=_ns,
    prefixes=False,
    doc=(
        "Luminosity corresponding to absolute bolometric magnitude zero "
        "(magnitude ``M_bol``)."
    ),
)
def_unit(
    ["bol", "f_bol"],
    _si.L_bol0 / (4 * _numpy.pi * (10.0 * astrophys.pc) ** 2),
    namespace=_ns,
    prefixes=False,
    doc=(
        "Irradiance corresponding to appparent bolometric magnitude zero "
        "(magnitude ``m_bol``)."
    ),
)
def_unit(
    ["AB", "ABflux"],
    10.0 ** (48.6 / -2.5) * cgs.erg * cgs.cm**-2 / si.s / si.Hz,
    namespace=_ns,
    prefixes=False,
    doc="AB magnitude zero flux density (magnitude ``ABmag``).",
)
def_unit(
    ["ST", "STflux"],
    10.0 ** (21.1 / -2.5) * cgs.erg * cgs.cm**-2 / si.s / si.AA,
    namespace=_ns,
    prefixes=False,
    doc="ST magnitude zero flux density (magnitude ``STmag``).",
)
def_unit(
    ["mgy", "maggy"],
    namespace=_ns,
    prefixes=[(["n"], ["nano"], 1e-9)],
    doc=(
        "Maggies - a linear flux unit that is the flux for a mag=0 object."
        "To tie this onto a specific calibrated unit system, the "
        "zero_point_flux equivalency should be used."
    ),
)


[docs]def zero_point_flux(flux0):
    """
    An equivalency for converting linear flux units ("maggys") defined relative
    to a standard source into a standardized system.

    Parameters
    ----------
    flux0 : `~astropy.units.Quantity`
        The flux of a magnitude-0 object in the "maggy" system.
    """
    flux_unit0 = Unit(flux0)
    return [(maggy, flux_unit0)]


###########################################################################
# CLEANUP

del UnitBase
del def_unit
del cgs, si, astrophys

###########################################################################
# DOCSTRING

# This generates a docstring for this module that describes all of the
# standard units defined here.
from .utils import generate_unit_summary as _generate_unit_summary

if __doc__ is not None:
    __doc__ += _generate_unit_summary(globals())
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