commit ae06330ea8bbb88d6ac48d94eba4df92f96cc1b9
parent 2236f0907c6e67c7483744a11707e14c25bf7ae7
Author: Vincent Forest <vincent.forest@meso-star.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:56:14 +0100
Minor update of the schiff-output man mage
Document the unit of the cross-section values.
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/schiff-output.5 b/doc/schiff-output.5
@@ -15,17 +15,18 @@ point values is a list of per wavelength cross\-sections. Each line stores the
estimated cross\-section for a wavelength submitted by the \fB\-w\fR option of
.BR schiff (1).
It is formatted as "W E e A a S s P p" with "W" the wavelength in vacumm
-(expressed in micron), "E", "A" and "S" the estimation of the extinction,
-absorption and scattering cross\-sections, respectively, and "P" the estimated
-average projected area of the soft particles. The "e", "a", "s" and "p" values
-are the standard error of the aforementioned estimations.
+(expressed in microns), "E", "A" and "S" the estimation of the extinction,
+absorption and scattering cross\-sections, respectively, in square microns per
+particle, and "P" the estimated average projected area of the soft particles
+expressed in square microns per particle. The "e", "a", "s" and "p" values are
+the standard error of the aforementioned estimations.
.PP
An empty line then separates the cross\-sections from the list of per
wavelength inverse cumulative phase functions.
.PP
Each inverse cumulative phase function begins by a line that describes how the
function was computed. The format of this line is "W theta-l Ws Ws-SE Wc Wc-SE
-n" with "W" the wavelength in vacuum (expressed in micron) of the inverse
+n" with "W" the wavelength in vacuum (expressed in microns) of the inverse
cumulative phase function, "theta-l" the scattering angle in radians from which
the phase function was analytically computed, "Ws" and "Wc" the values of the
differential cross\-section and its cumulative at "theta-l", and "n" the
