vice.mlr.setting

Type : str [assignment is case-insensitive]

Default : “larson1974”

New in version 1.3.0.

A keyword denoting which functional form of the mass-lifetime relation to adopt in chemical evolution models. Allowed keywords and the journal references for them:

  • “powerlaw” : N/A

  • “vincenzo2016”: Vincenzo et al. (2016) [1]

  • “hpt2000”: Hurley, Pols & Tout (2000) [2]

  • “ka1997”: Kodama & Arimoto (1997) [3]

  • “pm1993”: Padovani & Matteucci (1993) [4]

  • “mm1989”: Maeder & Meynet (1989) [5]

  • “larson1974”: Larson (1974) [6]

See also

  • vice.mlr.powerlaw

  • vice.mlr.vincenzo2016

  • vice.mlr.hpt2000

  • vice.mlr.ka1997

  • vice.mlr.pm1993

  • vice.mlr.mm1989

  • vice.mlr.larson1974

Note

Though assignment of this object is case-insensitive, the value stored will always be lower-cased. See example below assigning the Kodama & Arimoto (1997) MLR as the setting.

Example Code

>>> import vice
>>> vice.mlr.setting # the default setting
"larson1974"
>>> vice.mlr.setting = "KA1997"
>>> vice.mlr.setting
"ka1997"
>>> vice.mlr.setting = "hpt2000"
>>> vice.mlr.setting
"hpt2000"