vice.singlezone.enhancement

Type : real number or <function>

Default : 1.0

The ratio of the outflow to ISM metallicities. Real numbers will be taken as constant. Functions must accept time in Gyr as the only parameter. This will apply to all elements tracked by the simulation.

Note

Saving this functional attribute with VICE outputs requires the package dill, an extension to pickle in the Python standard library. It is recommended that VICE user’s install dill >= 0.2.0.

See also

• vice.singlezone.eta

• vice.singlezone.smoothing

Example Code

>>> import vice
>>> sz = vice.singlezone(name = "example")
>>> sz.enhancement = 3
>>> def f(t):
        if t <= 1:
                return 5
        else:
                return 1
>>> sz.enhancement = f