vice.singlezone.tau_ia

Type : real number

Default : 1.5

The e-folding timescale in Gyr of an exponentially decaying delay-time distribution in type Ia supernovae.

Note

Because this is an e-folding timescale, it only matter when the attribute RIa == “exp”.

See also

vice.singlezone.RIa

Example Code

>>> import vice
>>> sz = vice.singlezone(name = "example", RIa = "exp")
>>> sz.tau_ia = 1.0
>>> sz.tau_ia = 1.5
>>> sz.tau_ia = 2.0