Class AbstractAccelerationModule

Inheritance Relationships

Base Type

Derived Types

Class Documentation

class AbstractAccelerationModule : public Module

Core functionallity for acceleration by scattering with scatter centers moving in a velocity field.

The velocity field is implicity implemented in the derived classes for performance reasons. Models for the dependence of the step length of the scatter process are set via modifiers.

Subclassed by DirectedFlowScattering, SecondOrderFermi

Public Functions

AbstractAccelerationModule(double _stepLength = 1. * parsec)

The parent’s constructor need to be called on initialization!

void add(StepLengthModifier *modifier)
virtual void process(Candidate *candidate) const

Process function This is the main function to work with, it is called during every ModuleList::run step. Derived functions need to override this overload of process!

Parameters:

candidate – Candidate raw pointer

virtual Vector3d scatterCenterVelocity(Candidate *candidate) const = 0

Returns the velocity vector of the scatter centers in the rest frame of the candidate. Needs to be implemented in inheriting classes.

void scatter(Candidate *candidate, const Vector3d &scatter_center_velocity) const

Scatter the candidate with a center with given scatter center velocity into a random direction. Assumes that the candidate is ultra-relativistic (m = 0).

virtual std::string getDescription() const

Returns description, can be overriden by derived class.

void setDescription(const std::string &description)

Sets description, can be used instead of getDescription in derived class

Parameters:

description – Description string

inline void process(ref_ptr<Candidate> candidate) const

Process function Overload for process function to explicitly make a conversion from ref_ptr to a raw pointer

inline size_t addReference() const
inline size_t removeReference() const
inline int removeReferenceNoDelete() const
inline size_t getReferenceCount() const

Protected Attributes

mutable size_t _referenceCount