What's with the forsterite opacity curve in optool? Is it optool, or am I the problem? The expected curve from Suto+2006 is as below, followed by the curve from optool.
outputscontains the outputdustkappa.datfiles from optool. The commands I used to obtain the outputs are provided in line 15 of the output .dat files.opacity.pyis the script I used to plot the opacity curves from the output files of optool.optool_check.pywas an earlier script I used to plot opacity curves. It was used to plot the multiple fmax curve (see below).imagescontain the opacity curves plotted usingopacity.py.
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Fayalite and forsterite opacity files are mixed up: At first glance, both the opacity curves look similar, and I really believed this was it. But they are not the same. See
optool_fayalite_opacityandoptool_forsterite_opacityincurves. -
$\lambda_{min}$ causing issues:$\lambda_{min}$ for Forsterite on the userguide is 5$\mu m$ . So what if I just use that as$\lambda_{min}$ ? It does solve the issue of the peak of Forsterite being at about 8000$g/cm^2$ (it was previously at about 6000$g/cm^2$ ), but the curve still looks weird. -
Is it the fmaxs?: Tried with a whole bunch of fmax values. Used 0.999 instead of 1.0 since optool doesn't seem to accept 1.0 as a possible value for the fmax. Does not help. Image below:
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Output file all good. I plot like an idiot: I need to cover all bases, okay? I try saving the wavelength and
$K_{abs}$ using pandas and the with open file command. Both yield similar results. I also tried plotting$K_{sca}$ . No bueno. - Something's wrong with optool: Dare I say I'm leaning towards this one at the moment? But of course, I am not wading through the deep, dark, mystical Fortran ocean to figure this one out.
- It is my stupidity: The most likely possibility. But I can't figure out what I am missing. An untestable hypothesis?
