Commit 42a87fff635f02447c45f28d8607da97da234e38

Authored by Christoph Deil
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Fix formula in GModelRadialDisk::eval() doxygen documentation

Also added a clarifying comment to GModelRadialDisk::update().
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src/model/GModelRadialDisk.cpp
... ... @@ -217,16 +217,16 @@ GModelRadialDisk* GModelRadialDisk::clone(void) const
217 217 /***********************************************************************//**
218 218 * @brief Evaluate function (in units of sr^-1)
219 219 *
220   - * @param[in] theta Angular distance from shell centre (radians).
  220 + * @param[in] theta Angular distance from disk centre (radians).
221 221 *
222 222 * Evaluates the spatial part for a disk source model. The disk source
223 223 * model is a radial function \f$f(\theta)\f$, where \f$\theta\f$ is the
224   - * angular separation between shell centre and the actual location:
  224 + * angular separation between disk centre and the actual location:
225 225 * \f[
226 226 * f(\theta) = \left \{
227 227 * \begin{array}{l l}
228 228 * \displaystyle
229   - * 2 \pi ( 1 - \cos(\theta))
  229 + * {\tt m\_norm}
230 230 * & \mbox{if $\theta \le $ radius} \\
231 231 * \\
232 232 * \displaystyle
... ... @@ -234,6 +234,8 @@ GModelRadialDisk* GModelRadialDisk::clone(void) const
234 234 * \end{array}
235 235 * \right .
236 236 * \f]
  237 + * \f${\tt m\_norm}\f$ is a normalization constant
  238 + * (see the update() method).
237 239 ***************************************************************************/
238 240 double GModelRadialDisk::eval(const double& theta) const
239 241 {
... ... @@ -263,7 +265,7 @@ double GModelRadialDisk::eval(const double& theta) const
263 265 /***********************************************************************//**
264 266 * @brief Evaluate function and gradients (in units of sr^-1)
265 267 *
266   - * @param[in] theta Angular distance from shell centre (radians).
  268 + * @param[in] theta Angular distance from disk centre (radians).
267 269 *
268 270 * Evaluates the function value. No gradient computation is implemented as
269 271 * radial models will be convolved with the instrument response and thus
... ... @@ -478,7 +480,7 @@ void GModelRadialDisk::init_members(void)
478 480 m_pars.push_back(&m_radius);
479 481  
480 482 // Initialise precomputation cache. Note that zero values flag
481   - // uninitialised as a zero radius and width shell is not meaningful
  483 + // uninitialised as a zero radius is not meaningful
482 484 m_last_radius = 0.0;
483 485 m_radius_rad = 0.0;
484 486 m_norm = 0.0;
... ... @@ -527,6 +529,11 @@ void GModelRadialDisk::free_members(void)
527 529 *
528 530 * Computes the normalization
529 531 * \f[{\tt m\_norm} = \frac{1}{2 \pi (1 - \cos r)}\f]
  532 + *
  533 + * Note that this is the correct normalization on the sphere for any
  534 + * disk radius r. For small r it is very similar to the cartesian
  535 + * approximation you might have expected:
  536 + * \f[{\tt m\_norm} = \frac{1}{\pi r ^ 2}\f]
530 537 ***************************************************************************/
531 538 void GModelRadialDisk::update() const
532 539 {
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