Cooling Curves

I made this plot to look at how the Z cooling curve compares to the DM curve. Z cooling which, as a reminder, uses Pat's tables is highly dependent on the electron density ne and ionization fraction Xh. Here, I only plotted 2 possibilities: low ne, low Xh and high ne, high Xh. By "low" and "high" I mean the minimum and maximum of Pat's table.

Also, it is important to note that outside of the temperature range of Pat's table, the cooling routines currently revert back to neqcooling. It's more difficult to make a plot of this since there are no tables for this type of cooling. The cooling rates from ionization and recombination are calculated on the fly for neqcooling.

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