| 10 | Understanding the format of this table is crucial to interpolating correctly. There are a few properties that this table must have: |
| 11 | 1.) It must be ordered as log(ne), T, log(X), (9 species cooling fractions), cooling rate. Where ne is the electron density, T is temperature, X is ionization fraction, and the 9 species cooling fractions are the fractions of how much each species contributes to the cooling rate. The 9 species are ordered as follows: OI, OII, NI, NII, SII, FeII, SIII, MgII, CII. |
| 12 | 2.) The first three parameters in the table must be "cycled" through in the following order: log(X), log(ne), T. In other words, if you follow the table going down, the log(X) column changes first while log(ne) and T remain constant. Then once all values of log(X) are cycled through, log(ne) changes to its next value and log(X) gets cycled through again. The process repeats until all possible values are cycled through. This is important so that all the cooling rates |
| 13 | 3.) The very first line of the table needs to have nDensities, nTemps, nXs. As an example, the first line might read: 40 30 21. This means there are 40 different values for log(ne), 30 for T, and 21 for log(X). Thus, there are a total of 25,200 different values for the cooling rate (40*30*21 = 25,200). |