Units
The ‘units’ parameter category contains parameters specifying the unit system used by CONCEPT. This system of units is used both internally and for output.
unit_length
Description |
Specifies the base length unit to use |
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Default |
'Mpc'
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Elaboration |
Internally, all dimensional values (be it lengths or
otherwise) are represented as bare floating-point
numbers. The number |
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Example 0 |
Use kiloparsec as the base length unit: unit_length = 'kpc'
Caution Note that unlike when using units when defining other
parameters, here |
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Example 1 |
Many other codes make use of units like
\(\text{Mpc}/h\) or \(\text{kpc}/h\), where
\(h \equiv H_0/(100\, \text{km}\, \text{s}^{-1}\, \text{Mpc}^{-1})\)
and \(H_0\) is the Hubble constant.
Specifying simply unit_length = 'Mpc/0.67'
given that |
unit_time
Description |
Specifies the base time unit to use |
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Default |
'Gyr'
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Elaboration |
Internally, all dimensional values (be it times or
otherwise) are represented as bare floating-point
numbers. The number |
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Example 0 |
Use seconds as the base time unit: unit_time = 's'
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Example 1 |
Use the same base time unit as is (implicitly) used in CLASS: unit_time = 'Mpc/c'
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unit_mass
Description |
Specifies the base mass unit to use |
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Default |
'10¹⁰ m☉'
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Elaboration |
Internally, all dimensional values (be it masses or
otherwise) are represented as bare floating-point
numbers. The number |
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Example 0 |
Use the same base mass unit as is (implicitly) used in CLASS (at least in the background module): unit_mass = '3/(8 π G) c² Mpc'
Note In specifying the symbolic unit, we are allowed to be fancy as above. We could equivalently use e.g. unit_mass = '119366.2073189215*light_speed**2*pc/G_Newton'
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