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spacepy.empiricals.getVampolaOrder

spacepy.empiricals.getVampolaOrder(L)[source]

Empirical lookup of power for sin^n pitch angle model from Vampola (1996)

Vampola, A.L. Outer zone energetic electron environment update, Final Report of ESA/ESTEC/WMA/P.O. 151351, ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 1996.

Parameters:

L : arraylike or float

Returns:

order : array

coefficient for sin^n model corresponding to McIlwain L (computed for OP77?)