Re: [Ifeffit] Xanes with Athena?

2009-10-26 Thread Bruce Ravel
On Monday 26 October 2009 04:42:44 am Annette Pietzsch wrote: I tried to use the self absorption function of the Athena package (FLUO) with my Xanes data (Fe3O4 at the Fe L3 edge). The program identifies the edge correctly, but gives only a zero line for the correction. I think it might be due

Re: [Ifeffit] suppressing the stdout of FEFF

2009-10-26 Thread Bruce Ravel
On Monday 26 October 2009 07:35:37 am Jochen Brendt wrote: I want to use FEFF8 in a program loop and redirect the stdout of this programm in a textfile. When I run the loop several times this textfile becomes very large. Does anybody know, if there is a way to suppress the stdout of FEFF8 ?

Re: [Ifeffit] Normalization in Athena

2009-10-26 Thread Kelly, Shelly
Hi Lisa, Be sure that Athena has been rigorously tested and she does know how to normalize data. It is much more likely that the default values are not the best ones for your data. My book chapter goes over how Athena normalizes data in detail. If you send me your email address I'll send you a

Re: [Ifeffit] Normalization in Athena

2009-10-26 Thread Kropf, Arthur Jeremy
Shelly, I agree that Athena applies its (her) algorithm correctly. Whether that algorithm is correct may be a matter of opinion. The apparent discrepency Lisa sees is due to Athena's algorithm: i.e., fit preedge line, fit postedge function to normalization range, extrapolate both functions to

Re: [Ifeffit] Normalization in Athena

2009-10-26 Thread Bruce Ravel
It is a little hard to evaluate your results, Lisa, without an example. It may help to attach a small project file which demonstrates your question. Without an actual example, I would have to guess that the bottom line is an odd choice of parameters. This page from the document might be

Re: [Ifeffit] Normalization in Athena

2009-10-26 Thread Matt Newville
Lisa, I think the issue you're seeing is most likely due to telling athena to fit the data between E0+199 and E0+200 with a constant. I'd recommend expanding that range some to give Athena a chance -- if there isn't any data between E=E0+199 and E0+200, Athena won't be able to figure out what

Re: [Ifeffit] Rbkg value

2009-10-26 Thread Matt Newville
Hi Chris, There is nothing sacred about Rbkg=1.0 Ang. It was chosen as a reasonable default. If you know you have atoms much closer than 2Ang, lowering Rbkg to half the first neighbor distance is a fine place to start. You may have to play with this value (and the k-weight used in the

Re: [Ifeffit] suppressing the stdout of FEFF

2009-10-26 Thread Bruce Ravel
On Monday 26 October 2009 12:17:38 pm Matt Newville wrote: If you are writing scripts to loop around Feff,  I'd recommend making sure that each run happens in its own directory. The reason for that being that Feff happily clobbers any output from a previous run. Because of this, in both

[Ifeffit] SrSO4 (Celestite) and SrCO3

2009-10-26 Thread Peter Nico
Hello All, Would anyone out there have a SrSO4 or SrCO3 standard XANES spectra they would be willing to share? There aren't any in the databases of which I am aware, namely Lytle, GSECARS, and NSLS X18b. There is a SrCO3 but its really an EXAFS standard (the edge consists of ~3 points.)

Re: [Ifeffit] SrSO4 (Celestite) and SrCO3

2009-10-26 Thread Scott Calvin
Hi Peter, I think I have one of SrCO3, but it will take me a couple days to dig it up. --Scott Calvin Sarah Lawrence College On Oct 26, 2009, at 7:10 PM, Peter Nico wrote: Hello All, Would anyone out there have a SrSO4 or SrCO3 standard XANES spectra they would be willing to share?

[Ifeffit] atom.inp file for Zr50Cu50

2009-10-26 Thread S. Gautam
Dear All, Can anyone help me with the atom.inp file for ZrCu bulk metallic glass samples? I am studying the Ag doping effects over the inter-atomic distance and co-ordination number through Artemis. thanking you, sincerely sanjeev --- Dr S. Gautam Nano Materials Analysis Center