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Synchotron Self-Compton Radiation and some multithreading

  Progress has been made since the last post.  My modifications to boxfit now allow for basic Inverse-Compton radiation.  Here is a reference spectrum generated using the shipped settings.  The current method uses the definition of the inverse compton parameter (Y) laid out in Nakar et. al. Apj, 703, 675, and functions for the slow cooling regime mainly, with placeholders in the other regimes. The orange is the SSC enabled spectrum, and it is behaving exactly as expected above the cooling break.   The Next step is to get the proper parameterization for Y based on Nakar et. al. as well as Beniamini et al. MNRAS, 454, 1073B.  This includes the Klein-Nishina effect at higher frequencies.  I do worry a bit about how computationally expensive this will be, but I can't really speak to optimizations until I have a better idea of what the algorithm is going to look like.   I am still working on the CUDA port, but I haven't had much time to think abo...