distanceQuantilesEdsd( plxMas, plxErrorMas, lPc, qpoints, ... )
Note this function has to numerically integrate the PDF to determine quantile values, so it is relatively slow.
plxMas
(floating point)plxErrorMas
(floating point)lPc
(floating point)qpoints
(floating point, one or more)qpoints
giving the corresponding distance in parsecdistanceQuantilesEdsd(parallax, parallax_error,
1350, 0.5)[0]
calculates the median of the EDSD distance PDF
using a length scale of 1.35kpcdistanceQuantilesEdsd(parallax, parallax_error,
3000, 0.01, 0.99)
returns a 2-element array giving the 1st and 99th percentile
of the distance estimate using a length scale of 3kpcdouble[] distanceQuantilesEdsd(double, double, double, double...)