Function distanceEstimateEdsd( plxMas, plxErrorMas, lPc )
- Description:
-
Best estimate of distance using the Exponentially Decreasing
Space Density prior.
This estimate is provided by the mode of the PDF.
- Parameters:
-
plxMas
(floating point)
- parallax in mas
plxErrorMas
(floating point)
- parallax error in mas
lPc
(floating point)
- length scale in parsec
- Return Value (floating point):
- best distance estimate in parsec
- Signature:
double distanceEstimateEdsd(double, double, double)