UniformDistributionSingleLuminosityHip#

class agabpylib.simulation.parallaxsurveys.UniformDistributionSingleLuminosityHip(numberOfStars, minDistance, maxDistance, meanAbsoluteMagnitude, stddevAbsoluteMagnitude, surveyLimit=inf)#

Bases: UniformSpaceDistributionSingleLuminosity

Simulate a parallax survey for stars distributed uniformly in space around the sun. The stars all have the same luminosity drawn from a Gaussian distribution. The errors on the observed parallaxes and apparent magnitudes roughly follow the characteristics of the Hipparcos Catalogue.

meanAbsoluteMagnitude#

Mean of Gaussian absolute magnitude distribution

Type:

float

stddevAbsoluteMagnitude#

Standard deviation of Gaussian absolute magnitude distribution

Type:

float