Make use of KD uncertainties in the code

tomr-stargazer / dendrogal

Analysis tools for my dendrogram decomposition of the Milky Way.

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Open tomr-stargazer opened 9 years ago

tomr-stargazer commented 9 years ago

This takes two forms:

Keep the uncertainties (positive and negative provided separately by Mark Reid's revised_kdist code) everywhere the distances are present
Use the uncertainties when calculating derived properties of size, luminosity, mass, and virial parameter alpha.

tomr-stargazer commented 9 years ago

tomr-stargazer commented 9 years ago

also relevant: the ±30% error on masses (cite Bolatto et al. 2013 for this).