sample_sphere¶
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gammapy.utils.random.
sample_sphere
(size, lon_range=None, lat_range=None, random_state='random-seed')[source]¶ Sample random points on the sphere.
Reference: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SpherePointPicking.html
Parameters: size : int
Number of samples to generate
lon_range :
Angle
, optionalLongitude range (min, max)
lat_range :
Angle
, optionalLatitude range (min, max)
random_state : {int, ‘random-seed’, ‘global-rng’,
RandomState
}Defines random number generator initialisation. Passed to
get_random_state
.Returns: lon, lat:
Angle
Longitude and latitude coordinate arrays