sample_sphere#
- 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
- sizeint
Number of samples to generate
- lon_range
Angle
, optional Longitude range (min, max)
- lat_range
Angle
, optional Latitude 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
- lon, lat: