FittedLine

class lsst.meas.algorithms.FittedLine(center, direction)

Bases: object

A straight line through center along the unit vector direction.

Parameters

centernumpy.ndarray

(x, y) of a point on the line: the mean of the points it was fit to.

directionnumpy.ndarray

Unit vector along the line; its sign is arbitrary.

Methods Summary

distance(x, y)

Compute the perpendicular distance of points from the line.

Methods Documentation

distance(x, y)

Compute the perpendicular distance of points from the line.

Parameters

x, ynumpy.ndarray or float

Coordinates of the points.

Returns

distancenumpy.ndarray or float

Distance of each point from the line, in the units of x and y.