dyad.stats.mass_ratio

Mass ratio (dyad.stats.mass_ratio)

This module contains probability distributions for the mass ratios of the components of a population of binary stars. In its documentation the random variable is denoted \(Q\) and a realization of that random variable is denoted \(q\).

Probability distributions

duquennoy1991	The mass-ratio random variable of Duquennoy and Mayor (1991)
moe2017	The mass-ratio random variable of Moe and Stefano (2017)
uniform	The mass-ratio random variable for uniform pairing

Classes

duquennoy1991_gen([momtype, a, b, xtol, ...])	The mass-ratio random variable of Duquennoy and Mayor (1991)
moe2017_gen([momtype, a, b, xtol, badvalue, ...])	The mass-ratio random variable of Moe and Stefano (2017)
uniform_gen([momtype, a, b, xtol, badvalue, ...])	The mass-ratio random variable for uniform pairing