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href="http://github.com/astropy/astropy/tree/v0.2.4/astropy/cosmology/funcs.py#L228" title="Push the Edit button on the next page"><span class="edit-on-github viewcode-link"> [edit on github]</span></a><a class="reference internal" href="../_modules/astropy/cosmology/funcs.html#luminosity_distance"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#astropy.cosmology.funcs.luminosity_distance" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Luminosity distance in Mpc at redshift <tt class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">z</span></tt>.</p> <p>This is the distance to use when converting between the bolometric flux from an object at redshift <tt class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">z</span></tt> and its bolometric luminosity.</p> <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> <col class="field-name" /> <col class="field-body" /> <tbody valign="top"> <tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters :</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first"><strong>z</strong> : array_like</p> <blockquote> <div><p>Input redshifts.</p> </div></blockquote> </td> </tr> <tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Returns :</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first"><strong>lumdist</strong> : ndarray, or float if input scalar</p> <blockquote class="last"> <div><p>Angular diameter distance at each input redshift.</p> </div></blockquote> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </dd></dl> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sphinxsidebar"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"><h3>Page Contents</h3> <ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#">luminosity_distance</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> <footer class="footer"> <p class="pull-right"> <a href="../_sources/_generated/astropy.cosmology.funcs.luminosity_distance.txt" rel="nofollow">Page Source</a> <a href="#">Back to Top</a></p> <p> © Copyright 2011-2013, The Astropy Developers.<br/> 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