geoArea.CMBDataFrame: Geodesic area covered by a 'CMBDataFrame'
In rcosmo: Cosmic Microwave Background Data Analysis

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

Gives the surface on the unit sphere that is encompassed by all pixels in cmbdf

1 2	## S3 method for class 'CMBDataFrame' geoArea(x)

`x`	a CMBDataFrame.

The sum of the areas of all pixels (rows) in x.

## At low resolution, a few data points can
## occupy a large pixel area, e.g.:

cmbdf <- CMBDataFrame(nside = 1, spix = c(1,2,3))
pix(cmbdf)

## The total number of Healpix points at nside=1 equals 12. As cmbdf has 3 Healpix
## it occupies pi = 1/4*(surface area of unit sphere)

geoArea(cmbdf)
plot(cmbdf, size = 5, hp.boundaries = 1)