Distance


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Luminosity

Return the luminosity distance<br><b>Input 1:</b> Redshift (float)<br><b>Input 2:</b> Dimensionless Hubble parameter today, h=H/100 (float)<br><b>Input 3:</b> Omega matter (float)<br><b>Input 4:</b> Omega lambda (float)<br><b>Output:</b> Distance in Mpc (float)

Test

The test form is only available for requests from the local machine.

SOAP

The following is a sample SOAP request and response. The placeholders shown need to be replaced with actual values.

POST /Cosmology/ws_v1_0/Distance.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: voservices.net
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
SOAPAction: "http://skyservice.pha.jhu.edu/Luminosity"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Body>
    <Luminosity xmlns="http://skyservice.pha.jhu.edu">
      <z>float</z>
      <hubble>float</hubble>
      <omega>float</omega>
      <lambda>float</lambda>
    </Luminosity>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Body>
    <LuminosityResponse xmlns="http://skyservice.pha.jhu.edu">
      <LuminosityResult>float</LuminosityResult>
    </LuminosityResponse>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>