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docs: correct sigma_LT/sigma_0 attribution in dPIE docstrings
The sqrt(3/2) relation between Lenstool's fiducial dispersion (sigma_LT) and
the central dispersion (sigma_0) was attributed to Elíasdóttir et al. (2007)
as if it were that paper's physical definition. Per the contributed
derivation note (H. Ding 2026, "On the definitions of b0 and velocity
dispersion in Lenstool / dPIE"), it is Lenstool's parameter convention:
Lenstool computes b0 = 6*pia_c2*sigma^2 (an E07-style coefficient) but
evaluates deflections with the Kassiola & Kovner (1993) / Limousin et al.
(2005) amplitude, so the input sigma must be read through the L05
parameterization. Docstrings now state this, and give the equivalent
central-dispersion form b0 = 4*648000*(sigma_0/c)^2*(D_LS/D_S).
No numerical behaviour changes — documentation only; the sigma_LT
parameterization is retained deliberately for Lenstool results-table parity.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012Eacj9naBWSKrevsqnVJWR
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