galpy.potential.Potential.plotEscapecurve

Potential.plotEscapecurve(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Plot the escape velocity curve for this potential (in the z=0 plane for non-spherical potentials).

Parameters:
  • Rrange (float or Quantity, optional) – Range to plot. Default: [0.01, 2.] * ro.

  • grid (int, optional) – Number of points to plot. Default: 1001.

  • savefilename (str, optional) – Save to or restore from this savefile (pickle).

  • *args – Arguments and keyword arguments for galpy.util.plot.plot.

  • **kwargs – Arguments and keyword arguments for galpy.util.plot.plot.

Returns:

Plot to output device.

Return type:

matplotlib.pyplot.axis

Notes

  • 2010-08-08 - Written - Bovy (NYU).