galpy.orbit.Orbit.rguiding

Orbit.rguiding(*args, **kwargs)

NAME:

rguiding

PURPOSE:

calculate the guiding-center radius (the radius of a circular orbit with the same angular momentum)

INPUT:

pot= potential instance or list of such instances

ro= (Object-wide default) physical scale for distances to use to convert (can be Quantity)

vo= (Object-wide default) physical scale for velocities to use to convert (can be Quantity)

use_physical= use to override Object-wide default for using a physical scale for output

OUTPUT:

R_guiding [*input_shape,nt]

HISTORY:

2019-03-02 - Written as thin wrapper around Potential.rl - Bovy (UofT)