Axisymmetrized N-body snapshot potential

class galpy.potential.SnapshotRZPotential(s, num_threads=None, nazimuths=4, ro=None, vo=None)[source]

Class that implements an axisymmetrized version of the potential of an N-body snapshot (requires pynbody)

_evaluate, _Rforce, and _zforce calculate a hash for the array of points that is passed in by the user. The hash and corresponding potential/force arrays are stored – if a subsequent request matches a previously computed hash, the previous results are returned and not recalculated.

__init__(s, num_threads=None, nazimuths=4, ro=None, vo=None)[source]

NAME:

__init__

PURPOSE:

Initialize a SnapshotRZ potential object

INPUT:

s - a simulation snapshot loaded with pynbody

num_threads= (4) number of threads to use for calculation

nazimuths= (4) number of azimuths to average over

ro=, vo= distance and velocity scales for translation into internal units (default from configuration file)

OUTPUT:

instance

HISTORY:

2013 - Written - Rok Roskar (ETH)

2014-11-24 - Edited for merging into main galpy - Bovy (IAS)