galpy.orbit.Orbit.wp

Orbit.wp(pot=None, **kwargs)[source]

NAME:

wp

PURPOSE:

calculate the azimuthal angle

INPUT:

pot - potential

type= (‘staeckel’) type of actionAngle module to use

  1. ‘adiabatic’
  2. ‘staeckel’
  3. ‘isochroneApprox’
  4. ‘spherical’

+actionAngle module setup kwargs

OUTPUT:

wp [*input_shape]

HISTORY:

2019-02-27 - Written - Bovy (UofT)