actionAngleSpherical¶
- class galpy.actionAngle.actionAngleSpherical(*args, **kwargs)[source]¶
Action-angle formalism for spherical potentials
- __init__(*args, **kwargs)[source]¶
NAME:
__init__
PURPOSE:
initialize an actionAngleSpherical object
INPUT:
pot= a Spherical potential
ro= distance from vantage point to GC (kpc; can be Quantity)
vo= circular velocity at ro (km/s; can be Quantity)
_gamma= (default=0.) replace Lz by Lz+gamma Jz in effective potential when using this class as part of actionAngleAdiabatic
OUTPUT:
instance
HISTORY:
2013-12-28 - Written - Bovy (IAS)