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)