actionAngleIsochrone¶
- class galpy.actionAngle.actionAngleIsochrone(*args, **kwargs)[source]¶
Action-angle formalism for the isochrone potential, on the Jphi, Jtheta system of Binney & Tremaine (2008)
- __init__(*args, **kwargs)[source]¶
- NAME:
__init__
- PURPOSE:
initialize an actionAngleIsochrone object
- INPUT:
Either:
b= scale parameter of the isochrone parameter (can be Quantity)
ip= instance of a IsochronePotential
ro= distance from vantage point to GC (kpc; can be Quantity)
vo= circular velocity at ro (km/s; can be Quantity)
OUTPUT:
instance
- HISTORY:
2013-09-08 - Written - Bovy (IAS)