galpy.orbit.Orbit.from_name

classmethod Orbit.from_name(*args, **kwargs)

NAME:

from_name

PURPOSE:

given the name of an object or a list of names, retrieve coordinate information for that object from SIMBAD and return a corresponding orbit

INPUT:

name - the name of the object or list of names; when loading a collection of objects (like ‘mwglobularclusters’), lists are not allowed

+standard Orbit initialization keywords:

ro= distance from vantage point to GC (kpc; can be Quantity)

vo= circular velocity at ro (km/s; can be Quantity)

zo= offset toward the NGP of the Sun wrt the plane (kpc; can be Quantity; default = 20.8 pc from Bennett & Bovy 2019)

solarmotion= ‘hogg’ or ‘dehnen’, or ‘schoenrich’, or value in [-U,V,W]; can be Quantity

OUTPUT:

orbit containing the phase space coordinates of the named object

HISTORY:

2018-07-15 - Written - Mathew Bub (UofT)

2019-05-21 - Generalized to multiple objects and incorporated into Orbits - Bovy (UofT)