galpy.orbit.Orbit.jz

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

NAME:

jz

PURPOSE:

calculate the vertical action

INPUT:

pot - potential

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

  1. ‘adiabatic’

  2. ‘staeckel’

  3. ‘isochroneApprox’

  4. ‘spherical’

+actionAngle module setup kwargs

ro= (Object-wide default) physical scale for distances to use to convert (can be Quantity)

vo= (Object-wide default) physical scale for velocities to use to convert (can be Quantity)

use_physical= use to override Object-wide default for using a physical scale for output

OUTPUT:

jz [*input_shape]

HISTORY:

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