galpy.orbit.Orbit.wz

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

NAME:

wz

PURPOSE:

calculate the vertical angle

INPUT:

pot - potential

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

  1. ‘adiabatic’

  2. ‘staeckel’

  3. ‘isochroneApprox’

  4. ‘spherical’

+actionAngle module setup kwargs

OUTPUT:

wz [*input_shape]

HISTORY:

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