Tutorials

The tutorials listed below are meant to be step-by-step demonstrations of common functionality in gala. If you are interested in contributing a tutorial, or requesting a tutorial about material that is not covered here, please open an issue on GitHub.

• Integrate an orbit with uncertainties in Milky Way model
• Integrating and plotting an orbit in an NFW potential
• Compute a Galactic orbit for a star using Gaia data
• Integrating orbits in a barred galaxy potential
• Generating a mock stellar stream and converting to Heliocentric coordinates
• Circular restricted three-body problem
• Building custom spherical potential models with spline interpolation
• Compute an SCF representation of an arbitrary density distribution
• Using EXP potentials with Gala
• Generate a mock stellar stream with a realistic mass-loss history
• Working with time-evolving potential models
• What’s New in Gala v1.11