Gala

Gala is a Python package for Galactic astronomy and gravitational dynamics. The bulk of the package centers around implementations of gravitational potentials, numerical integration, and nonlinear dynamics.

The package is being actively developed in a public repository on GitHub so if you have any trouble, open an issue there.

Documentation

• Installation
  • Cloning, Building, Installing
  • Dependencies
• Conventions
  • Common variable names
  • Array shapes
  • Energy and momentum

Subpackages

• Coordinate Systems (gala.coordinates)
  • Introduction
  • Getting Started
  • Using gala.coordinates
  • API
• Integration (gala.integrate)
  • Introduction
  • Getting Started
  • API
• Gravitational potentials (gala.potential)
  • Introduction
  • Getting started: built-in potential classes
  • Using gala.potential
  • API
• Dynamics (gala.dynamics)
  • Introduction
  • Getting started: Working with orbits
  • Using gala.dynamics
• Unit Systems (gala.units)
  • Introduction
  • Unit Systems
  • API
• Misc. Utilities (gala.util)
  • Introduction
  • API

Tutorials

• Integrating and plotting an orbit in an NFW potential