Sagittarius¶

class gala.coordinates.Sagittarius(*args, **kwargs)[source]¶

A Heliocentric spherical coordinate system defined by the orbit of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, as described in Majewski et al. 2003 (see: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003ApJ...599.1082M) and further explained at this website.

For more information about this class, see the Astropy documentation on Coordinate Frames.

Parameters:

representation : BaseRepresentation or None

A representation object or None to have no data (or use the other keywords)

Lambda : angle_like, optional, must be keyword

The longitude-like angle corresponding to Sagittarius’ orbit.

Beta : angle_like, optional, must be keyword

The latitude-like angle corresponding to Sagittarius’ orbit.

distance : Quantity, optional, must be keyword

The Distance for this object along the line-of-sight.

Attributes Summary

`default_representation`
`frame_specific_representation_info`
`name`

Attributes Documentation