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galpy: A python Library for Galactic Dynamics

  • Authors: Jo Bovy

Bovy 2015 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 216 29.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Methods of Potential instances in galpy, illustrated using a double-exponential disk potential with ln ρ(R, z) = −R/hr − |z|/hz + constant, normalized to have a circular velocity of 1 at R = 1. All of the outputs are in natural units (see Section 2.2). The flattening is defined as .

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