[AstroPy] ANN: galpy v1.1 released

[Jo Bovy]

Dear colleagues,

I am happy to announce release v1.1 of galpy, a python package for galactic
and MW dynamics. You are receiving this email because I believe this may be
of interest to you. Documentation (including detailed installation
instructions) can be found here: http://galpy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/.
The code is available on github (http://github.com/jobovy/galpy) and can be
installed from there or using pip.

Version 1.1 contains all development since the version 1.0 release last
December. A full list of changes can be found here: http://bit.ly/1HuIsTb;
some of the major improvements are:

- Full Python 3 support;

- The ability to ingest a N-body snapshot, build an axisymmetric
approximation to its potential, and then use that potential like any galpy
potential (e.g., to calculate orbits and actions). Mostly added by Rok
Roskar;

- Support for converting galpy potentials to NEMO potentials, including a
full implementation of galpy's default MW potential for use in NEMO.

- Various new potentials: a disk-like Staeckel potential (Kuzmin-Kutuzov;
added by Wilma Trick), the Plummer potential, and a
3-Miyamoto-Nagai-potential approximation to an exponential disk.


Please report issues by reporting them on github (the preferred method)

http://github.com/jobovy/galpy/issues

or by emailing me. Please let me know if you are using the code so I can
keep you informed of any major updates.

Thanks,

Jo
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