[AstroPy] Gala v1.0 released

Adrian Price-Whelan adrianmpw at gmail.com
Tue Apr 16 11:58:00 EDT 2019


Gala is an Astropy affiliated package for Galactic dynamics. Most of
its functionality centers around implementations of gravitational
potential models, numerical orbit integration, stellar stream
modeling, and nonlinear dynamics, and all works natively with
astropy.units and astropy.coordinates.

You can read more about Gala and see examples and tutorials in the
documentation:
http://gala.adrian.pw/en/stable/

v1.0 contains many new features, including:
- great circle coordinate frames that work with astropy coordinates
- new potential models, including MWPotential2014 from galpy
- SCF (basis function expansion) flexible potential representations
- new stellar stream coordinate frames
You can read more about these new features in the What's New documentation:
http://gala.adrian.pw/en/stable/whatsnew/1.0.html


To install or update the latest version (v1.0), you can use conda or
pip. For example:

conda install -c conda-forge astro-gala

or

pip install astro-gala

Please report and issues or suggest new features through the issue
tracker on GitHub:

https://github.com/adrn/gala/issues


thanks!
- Adrian

-- 
Adrian M. Price-Whelan
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow
Princeton University
http://adrn.github.io


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