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Galactic and gravitational dynamics in Python

License: MIT License

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Gala

Gala is a Python package for Galactic and gravitational dynamics.

Documentation

The documentation for Gala is hosted on Read the docs.

Installation and Dependencies

The easiest way to get Gala is to install with conda or pip. To install with conda, use the conda-forge channel:

conda install astro-gala --channel conda-forge

To install with pip:

pip install astro-gala

See the installation instructions in the documentation for more information.

Attribution

If you make use of this code, please cite the JOSS paper:

@article{gala,
  doi = {10.21105/joss.00388},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.21105%2Fjoss.00388},
  year = 2017,
  month = {oct},
  publisher = {The Open Journal},
  volume = {2},
  number = {18},
  author = {Adrian M. Price-Whelan},
  title = {Gala: A Python package for galactic dynamics},
  journal = {The Journal of Open Source Software}
}

Please also consider citing the Zenodo DOI as a software citation:

@misc{gala:zenodo,
  author       = {Adrian Price-Whelan and
                  Brigitta Sipocz and
                  Daniel Lenz and
                  Johnny Greco and
                  Syrtis Major and
                  Semyeong Oh and
                  P. L. Lim},
  title        = {adrn/gala: v1.0},
  month        = apr,
  year         = 2019,
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.2638307},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2638307}
}