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galpy.orbit.Orbit.integrate

Orbit.integrate(t, pot, method='leapfrog_c')

NAME:

integrate

PURPOSE:

integrate the orbit

INPUT:

t - list of times at which to output (0 has to be in this!)

pot - potential instance or list of instances

method= ‘odeint’ for scipy’s odeint or ‘leapfrog’ for a simple leapfrog implementation

OUTPUT:

(none) (get the actual orbit using getOrbit()

HISTORY:

2010-07-10 - Written - Bovy (NYU)