galpy is a python package for galactic dynamics. It supports orbit integration in a variety of potentials, evaluating and sampling various distribution functions, and the calculation of action-angle coordinates for all static potentials.
Please let me (bovy -at- ias.edu) know if you make use of galpy in a publication.
Uses what later became the orbit integration routines and Dehnen and Shu disk distribution functions.
Employs galpy orbit integration in galpy.potential.MWPotential to characterize the orbits in the SEGUE G dwarf sample.
Uses galpy.potential force and density routines to characterize the difference between the vertical force and the surface density at large heights above the MW midplane.
Utilizes the Dehnen distribution function to inform a simple model of the velocity distribution of APOGEE stars in the Milky Way disk and to create mock data.
Makes use of potential models, the adiabatic and Staeckel actionAngle modules, and the quasiisothermal DF to model the dynamics of the SEGUE G dwarf sample in mono-abundance bins.
Uses galpy for orbit integration of pulsars kicked out of the Galactic center.
Employs galpy to perform orbit integrations in galpy.potential.MWPotential to characterize the orbits of stars in the APOGEE sample.
Introduces galpy.df.streamdf and galpy.actionAngle.actionAngleIsochroneApprox for modeling tidal streams using simple models formulated in action-angle space (see the tutorial above).
Uses galpy.potential functions to calculate the acceleration field of the best-fit potential in Bovy & Rix (2013) above.
If you use galpy in a publication, please cite Bovy (2015) and link to http://github.com/jobovy/galpy. Please also send me a reference to the paper or send a pull request including your paper in the list of galpy papers on this page (this page is at doc/source/index.rst). Thanks!
When using the galpy.actionAngle.actionAngleAdiabatic and galpy.actionAngle.actionAngleStaeckel modules, please cite 2013ApJ...779..115B in addition to the papers describing the algorithm used. When using galpy.actionAngle.actionAngleIsochroneApprox, please cite arXiv/1401.2985, which introduced this technique.