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galpy.orbit.Orbit.rperi

Orbit.rperi(analytic=False, pot=None, **kwargs)

NAME:

rperi

PURPOSE:

calculate the pericenter radius

INPUT:

analytic - compute this analytically

pot - potential to use for analytical calculation

ro= (Object-wide default) physical scale for distances to use to convert

use_physical= use to override Object-wide default for using a physical scale for output

OUTPUT:

R_peri

HISTORY:

2010-09-20 - Written - Bovy (NYU)