Gala is a Python package for Galactic and gravitational dynamics.
The documentation for Gala is hosted on Read the docs.
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.
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
@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}
}
Copyright 2013-2019 Adrian Price-Whelan and contributors.
Gala is free software made available under the MIT License. For details see
the LICENSE file.
See the AUTHORS.rst file for a complete list of contributors to the project.