adrn / 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.

If you are on Linux or Mac, you can install with conda using the conda-forge channel:

conda install gala --channel conda-forge

If you prefer pip, or if you are on Windows, you can also install using pip:

pip install 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 Sipőcz and
                  Daniel Lenz and
                  Johnny Greco and
                  Syrtis Major and
                  Sergey Koposov and
                  Semyeong Oh and
                  P. L. Lim},
  title        = {adrn/gala: v1.3},
  month        = oct,
  year         = 2020,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {v1.3},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.4159870},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.593786}
}

License

Copyright 2013-2020 Adrian Price-Whelan and contributors.

Gala is free software made available under the MIT License. For details see the LICENSE file.

Contributors

See the AUTHORS.rst file for a complete list of contributors to the project.