Source code for gala.coordinates.galactocentric

# Third-party
import astropy.coordinates as coord
import astropy.units as u

__all__ = ['get_galactocentric2019']


[docs]def get_galactocentric2019(): """ References ---------- Galactic center sky position: - `Reid & Brunthaler (2004) <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004ApJ...616..872R/abstract>`_ Galactic center distance: - `GRAVITY collaboration (2018) <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018A%26A...615L..15G/abstract>`_ Solar velocity: - `Drimmel & Poggio (2018) <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018RNAAS...2d.210D/abstract>`_ - `Reid & Brunthaler (2004) <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004ApJ...616..872R/abstract>`_ - `GRAVITY collaboration (2018) <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018A%26A...615L..15G/abstract>`_ Solar height above midplane: - `Bennett & Bovy (2019) <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019MNRAS.482.1417B/abstract>`_ Returns ------- galcen_frame : `~astropy.coordinates.Galactocentric` The modern (2019) Galactocentric reference frame. """ with coord.galactocentric_frame_defaults.set('v4.0'): galcen = coord.Galactocentric() return galcen