find_actions¶
-
gala.dynamics.
find_actions
(orbit, N_max, force_harmonic_oscillator=False, toy_potential=None)[source]¶ Find approximate actions and angles for samples of a phase-space orbit. Uses toy potentials with known, analytic action-angle transformations to approximate the true coordinates as a Fourier sum.
This code is adapted from Jason Sanders’ genfunc
- Parameters
- orbit
Orbit
- N_maxint
Maximum integer Fourier mode vector length, \(|\boldsymbol{n}|\).
- force_harmonic_oscillatorbool (optional)
Force using the harmonic oscillator potential as the toy potential.
- toy_potentialPotential (optional)
Fix the toy potential class.
- orbit
- Returns
- aafdict
A Python dictionary containing the actions, angles, frequencies, and value of the generating function and derivatives for each integer vector. Each value of the dictionary is a
numpy.ndarray
orastropy.units.Quantity
.