harmonic_oscillator_to_aa

gala.dynamics.harmonic_oscillator_to_aa(w, potential)[source]

Transform the input cartesian position and velocity to action-angle coordinates for the Harmonic Oscillator potential.

This transformation is analytic and can be used as a “toy potential” in the Sanders & Binney (2014) formalism for computing action-angle coordinates in any potential.

Note

This function is included as a method of the HarmonicOscillatorPotential and it is recommended to call action_angle() instead.

Parameters
wgala.dynamics.PhaseSpacePosition, gala.dynamics.Orbit
potentialPotential