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Gala is a Python package for Galactic and gravitational dynamics.

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Documentation

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The documentation for Gala is hosted on Read the docs <http://gala.adrian.pw>__.

Installation and Dependencies

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The easiest way to get Gala is to install with pip or conda.

The recommended install method is to use pip::

pip install gala

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

conda install gala --channel conda-forge

See the installation instructions <http://gala.adrian.pw/en/latest/install.html>_ in the documentation <http://gala.adrian.pw>__ for more information.

Attribution

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If you make use of this code, please cite the JOSS <http://joss.theoj.org>_ 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 cite the Zenodo DOI |DOI| as a software citation - see the documentation <http://gala.adrian.pw/en/latest/index.html#citation-and-attribution>_ for up to date citation information.

License

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Copyright 2013-2024 Adrian Price-Whelan and contributors.

Gala is free software made available under the MIT License. For details see the LICENSE <https://github.com/adrn/gala/blob/main/LICENSE>_ file.

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Contributors

See the AUTHORS.rst <https://github.com/adrn/gala/blob/main/AUTHORS.rst>_ file for a complete list of contributors to the project.