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Gala is a Python package for Galactic and gravitational dynamics.
|Affiliated package| |Coverage Status| |Build status| |CodSpeed| |SPEC 0|
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 uv.
Gala can be installed with pip (with uv or standalone)::
pip install gala
You can also add gala as a dependency to your environment with::
uv add gala
See the installation instructions <http://gala.adrian.pw/en/latest/install.html>_ in the
documentation <http://gala.adrian.pw>__ for more information.
Gala follows SPEC 0 <https://scientific-python.org/specs/spec-0000/>_ for its
minimum supported versions of Python and core dependencies (e.g., numpy, scipy):
support for a Python version is dropped 3 years after its initial release, and
support for a core dependency version is dropped 2 years after its initial release.
Attribution
|JOSS| |DOI|
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.
