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TM: Torus Mapper
TM (Torus Mapper) produces models for orbits in action-angle coordinates in axisymmetric potentials using torus mapping, a non-perturbative technique for creating orbital tori for specified values of the action integrals. It can compute a star's position at any time given an orbital torus and a star’s position at a reference time, and also provides a way to choose initial conditions for N-body simulations of realistic disc galaxies that start in perfect equilibrium. TM provides some advantages over use of a standard time-stepper to create orbits.
- Code site:
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https://github.com/PaulMcMillan-Astro/Torus
- Described in:
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https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016MNRAS.456.1982B
- Bibcode:
- 2015ascl.soft12014B