Galactic Spin Workshop 1 - The Basics of Rotation Curves
The purpose of this workshop is to guide the user through the fundamental aspects of spiral galaxies’ rotation curves. This includes discussing what a rotation curve is, plotting the measured rotational velocities, constructing a rotation curve model for each component of the galaxy, calculating total rotation, and fitting the total curve to the measured data. The workshop includes rotation curve calculations of the dark matter halo, bulge, and a central supermassive black hole component. We use the models by Casertano, Noordermeer, and Jimenez when modeling components of the rotation curve. All other components are imported from the SPARC (Spitzer Photometry and Accurate Rotation Curves) database.
The documentation does not contain a review of the physics implemented in the library.
If you want to contribute to galactic-spin-W1, please check out the contribution guidelines.