jluastro / PopSyCLE

Population Synthesis for Compact-object Lensing Events
https://popsycle.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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coordinate systems #43

Open caseylam opened 1 year ago

caseylam commented 1 year ago

This is mostly a note to self, but Galactocentric coordinate (as implemented in astropy) is NOT the same as the heliocentric coordinates in PopSyCLE (which comes from Galaxia). Main difference is the coordinate center I think (GC vs Sun).