AGAMA: Action-based galaxy modelling architecture
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Agama is a publicly available software library for a broad range of applications in the field of stellar dynamics. It provides methods for computing the gravitational potential of arbitrary analytic density profiles or N-body models; orbit integration and analysis; transformations between position/velocity and action/angle variables; distribution functions expressed in terms of actions and their moments; iterative construction of self-consistent multicomponent galaxy models. Applications include the inference about the structure of Milky Way or other galaxies from observations of stellar kinematics; preparation of equilibrium initial conditions for N-body simulations; analysis of snapshots from simulations. The library is written in C++, provides a Python interface, and can be coupled to other stellar-dynamical software: Amuse, Galpy and Nemo.
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