Michael Petersen's Projects
Gaussian Mixture Modelling of the Inner Milky Way with APOGEE
Julia package for the analysis of stellar cluster models (like simulated globulars)!
Packages for calculating orbit commensurabilities.
C++ routine collection for analyzing EXP
Draw ellipses on images.
Tools for analysis of N-body models.
Procedurally generated html journal system for keeping track of research.
Scripts to generate figures for the Linear Response calculations in Petersen et al. (2024)
Efficient random sampling via linear interpolation.
About me
My research webpage: https://michael-petersen.github.io
Pedagogical Gaia examples
Python astronomical image reduction software.
Rotating and anisotropic Plummer models
Reproduce reflex motion results from Petersen & Peñarrubia (2021).
Data files, code, and Jupyter notebooks for paper on frequency of bars in spiral galaxies, using S4G data
Reproduce Peñarrubia & Petersen (2021) Sgr results.
Statistical measures of similarity between one-dimensional distributions.
Simple spherical basis function expansion tools.
Numerically determine the fundamental frequencies of an orbit
Compute the centroid of a distribution of particles on a unit sphere.