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mkommod - generate N-body system with anisotropic distribution function
mkommod in=in_file out=out_file [parameter=value] ... 
mkommod
generates N-body realizations of a spherical system with a spheroidal anisotropic
distribution function a la Osipkov-Merritt, using tables of radius, mass,
potential, and distribution function. 
The following parameters
are recognized. 
- in=in_file 
- Read input tables in binary from in_file, which
should contain an OsipkovMerrittModel data set.  Default: required. 
- out=out_file
- Write snapshot(s) to out_file in snapshot(5NEMO)
 form.  Default: required.
- nbody=num_bodies 
- Number of particles to generate per model. Default: 512.
- seed=random_seed 
- Seed used to initialize random number generator. Default:
123. 
- ftrun=mass_frac 
- To save time in the rejection phase, all particles
generated will lie within the radius containing a fraction mass_frac of
the total mass.  Since the d.f. is not truncated in energy, this amounts to
a slight bias in the orbital phases of a few outlying particles. Default:
0.999. 
- zerocm=zero_flag 
- If true, zero center of mass of generated model(s).
Default: true. 
- nmodel=num_models 
- Number of models to generate, written one
after the other to out_file.  Default: 1. 
- headline=message 
- Message prepended
to out_file. 
- epsilon=epsilon 
- Small number that controls potential roundoff
problems in f(E) [Default: 1.0e-10]. 
snapshot(5NEMO)
Binney & Tremaine (1987), pp.240
Osipkov, L.P. 1979, Soviet Astron Lett, 5, 42.
Merritt, D. 1985, AJ, 90, 1027.
LIMEPY: https://github.com/mgieles/limepy
$NEMODAT/k?isot.dat     isotropic King models
$NEMODAT/k?an??.dat     anisotropic King models
$NEMODAT/plum.dat       isotropic Plummer model
Joshua E. Barnes 
22-may-88    V1.x created/documented       JEB
5-jul-97    V2.0 added epsilon, some code cleanup    PJT
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