@copilot Please also change MWPotential2014's definition to a CompositePotential and also those of all of the MW potentials in mwpotentials.py to CompositePotentials.

To support C integration, ...

Done in commit 1bc3edd. Changed MWPotential2014 and _MWPotential to CompositePotential instances in mwpotentials.py. The other MW potentials (McMillan17, Cautun20, Irrgang13*, DehnenBinney98*) are lazily loaded and already use the + operator, so they automatically return CompositePotential now.

For the _parse_pot changes in integrateFullOrbit.py, I'll work on that in a follow-up commit once we confirm this approach works correctly.

@copilot Also implement the handling of CompositePotential in _parse_pot in integrateFullOrbit.py, so these can be passed to C for orbit integration properly

Implemented in commit 8dea636. Added CompositePotential handling at the start of _parse_pot:

if isinstance(pot, potential.CompositePotential.CompositePotential):
    pot = list(pot)

This extracts the internal list from CompositePotential so the rest of the parsing logic works unchanged. Tested successfully with MWPotential2014.

@copilot Please also implement the mul and div functions for CompositePotential in the way that makes sense (should apply to each component potential). And please test (maybe add a test) that all methods of Force and Potential can be called on a CompositePotential using MWPotential2014 as an example.

@copilot Please also implement the mul and div functions for CompositePotential in the way that makes sense (should apply to each component potential). And please test (maybe add a test) that ...

Implemented in commit e6313e2. Added __mul__, __rmul__, __div__, and __truediv__ methods to CompositePotential that apply the operation to each component potential. Also added test_CompositePotential_mul_div and test_CompositePotential_all_methods tests that verify multiplication/division and that all Force and Potential methods can be called on MWPotential2014.

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@copilot Lots of tests are failing, some at least because the new CompositePotential objects are not being converted to planarPotentials correctly. So please edit the code in planarPotential.py to also handle CompositePotential objects in the different routines to create a planarPotential (there's a routine for RZPotentials and one for general potentials I believe). In general, it may be worthwhile to see where lists are mentioned in galpy and check whether these are lists of potentials, because in that case CompositePotential objects will now also have to be handled.

Also implement item assignment for CompositePotential so things like

MWPotential2014[2]*= 1.5

work as expected (that is, the new CompositePotential has the same components as the input MWPotential2014, but with the amplitude of the second entry raised by 50%).

Remember to install pre-commit!

Thanks!

@copilot Lots of tests are failing, some at least because the new CompositePotential objects are not being converted to planarPotentials correctly. So please edit the code in planarPotential.py to als...

Implemented in commit 1684841:

Planar/Vertical Potential Conversion:

• Updated toPlanarPotential and toVerticalPotential to handle CompositePotential by converting to list first
• All planar/vertical conversion tests pass

Item Assignment:

• Implemented __setitem__ for CompositePotential
• MWPotential2014[2] *= 1.5 now works as expected, modifying the amplitude of the second component

Tests Added:

• test_CompositePotential_setitem - verifies item assignment works correctly
• test_CompositePotential_planar_conversion - verifies planar potential conversion works

All CompositePotential tests pass (8/8).