SWIFTGalaxy

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SWIFTGalaxy is a module that extends SWIFTSimIO tailored to analyses of particles belonging to individual simulated galaxies. It inherits from and extends the functionality of the SWIFTDataset. It understands the output of a halo finder (supported: Velociraptor, Caesar; planned support: SOAP) and therefore which particles belong to a galaxy, and its integrated properties. The particles occupy a coordinate frame that is enforced to be consistent, such that particles loaded on-the-fly will match e.g. rotations and translations of particles already in memory. Intuitive masking of particle datasets is also enabled. Finally, some utilities to make working in cylindrical and spherical coordinate systems more convenient are also provided.

Documentation contents

• Getting Started
  • Requirements
  • Installing
  • Quick start
• Coordinate transformations
  • Recentering
  • Translations
  • Rotations
  • Box wrapping
  • Copying a coordinate system
• Additional coordinates
  • Spherical coordinates
  • Cylindrical coordinates
  • Cartesian coordinates
• Halo finders
  • SOAP
  • Caesar
  • Velociraptor
  • Other halo finders
  • Using swiftgalaxy without a halo catalogue
• Particle masking
  • Masking a SWIFTGalaxy
  • Masking individual SWIFTParticleDatasets
  • Masking particle arrays
  • Cookbook: all particles in a spherical aperture
• API Documentation
  • swiftgalaxy package
• Indices and tables

Citing SWIFTGalaxy

Note

swiftgalaxy will be listed on the ASCL after the first publication using it. Citation details will then be given here. In the meantime, if you publish a paper using swiftgalaxy, please get in touch at submission time!

Please also consider the citations requested for SWIFTSimIO.

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page