This is yt_astro_analysis, the yt extension package for astrophysical analysis. This package contains functionality for:
- Halo finding and analysis
- Lightcones
- Planning cosmological simulations for making lightcones and lightrays
- Exporting to the RADMC-3D radiation transport code
- Creating PPV FITS cubes
This is primarily machinery that used to be in yt's analysis_modules. These were made into a separate package to allow yt to become less astro-specifc and to allow these modules to be developed on their own schedule.
Full installation documentation can also be found here.
Get the latest release via pip as
python -m pip install yt-astro-analysis
Or with conda, as
conda install -c conda-forge yt-astro-analysis
Note, the package name is spelled with hyphens (yt-astro-analysis
)
when installing from pip or conda. With pip, the package name can be
spelled with either hyphens or underscores, but with conda it must
always be hyphens.
To build yt_astro_analysis
from source, clone the git repository and install
as
git clone https://github.com/yt-project/yt_astro_analysis
cd yt_astro_analysis
python -m pip install -e .
In order to run the Rockstar halo finder from within yt_astro_analysis, it is
necessary to install yt_astro_analysis from source.
You will need to install rockstar-galaxies
from either
John Wise's
repository or Peter
Behroozi's
repository. To
install Rockstar, do the following:
git clone https://bitbucket.org/jwise77/rockstar-galaxies
cd rockstar-galaxies
make lib
Then, go into the yt_astro_analysis source directory and add a file called "rockstar.cfg" with the path the Rockstar repo you just cloned. Then, install yt_astro_analysis.
cd yt_astro_analysis
echo <path_to_rockstar> > rockstar.cfg
python -m pip install -e .
Finally, you'll need to make sure that the location of
librockstar-galaxies.so
is in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:<path_to_rockstar>
For every module that was moved from yt's analysis_modules to yt_astro_analysis,
all imports can be changed simply by substituting yt.analysis_modules
with
yt.extensions.astro_analysis
. For example, the following
from yt.analysis_modules.ppv_cube.api import PPVCube
becomes
from yt.extensions.astro_analysis.ppv_cube.api import PPVCube
We really want your contributions! As an official yt-project extension, everything in the yt Contributor Guide applies here.
If you'd rather make your own standalone package, we want to support that, too! Please, consider making your package a yt extension.
As an extension of the yt-project, the yt resources are available for help.
- The latest documentation can be found at https://yt-astro-analysis.readthedocs.io/