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zpenoyre edited this page Aug 4, 2017 · 2 revisions

Welcome to the illustrisAPI wiki!

This isn't fully written yet. Some useful data can be found on the readme, particularly about package requirements.

The sidebar contains a rundown of the functions in the package, as well as notes on how to save data to file (rather than redownloading it) and the naming conventions used throughout.

More to come! Let me know if you hit bugs/ features you want to see.

Home

General Concepts

Intro to the Data An overview of the structure of the data and how best to use it

Installing and troubleshooting Quick rundown of what's needed to run the package and some common problems

Unit Conversion All values returned are converted to a user-specified unit system (default SI)

Naming Conventions OLD! - most useful information moved to Intro to the Data

Saving to File To save some download time data can be saved to file and accessed offline

Commands

getGalaxy Returns some properties of particles in a galaxy (i.e. a subhalo)

getSubhaloData Returns all properties of a particular subhalo

getHaloData Returns all properties of a particular halo

getSubhaloField Returns a single property of all subhalos

getHaloField Returns a single property of all halos

getSimData Returns general properties of a given simulation (including a conversion table for times, redshifts and snapshot numbers)

getSnapData Returns general properties for a given snapshot

getTree Returns the indexes needed to follow the galaxy, and it's mergers, across time

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