N-body simulations: Gadget

Pylians provides the routine density_field_gadget that simplifies the construction of 3D density fields from Gadget snapshots.

Note

This routine should also work smoothly with AREPO & GIZMO snapshots.

The arguments of this routine are:

  • snapshot. This is the name of the gadget snapshot. Pylians supports formats 1, 2 and hdf5. Set it as 'snap_001', even if the files are 'snap_001.0', 'snap_001.1', … or 'snap_001.0.hdf5', 'snap_001.1.hdf5'.

  • grid. The constructed density field will be a 3D float numpy array with :math: grid*^3`` voxels. The larger this number the higher the resolution, but more memory will be used.

  • ptypes. Particle type over which compute the density field. It can be individual types, [0] (gas), [1] (cold dark matter), [2] (neutrinos), [3] (particle type 3), [4] (stars), [5] (black holes), or combinations. E.g. [0,1] (gas+cold dark matter), [0,4] (gas+stars), [0,1,2,4] (gas+CDM+neutrinos+stars). For all components (total matter) use [0,1,2,3,4,5] or [-1].

  • MAS. Mass-assignment scheme used to deposit particles mass to the grid. Options are: 'NGP' (nearest grid point), 'CIC' (cloud-in-cell), 'TSC' (triangular-shape cloud), 'PCS' (piecewise cubic spline). For most applications 'CIC' is enough.

  • do_RSD. If True, particles positions will be moved to redshift-space along the axis axis.

  • axis. Axis along which redshift-space distortions will be implemented (only needed if do_RSD=True): 0, 1 or 2 for x-axis, y-axis or z-axis, respectively.

  • verbose. Whether to print some information on the routine progress.

This is an example of how to use this routine:

import numpy as np
import MAS_library as MASL

snapshot = 'snapdir_010/snap_010'  #snapshot name
grid     = 512                     #grid size
ptypes   = [1,2]                   #CDM + neutrinos
MAS      = 'CIC'                   #Cloud-in-Cell
do_RSD   = False                   #dont do redshif-space distortions
axis     = 0                       #axis along which place RSD; not used here
verbose  = True   #whether print information on the progress

# Compute the effective number of particles/mass in each voxel
delta = MASL.density_field_gadget(snapshot, ptypes, grid, MAS, do_RSD, axis, verbose)

# compute density contrast: delta = rho/<rho> - 1
delta /= np.mean(delta, dtype=np.float64);  delta -= 1.0