[yt-users] Minimum Halo Mass

Stephen Skory stephenskory at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 18 10:16:37 PDT 2010


Brian,

> Does anyone know of a clever way to plot only halos above a certain minimum 
>mass?  I would like to continue finding all the halos located with HaloFinder, 
>but plotting all of them is overwhelming the projections that I've been making.  
>Any structure is essentially invisible, as the image is nearly solid black due 
>to all the plotted halos.  



the parameter you want is "min_size", which gives the smallest number of 
particles in a halo that will be plotted. This function should be documented 
better by me, sorry:

http://yt.enzotools.org/doc/api/generated/callback_list/yt.raven.Callbacks.HopCircleCallback.html?highlight=hopcircle#yt.raven.Callbacks.HopCircleCallback


or http://tinyurl.com/3ykb9f7 if broken above.
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