[yt-users] disk Profiles

Elizabeth Tasker taskere at mcmaster.ca
Mon Jul 11 07:24:50 PDT 2011


Hi Sam,

Hmm, now you lay it out it seems kind of obvious. Thank you!!

Elizabeth


On 2011-07-11, at 11:20 PM, Sam Skillman wrote:

> Hi Elizabeth,
> 
> On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Elizabeth Tasker <taskere at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to create a profile object of the density in my disk as a function of radius. I don't actually want to plot it; I just need to grab an average to use as a background value elsewhere.
> 
> I think I've almost got it:
> 
> source = pf.h. disk((16,16,16), (0,0,1), 12, 15.6e-3/pf['kpc'])
> profile = BinnedProfile1D(source, 128, "RadiusCode", 0.5, 12.0)
> profile.add_fields("CellMass", weight="CellVolume")
> print profile["CellMass"]
> 
> I just have a couple of questions:
> 
> 1. Is there a way to print out the radial bins being used? i.e. the value at the centre of each bin?
> 
> You can access this through profile["RadiusCode"] or profile.data._bins.  Note that this will be the bin edges, and thus there will be 129 of them.
>  
> 
> 2. RadiusCode is going to be the 3d radius, is that true? I can create my own variable for the in-disk radius, but is there a quantity already in yt for that to use with the disk profile?
> 
> Not that I know of, but someone else may know better.  
> 
> Best,
> Sam
>  
> 
> Thank you~
> 
> Elizabeth
> 
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