[yt-users] star_density slices

Britton Smith brittonsmith at gmail.com
Fri Jun 10 14:12:45 PDT 2011


Hi Elizabeth,

It's difficult to tell from just the image you sent.  It's possible this is
an issue with your computational domain not being 0 to 1.  Can you do a
projection of star_density of the entire box?  That might help us figure out
what is going on.

Britton

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Elizabeth Tasker <taskere at mcmaster.ca>wrote:

> Oddly, neither of those make any difference.
>
> Elizabeth
>
>
>
> Britton Smith wrote:
>
>> I would also suggest trying some projections instead of slices as well.
>>  Both of those fields are created using the CIC_deposit interpolation method
>> with just the star particles.  I could see a field like that being
>> problematic when doing slices.
>>
>> Britton
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Cameron Hummels <
>> chummels at astro.columbia.edu <mailto:chummels at astro.columbia.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>    Try using the field StarMassMsun instead of star_density and see
>>    what it yields.  I've had better luck with that field.
>>
>>    Cameron
>>
>>
>>    On 6/10/11 4:00 PM, Elizabeth Tasker wrote:
>>
>>>    Hi,
>>>
>>>    Slices of the star_density field are only showing a tiny patch of
>>>    the area in the corner, rather than the whole region. My script
>>>    looks like:
>>>
>>>    pc = PlotCollection(pf, center=[17.,11.5, 16])
>>>    p = pc.add_slice("star_density", 2)
>>>    pc.set_width(10, 'kpc')
>>>    p.modify["grids"]()
>>>
>>>    Density comes out fine and the grids are drawn in but then only a
>>>    few of them get stars.
>>>
>>>    Elizabeth
>>>
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