[yt-users] question on the halo profiler

[Luigi Iapichino]

Thanks Britton,

now it works in the way I wished!
Cheers,

  Luigi

On Thursday 19 May 2011, Britton Smith wrote:
> Hi Luigi,
>
> The original behavior of the HaloProfiler was to only use the halo_radius
> keyword if the radius was not in the halo list.  I just pushed a change
> such that if you specify the radius with the halo_radius command, it will
> use that even if another radius is present in the halo list.  This should
> not change the behavior for anyone using the halo profiler with radii from
> the halo list, but someone please let me know if any issues crop up.
>
> If you update your yt source and reinstall you should be all set.
>
> Britton
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:29 AM, Luigi Iapichino <
>
> luigi at ita.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I have the following (rather standard, I guess) problem: I want to
> > produce radial profiles of selected quantities, from a number of halos in
> > my cosmological box. I am using the yt halo profiler, in the unstable
> > branch. So
> > far, I am able to add filters in such a way to select as many halos as I
> > want, but I have problems with setting the outer radius of my profiles.
> >
> > Here are the relevant parts of my script:
> >
> > ...
> > import yt.analysis_modules.halo_profiler.api as HP
> >
> > ...
> >
> > hp = HP.HaloProfiler(data_dir,
> > halos="multiple",halo_radius=500,radius_units="kpc",n_profile_bins=20)
> > ...
> >
> > In particular, I am not able to change the outer radius by setting
> > halo_radius. I read in the manual:
> > " halo_radius (float): if no halo radii are provided in the halo list
> > file, this parameter ..." etc.
> >
> > Now, in the halo list file provided by the HOP tool (within yt) there is
> > an entry called max_r. Is it a problem if I want to override it and set
> > the outer radius differently? As a side note, however max_r is >not< the
> > current
> > outer radius that I found in my in Halo_0000_profile.dat .
> > I look forward to your suggestions,
> > Cheers,
> >
> >  Luigi
> >
> > --
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Luigi Iapichino
> > Zentrum fuer Astronomie der Universitaet Heidelberg
> > Institut fuer Theoretische Astrophysik
> > Albert-Ueberle-Str. 2, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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> > e-mail: luigi at ita.uni-heidelberg.de
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Luigi Iapichino
Zentrum fuer Astronomie der Universitaet Heidelberg
Institut fuer Theoretische Astrophysik
Albert-Ueberle-Str. 2, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Tel: +49 6221 548983, Fax: +49 6221 544221
e-mail: luigi at ita.uni-heidelberg.de
URL: http://www.ita.uni-heidelberg.de/~luigi/