[yt-users] Halo finding on user-given variables

[Michael Zingale]

I've created a PR (1314) to make this run without crashing for
non-cosmological datasets.

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Michael Zingale <
michael.zingale at stonybrook.edu> wrote:

> Curious about this too, I just tried the clump finder -- churns for a
> while but then crashes because it cannot find a jeans_mass field, so it
> seems that it is atleast still thinking about gravitational clumps and not
> general topologically-connected blobs of a random variable.  I'll poke
> around some on this.
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Adam Jacobs <adam.jacobs at stonybrook.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Nathan,
>>
>> Thanks!  That's interesting and may do what I want.  I'll play around
>> with it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Adam
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Adam,
>>>
>>> Did you see the clump finder?  It works in a very different way to a
>>> halo finder, but then again dark matter particles don't really have a
>>> concept of temperature.
>>>
>>> http://yt-project.org/doc/analyzing/analysis_modules/clump_finding.html
>>>
>>> http://yt-project.org/doc/cookbook/constructing_data_objects.html#cookbook-find-clumps
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Nathan
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Adam Jacobs <
>>> adam.jacobs at stonybrook.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I would like to use yt's halo finder to select out spatially-coherent
>>>> hotspots in my data.  In other words, I would like the halo-finder
>>>> algorithm to select out based on temperature instead of density.  Is this
>>>> possible?  I couldn't find any obvious way to do this in the documentation.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your assistance!
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Adam Jacobs
>>>> Department of Physics and Astronomy, PhD Candidate
>>>> Stony Brook University
>>>>
>>>> http://astro.sunysb.edu/amjacobs/
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>>
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>> Adam Jacobs
>> Department of Physics and Astronomy, PhD Candidate
>> Stony Brook University
>>
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>
>
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> Michael Zingale
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>
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Michael Zingale
Associate Professor

Dept. of Physics & Astronomy • Stony Brook University • Stony Brook, NY
11794-3800
*phone*:  631-632-8225
*e-mail*: Michael.Zingale at stonybrook.edu
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