astrosylva

Carry merger trees from the forest to Galacticus.

A Python library and CLI for converting halo merger-tree catalogues (Consistent-Trees, LHaloTree, SubLink, AHF) into the Galacticus HDF5 input format.

Contents:

• Canonical schema
  • Units
  • Halo dtype
  • Forest
  • Galacticus conventions
  • Metadata
• Writing a reader plugin
  • Skeleton
  • Entry point
  • Reader responsibilities
  • Bundled readers
• Integration testing
  • ytree sample data
• API reference
  • Schema
  • Reader framework
  • Bundled readers
  • Writer
  • Configuration
  • Exceptions

Installation

pip install astrosylva

Quickstart

astrosylva convert config.yaml

See Canonical schema for the canonical halo / metadata contract and Writing a reader plugin for how to add a reader plugin.