Welcome to pNbody’s documentation!

Contents:

• Overview
• Installation
  • Prerequiste
  • Download
  • Install
  • Check the installation
  • Default configuration
  • Default parameters
  • Generate examples
  • Other examples
• Tutorial
  • Using pNbody with the python interpreter
  • ‘’gpy’’: the shortcut to open a snapshot
  • Using pNbody with scripts
  • Using pNbody in parallel
• Getting general information on an N-body system
  • General info
  • Variables
  • Arrays
  • Methods
• Computing physical quantities
  • From brute arrays
  • With a proper conversion
• Display Models
  • Generate the example file
  • The display method
  • Display parameters
  • Set the observer position
  • Set the projection mode
  • Stero mode
  • Shape of the final image
  • Display space
  • Display mode
  • Rendering
  • Set color range
  • Set filters
  • Draw contours
  • Draw axis
  • frsp
• Selecting particles
  • List of selection functions
  • Examples
• Generating initial conditions
  • Generating mass profiles
  • Generating velocities
  • Generating initial conditions from a distribution function
  • Generating a multi-components galaxy
• How to deal with units ?
  • Define a system of units
  • Link a unit system to a pNbody object
  • How to deal with comoving to proper units conversion ?
  • Converting units
• Generating grids
• Handling isochrones : the Isochrones module
  • MIST isochrones
  • BastI isochrones
  • CMD isochrones
  • Retrieving info from the Isochrones database
  • Generate a SSP magnitude grid
  • Generate a SSP luminosity grid
  • SSP Grids
  • Isochrones Scripts
  • isochrones_plot
  • isochrones_py
  • isochrones_generate_magnitudes_grid
  • isochrones_plot_magnitudes_grid
  • isochrones_ssp_grid_info
  • The IsochronesBlock class
  • The IsochronesGrid class
• Mock images
  • Setup the N-body model
  • Check the model
  • Dwarf models
  • The Mockimgs module
  • Computing surface brightness maps
  • Adding noise on surface brightness maps
  • List of Instruments
  • List of filters
  • Examples
• Setting a format file
  • The NbodyDefault.get_read_fcts() and NbodyDefault.get_write_fcts() methods
  • Some info on our ascii object
  • Other important methods
• Module Reference
  • the main module
  • the Isochrones module
  • the ic module
  • the iofunc module
  • the units module
  • the ctes module
  • the mpi module
  • the libutil module
  • the param module
  • the parameters module
  • the talkgdisp module
  • the fortranfile module
  • the palette module
  • the Movie module
  • the profiles module
  • the Mass models module
  • the DF module
  • the geometry module
  • the libmiyamoto module
  • the libgrid module
  • the libdisk module
  • the cosmo module
  • the thermodyn module
  • the fourier module
  • the phot module
  • the cooling module
  • the C asciilib module
  • the C coolinglib module
  • the C cooling_with_metals module
  • the C cosmolib module
  • the C iclib module
  • the C mapping module
  • the C mapping-omp module (under construction)
  • the C montecarlolib module
  • the C myNumeric module
  • the C nbdrklib module
  • the C nbodymodule module
  • the C peanolib module
  • the C pmlib module (never developped)
  • the C ptreelib module (obsolete)
  • the C pygsl module
  • the C streelib module (under construction)
  • the C tessel module
  • the C treelib module
• Additional scripts
  • Base operations
  • Display scripts
  • Scripts dedicated to movies
  • pNbody configuration scripts
  • Other scripts
• Gallery
  • Cosmological simulations
  • Isolated and interacting galaxies
  • Cluster of galaxies
• 2D Movies
  • The MilkyWay and its interstellar medium
  • Formation of the large scale structure of our Universe
  • The collision between the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy
  • Isolated galaxies with spirals and bars
  • Formation of a dwarf spheroidal galaxy in a ultra-high Zoom-in simulation
  • More movies
• Stereo Movies
  • Very high quality stereo movies
  • Cosmological stereo movies
  • Experimental stereo movies

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page