The yt Astrophysical Analysis Extension

This is yt_astro_analysis, the yt extension package for astrophysical analysis. This is primarily machinery that used to be in yt’s analysis_modules. These were made into a separate package to allow yt to become less astro-specifc and to allow these modules to be developed on their own schedule.

Contents:

• Installation
  • Installing from source
  • Installing with Rockstar support
• Importing from yt_astro_analysis
• Available Modules
  • Halo Analysis
  • Synthetic Observation
  • Exporting to External Radiation Transport Codes
• The Cookbook
  • Example Scripts
  • Example Notebooks
• Contributing
• Citing yt_astro_analysis
• Help
• Reference
  • API Reference
  • ChangeLog

Citing yt_astro_analysis

If you use the yt_astro_analysis package for your work, please cite the yt_astro_analysis entry on zenodo.org as well as the yt method paper. Feel free to use the text below in your publications:

Analysis was performed using the yt_astro_analysis extension
(Smith et al. 2022) of the yt analysis toolkit (Turk et al. 2011).

Analysis was performed using the yt_astro_analysis extension
\citep{yt.astro.analysis} of the yt analysis toolkit \citep{yt}.

BbTeX entries are provided below:

@software{yt.astro.analysis,
  author       = {Britton Smith and
                  Matthew Turk and
                  John ZuHone and
                  Clément Robert and
                  Stephen Skory and
                  Cameron Hummels and
                  Andrew Myers and
                  Kacper Kowalik and
                  Corentin Cadiou and
                  eganhila and
                  Sam Skillman and
                  Michael S. Warren and
                  John Wise and
                  gsiisg and
                  madcpf and
                  Sam Leitner and
                  Anthony Scopatz and
                  Miguel de Val-Borro and
                  Casey W. Stark and
                  Ho, Meng-Yuan and
                  Ben Keller and
                  Bili Dong and
                  Mark Richardson and
                  Matthew Scott Krafczyk and
                  Nathan Goldbaum and
                  Sriram Sankar and
                  stonnes},
  title        = {yt-project/yt\_astro\_analysis: yt\_astro\_analysis
                   1.1.4 Release
                  },
  month        = sep,
  year         = 2025,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {yt\_astro\_analysis-1.1.4},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.17106789},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17106789},
}

@ARTICLE{yt,
   author = {{Turk}, M.~J. and {Smith}, B.~D. and {Oishi}, J.~S. and {Skory}, S. and
{Skillman}, S.~W. and {Abel}, T. and {Norman}, M.~L.},
    title = "{yt: A Multi-code Analysis Toolkit for Astrophysical Simulation Data}",
  journal = {The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series},
archivePrefix = "arXiv",
   eprint = {1011.3514},
 primaryClass = "astro-ph.IM",
 keywords = {cosmology: theory, methods: data analysis, methods: numerical},
     year = 2011,
    month = jan,
   volume = 192,
      eid = {9},
    pages = {9},
      doi = {10.1088/0067-0049/192/1/9},
   adsurl = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJS..192....9T},
  adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}