Overplotting Halo Annotations

The yt_astro_analysis package includes a function that allows one to overplot the locations of halos from a halo catalog on top of yt slices and projections. See Plot Modifications: Overplotting Contours, Velocities, Particles, and More for more information on the other available plot modifications.

To add the halo annotation to the set of available plot modifications, the following line must be added to your script.

import yt.extensions.astro_analysis.halo_analysis
annotate_halos(self, halo_catalog, circle_args=None, width=None, annotate_field=None, radius_field='virial_radius', center_field_prefix="particle_position", text_args=None, factor=1.0)

This is a proxy for HaloCatalogCallback.

This will overplot circles denoting halo locations. The radius of the circle is given by the “virial_radius” field, but can be changed using the radius_field keyword argument. The user must provide one of the following:

  1. a loaded yt Dataset of a halo catalog (e.g., a Rockstar catalog).
  2. a YTDataContainer from a halo catalog dataset.
  3. a HaloCatalog
import yt
import yt.extensions.astro_analysis.halo_analysis

data_ds = yt.load("Enzo_64/RD0006/RedshiftOutput0006")
halos_ds = yt.load("rockstar_halos/halos_0.0.bin")

p = yt.ProjectionPlot(data_ds, "z", ("gas", "density"))
p.annotate_halos(halos_ds, annotate_field="particle_identifier")
p.save()
_images/annotate_halos.png