Sussing Merger Trees: A proposed Merger Tree data format
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2015-08-25 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract
We propose a common terminology for use in describing both temporal merger trees and spatial structure trees for dark-matter halos. We specify a unified data format in HDF5 and provide example I/O routines in C, FORTRAN and PYTHON.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1508.05388,
title = {Sussing Merger Trees: A proposed Merger Tree data format},
author = {Peter A. Thomas and Julian Onions and Dylan Tweed and Andrew J. Benson and Darren Croton and Pascal Elahi and Bruno Henriques and Ilian T. Iliev and Alexander Knebe and Hanni Lux and Yao-Yuan Mao and Mark Neyrinck and Frazer R. Pearce and Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez and Aurel Schneider and Chaichalit Srisawat},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.05388},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Technical report: a proposed merger tree data format. Not submitted to any journal. Source code available at https://bitbucket.org/ProfPAThomas/mergertree