yt Overview

yt is a community-developed analysis and visualization toolkit for astrophysical simulation data. yt provides full support for the Enzo, Orion, Nyx, and FLASH codes, with preliminary support for RAMSES, ART, and Maestro. It runs both interactively and non-interactively, and has been designed to support as many operations as possible in parallel. For more detailed information, see our ApJS paper.

To install yt, see yt Orientation Session or Installing yt. To see what’s new since the last version, check out ChangeLog.

If you use yt in a paper, you are highly encouraged to submit the repository containing the scripts you used to analyze and visualize your data to the yt Hub, and we ask that you consider citing our method paper, as well. If you are looking to use yt, then check out the yt Hub for ideas of how other people used yt to generate worthwhile analysis. We encourage you to explore the source code and even consider contributing your enhancements and scripts.

For more information, please visit our homepage and for help, please see Asking for Help.

Analysis and Visualization with yt

Welcome to yt! What's yt all about?	yt Orientation Quickly get up and running with yt: zero to sixty.
Interacting with yt Different ways -- scripting, GUIs, prompts, explorers -- to explore your data.	Analyzing Data An overview of different ways to handle and process data
Visualizing Data An overview of different ways to visualize data: projections, slices, phase plots, and volume rendering	Analysis Modules Discussions of some provided procedures for astrophysical analysis like halo finding and synthetic spectra

Community, Developing, and Reference Materials

The Cookbook A bunch of illustrated examples of how to do things	Advanced yt usage Advanced topics: parallelism, debugging, ways to drive yt, developing
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions: answered for you!	Getting Involved How to participate in the community, contribute code and share scripts
How to Ask for Help Some guidelines on how and where to ask for help with yt	Reference Materials A list of all bundled fields, API documentation, the Change Log...