yt OverviewΒΆ

yt is a community-developed analysis and visualization toolkit for astrophysical simulation data. yt runs both interactively and non-interactively, and has been designed to support as many operations as possible in parallel.

yt provides full support for several simulation codes in the current release:

We also provide limited support for Castro, NMSU-ART, and Maestro. A limited amount of RAMSES IO is provided, but full support for RAMSES will not be completed until the 3.0 release of yt.

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.

Getting Started

Welcome to yt!

What's yt all about?

yt Orientation

Quickly get up and running with yt: zero to sixty. (For sixty to seventy, see the bootcamp!)

How to Ask for Help

Some guidelines on how and where to ask for help with yt

The Cookbook

A bunch of illustrated examples of how to do things

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions: answered for you!

Cheat Sheet

A cheat sheet for yt you can print out

User Guide