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Cosmology, halo, and large-scale structure tools
pip install colossus==1.3.8
Colossus is an astrophysics toolkit, the name is an acronym for COsmology, haLO, and large-Scale StrUcture toolS. Please consult the Online Documentation for details.
The easiest way to install Colossus is by executing:
pip install colossus
You might need to prefix this command with 'sudo'. Alternatively, you can clone the BitBucket repository by executing:
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/bdiemer/colossus
After installing colossus, you should run its unit test suite to ensure that the code works as expected. In python, execute:
from colossus.tests import run_tests
The output should look something like this:
test_home_dir (colossus.tests.test_utils.TCGen) ... ok
test_Ez (colossus.tests.test_cosmology.TCComp) ... ok
...
test_DK14ConstructorOuter (colossus.tests.test_halo_profile.TCDK14) ... ok
test_DK14ConstructorWrapper (colossus.tests.test_halo_profile.TCDK14) ... ok
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 86 tests in 7.026s
OK
If any errors occur, please send the output to the author.
Author: Benedikt Diemer (benedikt.diemer@cfa.harvard.edu)
Contributors: Matt Becker, Andrey Kravtsov, Steven Murray
License: MIT. Copyright (c) 2014-2019
If you use Colossus for a publication, please cite the code paper (Diemer 2017). Many Colossus routines implement the results of other papers. If you use such routines, please take care to cite the relevant papers as well (they will be mentioned in the function and/or module documentation).