Data and scripts from the entropy-core evolution project

This documentation complements the GitHub repository with data and scripts by providing minimal examples to help you include data from Altamura et al. (2025) in your figures in no time.

Check out the Properties, Radial profiles, Lagrangian histories, and Projected maps sections of the documentation for minimal Python examples to read in and plot the data from our paper directly into your figures.

Each section describes the serialisation of the data, the file structure, and provides abstract I/O functions to read data from file.

Note

If using these results, data or scripts in your work, please consider citing Altamura et al. (2023), Altamura et al. (2025) and the PhD thesis Altamura (2023). Visit the Citation guideline for more information.

Contents

• Home
• Properties
  • Data serialisation
  • Example: halo masses
  • Example: other self-similar quantities
  • Example: baryon fractions
• Radial profiles
  • Density profiles
  • Temperature profiles
  • Entropy profiles
• Lagrangian histories
  • Directory layout
  • Loading data
  • Preparing the entropy data
  • Plotting the evolution
• Projected maps
  • Overview of the data
  • Loading the data in memory
  • Example: mass-weighted temperature
• Citation guideline
  • The ‘entropy plateaus’ paper
  • The ‘entropy-core problem’ paper
  • The PhD thesis