Quickstart Guides and Tutorials

This section of the documentation contains both quickstart guides and detailed usage-tutorials. If you are instead looking for a quick reference to the API of some class or function, try looking in Function-usage examples by category, or otherwise in Comprehensive Halotools Reference/API.

Quickstart Guides

• Getting started with Halotools

Setting up the simulation data

• Downloading and caching Halotools-provided catalogs
• Working with alternative halo and particle catalogs

Halo catalog analysis

• Quickstart guide to analyzing halo catalogs

Tutorials

Galaxy-Halo Modeling

• Tutorial on models pre-built by Halotools
• Tutorial on modeling the galaxy-halo connection
• Tutorial on the mock-making algorithms
• Tutorial on Conditional Abundance Matching

Galaxy/Halo Catalog Analysis

• Tutorials on analyzing galaxy catalogs
• Tutorials on analyzing halo catalogs

Merger Tree Analysis

• Calculating the Sum of Halo Progenitor Masses

Developer Documentation

The developer documentation contains guidlines for how to stay up-to-date on Halotools development, submit bug reports and contribute to the Halotools code base.

• Developer documentation
• Submitting a Bug Report
• Package contributors