[ascl:1210.008]
Rockstar: Phase-space halo finder
Rockstar (Robust Overdensity Calculation using K-Space Topologically Adaptive Refinement) identifies dark matter halos, substructure, and tidal features. The approach is based on adaptive hierarchical refinement of friends-of-friends groups in six phase-space dimensions and one time dimension, which allows for robust (grid-independent, shape-independent, and noise-resilient) tracking of substructure. Our method is massively parallel (up to 10^5 CPUs) and runs on the largest current simulations (>10^10 particles) with high efficiency (10 CPU hours and 60 gigabytes of memory required per billion particles analyzed). Rockstar offers significant improvement in substructure recovery as compared to several other halo finders.
- Code site:
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https://bitbucket.org/gfcstanford/rockstar
- Used in:
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https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013MNRAS.428.2039K
- Described in:
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https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJ...762..109B
- Bibcode:
- 2012ascl.soft10008B