FIESTA#

Authors: Jiten Dhandha, Zoe Faes, Rowan J. Smith

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FIESTA stands for FIlamentary STructure Analysis, and is an astrophysical toolkit for studying filamentary networks in density fields defined on unstructured meshes. It is primarily built for use with the multi-physics hydrodynamical code AREPO (Springel, 2010) and the filament identification tool DisPerSE (Sousbie, 2011), but can also be used more generally with other softwares through some modifications. It includes tools such as:

  1. reading and writing data files for the aforementioned softwares;

  2. 2D and 3D visualizations of simulations and filamentary networks, along with functions for statistical analysis;

  3. algorithms for characterizing filament properties such as length, mass, density profile, and more!

Usage and license#

The code initially started as part of the Masters project “Beads on a string: Connecting Turbulence to Massive Star Formation” at the University of Manchester by Jiten Dhandha and Zoe Faes under the supervision of Rowan J. Smith.

The code is released under GNU General Public License v3.0, which means it can be freely used, shared, modified and distributed. For more details on the filament characterization algorithms, please see the associated paper Dhandha, Faes & Smith (2023) where the code was first introduced. If you use the code in your own publication, please cite Dhandha, Faes & Smith (2023). The paper is also accompanied by a data release on Zenodo, the analysis of which led to the development of this code.

Installation#

FIESTA requires the following packages to be installed:

  • numpy

  • scipy

  • matplotlib

  • astropy

The code can easily installed from the GitHub repository, by first cloning the repository or downloading the zip file, and then running the following command in the top level directory:

pip install .

Bugs and suggestions#

If you find any bugs, have suggestions or requests, or want help with the toolkit, please feel free to send one of the authors an email or raise an issue in the GitHub repository. We would be delighted to talk about it!