Tutorials

The easiest way to learn how to use Colossus is by following the tutorial notebooks. You can learn more about Jupyter notebooks on the Jupyter website. The editable notebooks are located in the colossus/tutorials directory, the links below point to their static html versions:

• Cosmology: Basics

• Cosmology: Power spectrum, variance, correlation function

• LSS: peaks in Gaussian random fields

• LSS: mass function

• LSS: halo bias

• Halo: spherical overdensity masses and radii

• Halo: density profiles

• Halo: concentration

• Halo: splashback

• Utilities: MCMC

The Search Page is useful if you are looking for examples of particular functions.