SKIRT documentation index

The SKIRT documentation is structured as follows:

• What's new in SKIRT 9 presents the changes from SKIRT 8 to SKIRT 9.

Part I: Guides – overall guidance and tutorials.

• The SKIRT code overview describes the various components of the SKIRT code.
• The SKIRT Installation Guide provides installation instructions for the SKIRT code.
• The Tutorials introduce SKIRT through a number of detailed usage examples; highly recommended for new users.
• The SKIRT User Guide offers more structured information on using the various components in the SKIRT code.
• The SKIRT Developer Guide offers guidelines on how to extend or adjust the SKIRT code.

Part II: Concepts – more in-depth information on selected topics.

• Wavelengths in SKIRT discusses wavelength sampling and discretization in SKIRT.
• Spatial grids introduces the spatial grids used for discretizing the transfer medium in SKIRT.
• Dust properties describes how SKIRT deals with optical and calorimetric dust properties.
• Importing snapshots presents SKIRT's capabilities for working with the results of hydrodynamical simulations.
• Cosmological redshift presents the SKIRT features related to models placed at nonzero redshift.
• Polarization describes the implementation of polarized radiation transfer in SKIRT.
• Lyman-alpha line transfer presents SKIRT's capabilities for simulating Lyman-alpha line transfer.
• The perspective instrument provides details on SKIRT's perspective instrument, used mostly for making movies.
• Parallelization explains how SKIRT supports parallel computing.
• The CFITSIO library introduces the library included with SKIRT to read and write FITS files.
• The Voro++ library introduces the library included with SKIRT to construct Voronoi tesselations.

Part III: Reference – documentation on every class, namespace and function.

The reference documentation can be accessed by selecting one of the corresponding tabs in the navigation bar at the top of the page:

• Classes: a list of all the classes in the SKIRT code.
  • The Class List subtab: an alphabetical list of all classes
  • The Class Index subtab: an alphabetical index of all classes
  • The Class Hierarchy subtab: inheritance diagrams for all classes
• Namespaces: a list of the namespaces in the SKIRT code.
• Macros: a list of the files defining macros in the SKIRT code.

Quick reference help for manual ski file editing can be found here:

• List of subclasses for each base class
• List of properties for each concrete class