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MAGRATHEA-PATHFINDER
Version 2.0 (04/2021)
Code for 3D AMR ray-tracing in simulations
Authors:
Vincent Reverdy
Michel-Andres Breton
2012-2021
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The goal of the present framework is to propagate photons
within cosmological simulations to construct observables.

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Table of content:
0. Preamble
1. Compiling the code
2. Running the code
3. Jobs
4. Step 0 - Preparation
5. Step 1 - Observer velocity
6. Step 2 - Rays
7. Step 3 - Catalogues
8. Step 4 - Maps
9. Other files
10. Testing the code
11. Further documentation
12. Citations
13. Contact
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0. Preamble
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Magrathea-Pathfinder is a high-performance computational framework for relativistic raytracing at cosmological scales.
It is built on top of the Magrathea metalibrary (Reverdy, 2014) available at: https://github.com/vreverdy/magrathea
Magrathea stands for "Multi-processor Adaptive Grid Refinement Analysis for THEoretical Astrophysics".

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1. Compiling the code
=====================

In the main directory, just type

make

This will produce all the executables in ./bin

The compiler must be GCC version must be at least 4.8.1 (Does not work for GCC 8.X, but does for all other versions up to GCC 11.X, this will be fixed soon)
If the version of GCC is inferior to 7.x.x, it must be indicated in the Makefile
(uncomment the 'OPTIONS += -DGCCBELOW7' line)

-- REQUIREMENTS --

In any case, you need to link paths to the HDF5 library.
To produce maps, the Healpix library is required,
as well as the cfitsio library for the outputs.

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2. Running the code
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The command line

runs the code in parallel using MPI. NTASKS is the number of tasks used (can be equal to 1).
The executable ./bin/executable depends on the use, and so is the parameter file.

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3. Jobs
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Instead of running the code with command lines, we recommand to use the jobs
at your disposal in ./jobs/, which are (respectively)

step_00000_preparation.sh
step_00001_observer_velocity.sh
step_00002_rays.sh
step_00003_catalogs.sh
step_00004_healpix.sh

To run the jobs, just type (for example for the first job)

sh step_00000_preparation.sh

This will produce a .txt parameter file in the output directory, as well
as a .log file

The parameter file in each job is self-explanatory

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4. Step 0 - Preparation
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Pre-requisite for any ray-tracing module.

Produce a N-dimensional gravity octree with Adaptive-Mesh Refinement (AMR) from simulation data
in Magrathea format. For most uses the octree is 3-dimensional.

The associated executable and job are respectively ./bin/create_octree and step_00000_preparation.sh

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4.1 Domain decomposition
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Magrathea-Pathfinder divides the simulation in cone-shaped sub-domains. These cones share a common spherical region
at their vertex (which coincides with the observer's position). These cones contain some overlaping regions,
so that photons do not leave the cone due to gravitational lensing. In Magrathea-Pathfinder, photons are propagated in the cones that are assigned to them.
Because these cones cover different areas, they do not communicate (except for some specific applications as in Section 6.).

If the number of MPI tasks is the same as the number of cones, then each task takes care of one cone.
If the number of MPI tasks is smaller than the number of cones, then individual tasks will produce multiple cones.

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4.2 Information needed
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To produce a gravity octree which will be used during ray-tracing, for each cell we need to have access to:

- 3D position
- The scale factor
- The gravitational potential
- The force (cartesian derivatives of the gravitational potential)
- The density (optional)
- The gravitational potential time derivative  (optional)

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4.3 Input format
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The input format can be either binary, HDF5 or ascii.

For binary and HDF5, the format is specific to the RayGal simulations (Rasera et al. 2021, see also test data)
which come from the codes RAMSES (Teyssier 2002) and pFoF (Roy et al. 2014).

ASCII:
The input data are ascii files which must end with suffix '.dat'
These are 10 column files with

level (AMR level), x_pos, y_pos, z_pos, density, phi (grav. potential), dphidx, dphidy, dphidz, a (scale factor)
with all the informations in Ramses Units (comoving, normalised so that the box length is unity)

To produce a narrow light-cone with ascii inputs we also need a 'info_narrow_cone.txt' file which contains 4 rows.
Example of 'info_narrow_cone.txt' file:

phi = 20
theta = 20
thetay = 10
thetaz = 10

(phi, theta) gives the orientation of the cone w.r.t the x-axis (in degrees).
In this example the cone is rotated by 20 degrees along the phi and theta angles in
spherical coordinates. (thetay, thetaz) gives the semi-aperture of the lightcone at the observer.
The cone has a square basis and in this example, a 10x10 deg^2 aperture.

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4.4 Input type
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To produce a gravity octree, Magrathea-Pathfinder needs as inputs either a gravity grid or a distribution of particles (specific to HDF5 format)
For the latter informations are interpolated as some cell locations with refined mesh if we have more than 8 particles per cell.
In any case, the input data needs to contain all the information in 4.1.

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4.5 Outputs
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Magrathea-Pathfinder produces binary files which contain the gravity information on an AMR grid. Each file is associated to one cone.
The output directory is given by 'conedir' in the parameter file.

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5. Step 1 - Observer velocity
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Small job which compute the velocity field at the observer. This should run with a single task.

The associated executable and job are respectively ./bin/observer_velocity and step_00001_observer_velocity.sh

Magrathea-Pathfinder reads the particle file at z = 0, compute the velocity field in the eight cells around the observer,
and average over them. Since the result depends on the size of the neighbouring cells, we choose to
compute the velocity field using 5 different levels, starting from the coarse level of the simulation to
finer levels. To perform the interpolation, the user can choose to use the CIC or TSC algorithms.

The output file is a *_observer_velocity.log file in the same directory as the cones.
The value of the velocity field at the observer is written for each level, in Ramses Units and SI.

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6. Step 2 - Rays
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This jobs propagates photons in the simulation, and compute various statistics.

The associated executable and job are respectively ./bin/rays and step_00002_rays.sh

This jobs allows the user to propagate photons in the simulation, either in random directions
or toward sources (pre-computed using the 'catalogues' module, see Section 7.).

We must run the code with as many MPI tasks as there are cones.

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6.1 Random directions
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It is possible to launch an arbitrary number of photons in a beam around a central one. It is also possible
to choose the number of beams per cone. The user can choose to output all the individual trajectories,
or statistics regarding functions or the angular diameter distance in each cone or averaged over the full lightcone
at some given redshifts.

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6.2 Catalogue directions
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Alternatively, it is possible to output the full photon trajectories when launched in the observed directions of sources.
To do so, one needs to run the step 3 (Section 7.) and generate source catalogues first.

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6.3 Outputs
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The outputs are ascii files in the 'rays' directory.

The format for the full trajectory of individual rays is:
0   1  2  3  4  5   6    7    8    9    10    11   12   13   14        15      16       17        18       19         20       21             22                23   24          25           26      27     28
step, a, t, x, y, z, k^0, k^1, k^2, k^3, level, a*, rho, phi, dphi/dx, dphi/dy, dphi/dz, dphi/dl, dphi/dl*, redshift, (ds/dl)^2, error, angular diameter distance, isw, isw*, comoving distance, l,    dphi/dt, s

where the wavevector k^\mu = dx^\mu/dl.

All the informations are in SI, except for the density rho which is normalised by the mean matter density and the position (x,y,z, comoving distance) which are in Ramses Units.
t is the conformal time in seconds.
The column 'angular diameter distance' is non zero only if we use a light bundle.
The column 'l' is the affine parameter
The last column 's' is the total distance travelled.
The columns which contain '*' yields a different (less accurate) method to compute a quantity that we also provide differently.

The format of statistics file is:

redshift, distance (FLRW), distance, standard deviation

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7. Step 3 - Catalogues
======================

This job produces relativistic source catalogues using ray-tracing.

The associated executable and job are respectively ./bin/catalogues and step_00003_catalogues.sh

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7.1 Catalogue production
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Produce catalogue from sources. This option is enabled when we have 'use_previous_catalogues = 0'

The input source files must be in HDF5 RayGal format.

Magrathea-Pathfinder uses an iterative method to find the null geodesic that connects the source to the observer,
up to a precision given by 'cat_accuracy'.

The output catalogues for each cone are written as ascii files in the 'catalogue' directory. The columns are:

Id, beta1, beta2, theta1, theta2, error, z0, z1, z2, z3, z4, z5, a11, a12, a21, a22, npart

beta and theta are the comoving and observed angles respectively. For the angles, the indexes '1' and '2' refer to
phi and theta, the angles in spherical coordinates. The angles are given in radians.

error gives the angle at the observer between the photon at the source and the source.

z0 = FLRW redshift
z1 = z0 + potential
z2 = z1 + RSD
z3 = z2 + T. Doppler
z4 = z3 + ISW/RS
z5 = exact calculation

a11, a12, a21 and a22 are the components of the lensing distortion matrix.

npart gives the number of particles within the halo (equal to 1 if the target are DM particles).

Additionally, there are _err.txt and _rejected.txt files.

The former are sources which cannot be accessed by ray-tracing (generally because it is outside, or at the limits
of our numerical light-cone). The latter are sources which did not converge during the root-finding algorithm,
see Section 7.3 in order to re-run them in order to obtain a full sample).

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7.2 Re-run the lensing matrix
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After using 7.1, if one wants a different definition for the lensing distortion matrix, it is possible to
read the catalogues in order to launch the photons in the right direction (hence we do not need to
re-run the root-finding algorithm the connect the observer to sources).

This option is enabled when we have 'use_previous_catalogues = 1', together with the token 'base' which
gives the name format of the catalogues.

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7.3 Re-run rejected sources
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Sometimes, our root-finding method does not converge quickly enough. In this case the sources are put in *_rejected.txt files

By using 'use_previous_catalogues = 2', these sources are re-run, starting from the last tentative observed angle. Photons
are launch in a fine grid around this direction and we take the pixel for which the distance to the source is the closest at the same comoving distance.
This iterative method is much slower than the previous ones.

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8. Step 4 - Maps
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This job propagates photons in the light-cone in the direction of Healpix pixel and produces Healpix maps

The associated executable and job are respectively ./bin/hmaps and step_00004_healpix.sh

The photons can be stopped at some given surface, which roughly coincides with the redshifts requested (with z_stop_min, z_stop_max, and nb_z_maps ) in inputs.

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8.1 Velocity field
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Alternatively, it is possible to use ./bin/hmaps_velocityfield and step_00004_healpix_velocityfield.sh

In this case, the octree is modified to contain additional slots for the velocity field. On the fly, Magrathea-Pathfinder computes
the velocity field for each cell of the octree from particles.

The main difference with respect to the 'normal' version is that here the redshift contains the Doppler terms.

WARNING: computing the velocity field on the fly with ALL the DM particles in the vicinity of the redshifts of interest
will considerably slow down the code.

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8.2 Outputs
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For each pixel at these surfaces we can output different kind of maps with the following keywords:

- lensing	(Output the lensing statistics for infinitesimal or bundle methods)
- lensing_born  (same but use the infinitesimal method around a FLRW trajectory)
- dr		(relative difference on the comoving distance)
- dl		(relative difference on the affine parameter)
- dt		(relative difference on the conformal time)
- da		(relative difference on the scale factor)
- dz		(relative difference on the redshift)
- ds		(relative difference on the distance travelled)
- isw		(ISW/RS effect)
- dens		(local density)
- dens_max	(maximum overdensity of the trajectory)
- steps		(number of integration steps)
- phi		(gravitational potential)

In it possible to give a list of arguments containing the above keywords, the output maps will contain some index
which refer to the position of the argument in the list.

For example, when putting 'map_components = lensing, lensing_born', in the .log file we have:

Index: 0, component: kappa ('lensing')
Index: 1, component: gamma1 ('lensing')
Index: 2, component: gamma2 ('lensing')
Index: 3, component: inverse magnification ('lensing')
Index: 4, component: kappa ('lensing_born') WARNING: with lensing_born we compute the jacobian matrix with a single photon (no bundle method available)
Index: 5, component: gamma1 ('lensing_born')
Index: 6, component: gamma2 ('lensing_born')
Index: 7, component: inverse magnification ('lensing_born')

This gives the relation between index in the output names and nature of the map.

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9. Other files
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For all the steps, we need two additional files:

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9.1 Evolution file
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data/ramses_input_xxxxx.dat
Begining a is 0.001 roughly, final a is 1. exactly and  number of elements is  1000 roughly
a,H/H0,tau_supercomoving*H0,tlookback*H0,tproper*H0
a = 1 at z = 0 (today), t and tau = 0 at z = 0,
a is the expansion factor, h the Hubble constant defined as hexp=1/a*da/dtau
tau the supercomoving conformal time (integral of dt/a^2), t the look-back time, tproper is integral of dt/a!  )

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9.2 Cosmological parameters
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data/param_xxxxx.txt

Ramses parameter file read by Magrathea-Pathfinder to get the hubble parameter.

Example of parameter file:
h=0.72000000
Omega_m=0.25733000
Omega_b=0.043557099
omega_r=0.000080763524
n_s=0.96300000
sigma_8=0.80100775
w=-1.0000000

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10. Testing the code
====================

wget http://cosmo.obspm.fr//efiler2_raygal/misc/test_data.tar.gz

In test_data/simulation/ you will find the gravity and particle data.

You can directly run the jobs in magrathea_pathfinder/jobs,
only changing the paths to the one of the data.

You can compare your results to the ones in test_data/expected_results/

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11. Further documentation
=========================

An exhaustive documentation generated with Doxygen
for every function is available in doc/doxygen/latex/refman.pdf

https://github.com/vreverdy/magrathea

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12. Citations
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- Reverdy (2014), PhD thesis (https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-02095297/document)
- Breton & Reverdy (2021), arXiv:2111.08744

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13. Contact
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For any question, recommandation or contribution regarding Magrathea-Pathfinder,
do not hesitate to send an email to michel-andres.breton@lam.fr and/or vince.rev@gmail.com



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