Tutorials

If you’re looking to learn more about cogsworth then you’ve come to the right place, check out our array of tutorials below! If you’re new to cogsworth I recommend going through the whole basics section as an introduction and go from there.

The Basics

• Creating your first population
• Understanding the simulation outputs
• Saving and loading simulations

Population settings

• Changing the way in which stars are sampled
• Varying stellar evolution parameters
• Using a different galactic potential
• Changing galactic star formation history models

Output analysis

• Selecting specific subpopulations
• Re-running for more detailed output

Hydrodynamical zoom-in simulations

• Processing a simulation snapshot
• Creating populations from snapshots

More on galactic potentials

• Adding a time-evolving galactic potential

More on star formation histories

• Exploring other star formation histories
• Using distribution function based star formation histories

Observables

• Estimating source photometry
• Predicting observed Gaia population

Different population synthesis codes

• Connecting cogsworth and COMPAS

Visualisation

• Illustrating individual binary evolution
• Projecting your population onto the sky
• Plotting potentials and orbits

Miscellaneous

• Identifying LISA sources in your population
• Multiprocessing considerations for your simulations