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LightGen

This package constructs observer-based lightcones from IllustrisTNG. The code is available on GitHub and is pip installable as a python package (see here).

Citation

If you use this code for you work, please cite the following two related papers:

  1. Shreeram et al. 2025a: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2025/05/aa52271-24/aa52271-24.html (also available or arXiv).
  2. J. Carlson and M. White, ApJS 190(2010)311. (preprint available at arxiv:1003.3178).

LC-TNGX

You can download the TNG-based gas lightcone with X-ray information from the 'Supplementary Data Catalogs' section from the official IllustrisTNG webgage here. This is currently work in progress and in the meantime, if you would like to use it, please reach out to me here.