# Output List¶

In the sections Snapshots, Statistics and StructureFinding, you can specify the options output_list_on and output_list which receive an int and a filename. The output_list_on enable or not the output list and output_list is the filename containing the output times. With the file header, you can choose between writing redshifts, scale factors or times.

Example of file containing with times (in internal units):

# Time
0.5
1.5
3.0
12.5


Example of file with scale factors:

# Scale Factor
0.1
0.2
0.3


Example of file with redshift:

# Redshift
20
15
10
5


If an output list is specified, the basic values for the first snapshot (time_first, scale_factor_first) and difference (delta_time) are ignored.

When an output list is used SWIFT will not write a “0th” snapshot straight after having read the ICs. Similarly, SWIFT will also not write a snapshot at the end of a simulation unless a snapshot at the final time is specified in the list.

# Output Selection¶

With SWIFT, you can select the particle fields to output in snapshot using the parameter file. In section SelectOutput, you can remove a field by adding a parameter formatted in the following way field_parttype where field is the name of the field that you want to remove (e.g. Masses) and parttype is the type of particles that contains this field (e.g. Gas, DM or Star). For a parameter, the only values accepted are 0 (skip this field when writing) or 1 (default, do not skip this field when writing). By default all fields are written.

This field is mostly used to remove unnecessary output by listing them with 0’s. A classic use-case for this feature is a DM-only simulation (pure n-body) where all particles have the same mass. Outputting the mass field in the snapshots results in extra i/o time and unnecessary waste of disk space. The corresponding section of the yaml parameter file would look like this:

SelectOutput:
Masses_DM:   0


You can generate a yaml file containing all the possible fields available for a given configuration of SWIFT by running ./swift --output-params output.yml.