diff --git a/doc/RTD/source/SubgridModels/EAGLE/index.rst b/doc/RTD/source/SubgridModels/EAGLE/index.rst index 817350c30b073e836190fa07d3a796252c4297fb..639d98cd1a994f6f30dfc2430c90294d7486fce0 100644 --- a/doc/RTD/source/SubgridModels/EAGLE/index.rst +++ b/doc/RTD/source/SubgridModels/EAGLE/index.rst @@ -255,7 +255,25 @@ Particle tracers Over the course of the simulation, the gas particles record some information about their evolution. These are updated for a given particle every time it is active. The EAGLE tracers module is located in the directory -``src/tracers/EAGLE``. +``src/tracers/EAGLE/``. + +In the EAGLE model, we trace the maximal tempearature a particle has reached and +the time at which this happened. When a star is formed (see the section +:ref:`EAGLE_star_formation` below), it inherits all the tracer values of its parent +gas particle. There are no parameters to the model but two values are added to +the snapshots for each gas and star particle: + ++----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------------------+ +| Name | Description | Units | Comments | ++========================================+=======================================+===========+=============================+ +| | ``Maximal Temperature`` | | Mximal temperature reached by | | [U_T] | | +| | | this particle. | | | ++----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------------------+ +| | ``Maximal Temperature scale-factor`` | | Scale-factor (cosmological runs) | | [-] | | +| | OR | | or time (non-cosmological runs) at | | OR | | +| | ``Maximal Temperature time`` | | which the maximum value was reached.| | [U_t] | | ++----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------------------+ + .. _EAGLE_star_formation: