CLASS MANUAL
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Author: Julien Lesgourgues
explanatory.ini
in the main CLASS
directory: it is THE reference file where we keep track of all possible input and the definition of all input parameters. For that reason we recommend to leave it always unchanged and to work with copies of it, or with short input files written from scratch.For the structure, style, and concrete aspects of the code: this documentation, especially the CLASS overview
chapter (the extensive automatically-generated part of this documentation is more for advanced users); plus the slides of our CLASS
lectures, for instance those from Tokyo 2014 available at
http://lesgourg.github.io/class-tour-Tokyo.html
or the more recent and concise summary from the Narbonne 2016 lecture available at
http://lesgourg.github.io/class-tour/Narbonne.pdf
An updated overview of available CLASS
lecture slides is always available at
http://lesgourg.github.io/courses.html
in the section Courses on numerical tools
.
For the python wrapper of CLASS
: at the moment, the best are the last slides (pages 75-96) of the Narbonne 2016 lectures
http://lesgourg.github.io/class-tour/Narbonne.pdf
Later we will expand the wrapper documentation with a dedicated chapter here.
For the physics and equations used in the code: mainly, the following papers:
Cosmological perturbation theory in the synchronous and conformal Newtonian gauges
C. P. Ma and E. Bertschinger.
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9506072
10.1086/176550
Astrophys. J. 455, 7 (1995)
The Cosmic Linear Anisotropy Solving System (CLASS) II: Approximation schemes
D. Blas, J. Lesgourgues and T. Tram.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2933 [astro-ph.CO]
10.1088/1475-7516/2011/07/034
JCAP 1107, 034 (2011)
The Cosmic Linear Anisotropy Solving System (CLASS) IV: efficient implementation of non-cold relics
J. Lesgourgues and T. Tram.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2935 [astro-ph.CO]
10.1088/1475-7516/2011/09/032
JCAP 1109, 032 (2011)
Optimal polarisation equations in FLRW universes
T. Tram and J. Lesgourgues.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3261 [astro-ph.CO]
10.1088/1475-7516/2013/10/002
JCAP 1310, 002 (2013)
Fast and accurate CMB computations in non-flat FLRW universes
J. Lesgourgues and T. Tram.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.2697 [astro-ph.CO]
10.1088/1475-7516/2014/09/032
JCAP 1409, no. 09, 032 (2014)
The CLASSgal code for Relativistic Cosmological Large Scale Structure
E. Di Dio, F. Montanari, J. Lesgourgues and R. Durrer.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.1459 [astro-ph.CO]
10.1088/1475-7516/2013/11/044
JCAP 1311, 044 (2013)
plus also some latex notes on specific sectors:
Equations for perturbed recombination
(can be turned on optionally by the user since v2.1.0)
L. Voruz.
http://lesgourg.github.io/class_public/perturbed_recombination.pdf
PPF formalism in Newtonian and synchronous gauge
(used by default for the fluid perturbations since v2.6.0)
T. Tram.