File Formats

The format of summary and detail files depends on the value of the summary_file_format and detail_file_format parameters in the &ad_output and &nad_output namelist groups (see the Output Parameters section). Possible choices are:

• 'HDF' : A binary format based on the HDF5 format

• 'TXT' : A text format modeled after MESA’s profile file format

For both formats, the data stored in the files come in two flavors — scalars (a single value) and arrays (a sequence of values). Files in either format can be read in Python using the pygyre.read_output() function from PyGYRE (see the Interpreting Output Files chapter for examples).

HDF Format

HDF-format output files adhere to the following conventions:

• All data objects are attached to the root HDF5 group (/)

• Attributes are used to store scalar data

• Datasets are used to store array data

• Real values are written with type H5T_IEEE_F64LE when GYRE is compiled in double precision (the default), and type H5T_IEEE_F32LE otherwise

• Integer values are written with type H5T_STD_I32LE

• Complex values are written as a compound type, composed of a real component re and an imaginary component im; the types of these components are the same as for real values

TXT Format

TXT-format files adhere to the following conventions:

• The first three lines contain the scalar data:

  • The first line contains the column numbers for the scalar data, starting at 1

  • The second line contains the column labels for the scalar data

  • The third line contains the actual scalar data values

• The subsequent lines contain the array data:

  • The fourth line contains the column numbers for the array data, starting at 1

  • The fifth line contains the the column labels for the array data

  • The sixth and subsequent lines contain the actual array data (one line per array element)

• Complex values are written as two columns, with the first column containing the real component and the second the imaginary component