The EAGLE simulations of galaxy formation: Public release of particle data

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This manual accompanies the release of the particle data for 24 simulations of the EAGLE suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation by the virgo consortium.

• It describes how to download these snapshots and how to extract datasets from them, emphasising the meaning of variables, and their units.
• We provide examples for extracting the particle data in python.
• This data release complements our earlier release of numerous integrated properties of the galaxies in EAGLE through an SQL relational database.