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arxiv: 1104.2932 · v2 · submitted 2011-04-14 · 🌌 astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.CO

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The Cosmic Linear Anisotropy Solving System (CLASS) I: Overview

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The Cosmic Linear Anisotropy Solving System (CLASS) is a new accurate Boltzmann code, designed to offer a more user-friendly and flexible coding environment to cosmologists. CLASS is very structured, easy to modify, and offers a rigorous way to control the accuracy of output quantities. It is also incidentally a bit faster than other codes. In this overview, we present the general principles of CLASS and its basic structure. We insist on the friendliness and flexibility aspects, while accuracy, physical approximations and performances are discussed in a series of companion papers.

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