pynucastro 3: A community library for nuclear astrophysics
We describe the latest release of pynucastro: a community python library for nuclear astrophysics. The goal of the pynucastro project is to build the tools needed to interactively explore nuclear properties, reaction rates, and networks, and to export these networks to a variety of simulation codes. Major changes in pynucastro since the last major release include new rate approximations, a stellar equation of state, support for the StarLib library and rate uncertainties, and new tools for exploring networks. Notebooks to reproduce all the figures are available here (https://zenodo.org/records/23147995).
Authors
- Alexander Smith Clark (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5961-1680)
- Khanak Bhargava (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0385-7918)
- Eric T. Johnson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3603-6868)
- M. Zingale (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8401-030X)
- Donald Willcox (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2300-5165)
- Kiran Eiden (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6191-4285)
- Brendan Boyd (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5419-9751)
- Melissa Rasmussen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0297-0313)
- Sam Glosser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6648-3381)
- Reth Lopes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1874-4389)
- Zhi Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2839-107X)
Institutions
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- ORCID (US)
- Stony Brook University (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Open Journal of Astrophysics
- Published
- 2026-10-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.33232/001c.172549
- Primary Topic
- Nuclear physics research studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00