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pynucastro 3: A community library for nuclear astrophysics

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: 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).

Source: The Open Journal of Astrophysics

DOI: 10.33232/001c.172549

Authors: Zhi Chen, Khanak Bhargava, Eric T. Johnson, Reth Lopes, Melissa Rasmussen, Alexander Smith Clark, Michael Zingale, Brendan Boyd, Kiran Eiden, Sam Glosser, Don E. Willcox

Institutions: ORCID, Stony Brook University, Pennsylvania State University, University of California, Berkeley

Language: English

Topic: Nuclear physics research studies

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W7203742394

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