Third Party Data

pynucastro incorporates the following publicly-available third-party data. Links to this data as well as citations to the relevant publications are as follows.

Reaction rates

Nuclear reaction rates from JINA Reaclib

The reaction rate parameterizations in pynucastro/library were obtained from the JINA Reaclib database.

Cyburt et al. [2010]

Tabulated weak nuclear reaction rates

For nuclei with \(A = 17\) to \(28\) we use the weak rates from Suzuki et al. [2016].

The data tables were obtained from https://www.phys.chs.nihon-u.ac.jp/suzuki/data2/link.html.
For nuclei with \(A = 45\) to \(65\) we use the weak rates from Langanke and Martínez-Pinedo [2001].

Physical constants from CODATA

The standalone AMReX-Astro Microphysics networks rely on physical constants sourced from the 2014 CODATA recommended values, located at https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/archive2014.html.

Mohr et al. [2016]

Masses, binding energies, and spins from the Atomic Mass Data Center

We get the basic nuclear properties from the AME2016 evaluation. This is available online at Nuclear Data Services.

Atomic Mass Evaluation 2016:

Huang et al. [2017]
Wang et al. [2017]

Atomic Mass Evaluation 2012:

Audi et al. [2012]
Wang et al. [2012]

Partition functions

We use the tabulated partition functions from the following sources:

Rauscher et al. [1997]
Rauscher [2003]