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:
Atomic Mass Evaluation 2012:
Partition functions
We use the tabulated partition functions from the following sources: