GRACKLE: a chemistry and cooling library for astrophysics

Britton D. Smith; Greg L. Bryan; Simon C. O. Glover; Nathan J. Goldbaum; Matthew J. Turk; John Regan; John H. Wise; Hsi-Yu Schive; Tom Abel; Andrew Emerick; Brian W. O'Shea; Peter Anninos; Cameron B. Hummels; Sadegh Khochfar

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GRACKLE: a chemistry and cooling library for astrophysics

Britton D. Smith, Greg L. Bryan, Simon C. O. Glover, Nathan J. Goldbaum, Matthew J. Turk, John Regan, John H. Wise, Hsi-Yu Schive, Tom Abel, Andrew Emerick, Brian W. O'Shea, Peter Anninos, Cameron B. Hummels, Sadegh Khochfar

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We present the GRACKLE chemistry and cooling library for astrophysical simulations and models. GRACKLE provides a treatment of non-equilibrium primordial chemistry and cooling for H, D and He species, including H2 formation on dust grains; tabulated primordial and metal cooling; multiple ultraviolet background models; and support for radiation transfer and arbitrary heat sources. The library has an easily implementable interface for simulation codes written in C, C++ and FORTRAN as well as a PYTHON interface with added convenience functions for semi-analytical models. As an open-source project, GRACKLE provides a community resource for accessing and disseminating astrochemical data and numerical methods. We present the full details of the core functionality, the simulation and PYTHON interfaces, testing infrastructure, performance and range of applicability. GRACKLE is a fully open-source project and new contributions are welcome.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2217-2234
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	466
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw3291
Publication status	Published - 17 Dec 2016

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astrochemistry
methods: numerical
galaxies: formation

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Smith, B. D., Bryan, G. L., Glover, S. C. O., Goldbaum, N. J., Turk, M. J., Regan, J., Wise, J. H., Schive, H-Y., Abel, T., Emerick, A., O'Shea, B. W., Anninos, P., Hummels, C. B., & Khochfar, S. (2016). GRACKLE: a chemistry and cooling library for astrophysics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 466(2), 2217-2234. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw3291

Smith, Britton D. ; Bryan, Greg L. ; Glover, Simon C. O. ; Goldbaum, Nathan J. ; Turk, Matthew J. ; Regan, John ; Wise, John H. ; Schive, Hsi-Yu ; Abel, Tom ; Emerick, Andrew ; O'Shea, Brian W. ; Anninos, Peter ; Hummels, Cameron B. ; Khochfar, Sadegh. / GRACKLE: a chemistry and cooling library for astrophysics. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 2016 ; Vol. 466, No. 2. pp. 2217-2234.

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In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , Vol. 466, No. 2, 17.12.2016, p. 2217-2234.

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