REBOUND: an open-source multi-purpose N-body code for collisional dynamics
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REBOUND is a new multi-purpose N-body code which is freely available under an open-source license. It was designed for collisional dynamics such as planetary rings but can also solve the classical N-body problem. It is highly modular and can be customized easily to work on a wide variety of different problems in astrophysics and beyond.
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- Authors
- Rein, H., & Liu, S.-F.
- Affiliations
- Institute for Advanced Study (US)
- Peking University (CN)
- Venue
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Publisher
- EDP Sciences
- Published
- 2012-01
- Volume
- 537
- Pages
- A128
- ISSN
- 0004-6361 (ISSN-L)
- 1432-0746
- OpenAlex
- W2107852741
- Cited by
- 1,180
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 2.55
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Astronomy and Astrophysics (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (0807444)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Astro and Planetary Science
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Computational Physics and Python Applications
- Keywords
- N-body simulations, collision dynamics, planetary rings, open source software
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