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Gravitational N-Body Simulation

v1.41 · Aug 20, 2024 · GPL-3

Description

Run simple direct gravitational N-body simulations. The package can access different external N-body simulators (e.g. GADGET-4 by Springel et al. (2021) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2010.03567>), but also has a simple built-in simulator. This default simulator uses a variable block time step and lets the user choose between a range of integrators, including 4th and 6th order integrators for high-accuracy simulations. Basic top-hat smoothing is available as an option. The code also allows the definition of background particles that are fixed or in uniform motion, not subject to acceleration by other particles.

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Version History

5 tracked
new 1.41 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.41 ← 1.33 diff Aug 19, 2024
updated 1.33 ← 1.31 diff Aug 15, 2022
updated 1.31 ← 1.30 diff Mar 3, 2022
new 1.30 Feb 2, 2022