vice.multizone
- Enforces each zone to run in the same mode (related to the handling of inflow metallicites; see below).
vice.singlezone
andvice.multizone
- Handles non-zero inflow metallicities in a more stable way. Unit tests search for numerical artifacts in "sudden event" evolutionary histories exhibiting bursts in star formation.
- Includes primordial metallicity component in the reported total abundance in accreting gas at each timestep.
vice.dataframe
- Fixed issues with inheritance structure affecting recent versions of python (3.11 and 3.12)
vice.yields.ccsne.fractional
- Subtracts the remnant mass from the initial mass in computing net yields from the tables containing gross yields. A small correction for metals, the difference is significant for helium.
- Fixed callback objects to be compatible with Cython>=3.0.
vice.mlr
Additional options for the stellar mass-lifetime relation (MLR).
vice.mlr.powerlaw
:function
The single power-law formulation assumed in previous versions.
vice.mlr.vincenzo2016
:function
The MLR parameterized by Vincenzo et al. (2016), MNRAS, 460, 2238
vice.mlr.hpt2000
:function
The MLR parameterized by Hurley, Pols & Tout (2000), MNRAS, 315, 543
vice.mlr.ka1997
:function
The MLR parameterized by Kodama & Arimoto (1997), A&A, 320, 41
vice.mlr.pm1993
:function
The MLR parameterized by Padovani & Matteucci (1993), ApJ, 416, 26
vice.mlr.mm1989
:function
The MLR parameterized by Maeder & Meynet (1989), A&A, 210, 155
vice.mlr.larson1974
:function
The MLR parameterized by Larson (1974), MNRAS, 166, 585
vice.mlr.setting
:str
A string denoting which of the above functions to adopt as the current setting determining the MLR in all chemical evolution models and single stellar population calculations.
vice.mlr.recognized
:tuple
Contains the strings denoting allowed values for
vice.mlr.setting
.
vice.yields.agb.ventura13
New set of theoretically predicted asymptotic giant branch star yields compiled from the following set of papers:
- Ventura et al. (2013), MNRAS, 431, 3642 (Z = 0.0003, 0.008)
- Ventura et al. (2014), MNRAS, 437, 3274 (Z = 0.004)
- Ventura et al. (2018), MNRAS, 475, 2282 (Z = 0.014)
- Ventura et al. (2020), A&A, 641, A103 (Z = 0.04)
These tables also include unpublished yields from the same author at progenitor metallicities of Z = 0.001 and 0.002.
vice.yields.agb.karakas16
New set of theoretically predicted asymptotic giant branch star yields compiled from Karakas & Lugaro (2016), ApJ, 825, 26 and Karakas et al. (2018), MNRAS, 477, 421. The Karakas & Lugaro (2016) tables provide yields for progenitor metallicities of Z = 0.007, 0.014, and 0.03, while the Karakas et al. (2018) tables provide them for Z = 0.0028, a metallicity appropriate for stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud.
vice.yields.sneia.gronow21
New set of theoretically predicted type Ia supernova yields compiled from Gronow et al. (2021a), A&A, 649, 155 and Gronow et al. (2021b), arxiv:2103.14050. These studies report yields for double detonations of sub-Chandrasekhar mass white dwarfs at various progenitor metallicities. The Gronow et al. (2021a) study reports yields for white dwarf progenitors of solar metallicity, while Gronow et al. (2021b) report them for Z / Zsun = 0.01, 0.1, and 3.
vice.primordial
Primordial abundance of helium updated from 0.24672 to 0.24721 based on the findings of Pitrou et al. (2021), MNRAS, 502, 2474.
- Command-Line Functionality
When running
vice --tutorial
from the command line (or equivalently,python -m vice --tutorial
), VICE first attempts to download the examples/QuickStartTutorial.ipynb jupyter notebook to the install directory, and then launches it locally. If it cannot download the notebook, it will launch a previously downloaded version if it has one. In the event that no local copy exists and it cannot be downloaded, it will raise aRuntimeError
.
- Addressed single timestep level bug in elemental accretion rate from
- primordial gas affecting models ran in star formation and gas modes.
- Minor documentation updates
- Addressed spurrious warning regarding NaN main sequence turnoff mass
vice.dataframe.todict()
- Now returns a copy of the dictionary stored under the hood
vice.solar_z
:dataframe
Users may now modify their adopted solar composition.
vice.solar_z.epsilon_to_z_conversion
:staticmethod
New in this version. Converts number density relative to hydrogen to a mass fraction within the sun.
vice.elements.element.solar_z
Now allows assignment. Accesing and modifying a given element's solar abundance via
vice.solar_z
is equivalent to going through thevice.elements
module.
vice.elements.yield.agb
New in this version. Accessing and modifying a given element's asymptotic giant branch star yield via
vice.yields.agb.settings
is equivalent to going through thevice.elements
module.
vice.single_stellar_population
:function
Keyword argument
"agb_model"
deprecated, instead adopts the global asymptotic giant branch star yield.
vice.yields.agb.settings
:dataframe
New in this version. Users modify their adopted AGB star yields through a global setting, similar to their supernova yields, rather than specifying keyword arguments to functions and objects. Entries can be a function of progenitor stellar mass and metallicity, in that order, or a keyword denoting a built-in table of yields as in previous versions.
vice.yields.agb.interpolator
:object
New in this version. Conducts bi-linear interpolation of the asymptotic giant branch star yields sampled on a grid of masses and metallicities reported by a given study. Can be adopted as the global yield setting.
vice.yields.ccsne.fractional
:function
Keyword
"IMF"
can now be a user-defined function of stellar mass. New keyword arguments:"explodability"
,"wind"
,"net"
:"explodability"
: The fraction of stars which produce a core collapse supernova event as a function of progenitor zero age main sequence mass."wind"
: Whether or not to include stellar winds in the yield calculation."net"
: Whether or not to compute a net yield, otherwise computing gross yields.
vice.yields.ccsne.table
:function
New in this version. Reads in the table of progenitor masses and mass yields published in a given nucleosynthesis study. Will return the full isotopic breakdown if requested.
vice.yields.ccsne.engines
:module
New in this version. Contains popular built-in forms of black hole landscapes, both simple and complex. They can be adopted as the keyword argument
"explodability"
to thevice.yields.ccsne.fractional
function.vice.yields.ccsne.engines.engine
:object
Base class.
vice.yields.ccsne.engines.cutoff
:engine
Only stars up to some user-defined progenitor mass explode.
vice.yields.ccsne.engines.E16
:engine
Implements the Ertl et al. (2016) black hole landscape and variations thereof.
vice.yields.ccsne.engines.S16
:module
Module containing black hole landscapes computed in Sukhbold et al. (2016). The engines "N20", "S19p8", "W15", "W18", and "W20" are included with the same name as in the journal publication, with
"S19p8"
being an adaptation of "S19.8":vice.yields.ccsne.engines.S16.N20
:engine
vice.yields.ccsne.engines.S16.S19p8
:engine
vice.yields.ccsne.engines.S16.W15
:engine
vice.yields.ccsne.engines.S16.W18
:engine
vice.yields.ccsne.engines.S16.W20
:engine
vice.yields.ccsne.NKT13
:module
New in this version. Nomoto, Kobayashi & Tominaga (2013) core collapse supernova yield tables.
vice.yields.ccsne.S16
:module
New in this version. Sukhbold et al. (2016) nucleosynthetic yield tables.
vice.yields.ccsne.S16.N20
:module
Sukhbold et al. (2016) mass yield tables computed under the N20 explosion engine.
vice.yields.ccsne.S16.W18
:module
Sukhbold et al. (2016) mass yield tables computed under the W18 explosion engine.
vice.yields.ccsne.S16.W18F
:module
Sukhbold et al. (2016) mass yield tables computed under the W18 explosion engine, forcing explosions in the model stars which otherwise would not have done so.
vice.yields.sneia.settings
:dataframe
Now allows entries to be a function of progenitor metallicity.
vice.singlezone.IMF
:property
Now allows functions of stellar mass.
vice.singlezone.tau_star
:property
Now allows functions accepting two parameters as well as those accepting only one.
vice.singlezone.agb_model
:property
Deprecated in this version.
vice.multizone
:object
New in this version. Runs multi-zone GCE simulations within a highly flexible framework.
vice.milkyway
:multizone
New in this version. A subclass of the
multizone
object optimized for modeling Milky Way-like galaxies.
vice.migration
:module
New in this version. Provides a means with which to declare migration prescriptions for use in
multizone
models.
vice.output.agb_yields
:property
New in this version. Provides a snapshot of the global AGB star yield settings at the time an output was computed from a
singlezone
object.
vice.multioutput
:object
New in this version. Handles output from the
multizone
object.
vice.stars
:function
New in this version. Reads in the data containing the masses, abundances, and initial and final zone numbers of individual stellar populations from a
multizone
object's output.
vice.toolkit
:module
New in this version. Generally useful utilities.
vice.toolkit.hydrodisk
:module
Built-in stellar radial migration schema informed by hydrodynamical simulations.
vice.toolkit.hydrodisk.hydrodiskstars
:object
A stellar migration prescription based on star particles from a hydrodynamical simulation. Requires supplemental data available online which VICE will download automatically.
vice.toolkit.J21_sf_law
:object
A star formation law which implements the observationally motivated parameterization in Johnson et al. (2021) and variations thereof.
vice.toolkit.interpolation
:module
Interpolation schema.
vice.toolkit.interpolation.interp_scheme_1d
:object
1-dimensional interpolation scheme.
vice.toolkit.interpolation.interp_scheme_2d
:object
2-dimensional interpolation scheme.
Updated source code for Johnson & Weinberg (2020) figures following peer review.
New chemical element: helium (
he
)vice.primordial
:dataframe
Mapping from elements to their abundance by mass immediately following big bang nucleosynthesis.
vice.stable_isotopes
:dataframe
Mapping from elements to their non-radioactive isotopes.
- Nonzero post-main-sequence lifetimes.
vice.cumulative_return_fraction
vice.single_stellar_population
vice.singlezone.postMS
vice.dataframe.remove
:function
Remove a variable from a dataframe.
vice.dataframe.filter
:function
Remove variables from a dataframe based on some criteria.
vice.yields.presets
:module
Saved presets for nucleosynthetic yield settings.
- User-constructed presets
vice.yields.presets.JW20
: built-in preset for Johnson & Weinberg (2020) adopted nucleosynthetic yields.
vice.elements
:module
A means of accessing yields and other data on an element-by-element basis.
vice.imf
:module
Functional forms for popular stellar initial mass functions.
vice.singlezone.verbose
:property
Singlezone object can be set to print the simulation time as it runs.
vice.singlezone.from_output
:function
Obtain a singlezone object with the same parameters as the one which produced some output. Replaces
vice.mirror
(now deprecated).
vice.output.zip
andvice.output.unzip
:function
Zip and unzip VICE simulation output directories.
vice.VisibleRuntimeWarning
:Warning
A
RuntimeWarning
which - contrary to the built-in version - is visible by default.
vice.VisibleDeprecationWarning
:Warning
A
DeprecationWarning
which - contrary to the built-in version - is visible by default.
- Fixed a bug that didn't allow metal enhanced outflows in the
singlezone
object.
- Initial Relase