libNeST Documentation

libNeST stands for Library for Neutron Star Toolkit. It contains a variety of tools that help with handling the complicated physics of neutron stars. The aim is to enable users to work with and learn about the physics of nuclear matter inside a neutron star without worrying about the complexity of Skyrme functionals or data formats.

See also

The following projects are strongly interconnected:

• WSLDA Toolkit

• WBSK Toolkit

• py-WDATA

Contributors

• Monika Marek (2023) - mm1707

  Developed module tools.

• Aleksandra Bochenek (2022) - pirrx

  Developed bsk by implementing and testing equations for the Brussels-Montreal family of density functionals.

• Adarsh Karekkat (2025) - O-slyfox-O

  Added pairing interpolation schemes to bsk for newer Bsk models including BskG4.

Acknowledgments

Funding

• Sonata 20 (2025-)

  Grant no. 2024/55/D/ST2/01516

• Sonatina 5 (2021-2024)

  Grant no. 2021/40/C/ST2/00072 supported the development of this project.

  

Computational grants

LUMI Consortium

We acknowledge the Polish high-performance computing infrastructure PLGrid for awarding access to the LUMI supercomputer, owned by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, hosted by CSC (Finland) and the LUMI consortium through grants PLL/2022/03/016433 and PLL/2023/04/016476.

Modules

• Module: Units
• KtoMev()
• MeVtoK()
• fm3togcm3()
• gcm3tofm3()
• Module: Definitions
• Module: BSk
• Module: IO
• Module: Pasta
• Module: Plots
• Module: Tools

Examples

• Tutorial
• Plots
• Inner Crust

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page