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VPLanet: The Virtual Planet Simulator

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Barnes,  Rory
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Max Planck Society and Cooperation Partners;

Luger,  Rodrigo
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Max Planck Society and Cooperation Partners;

Deitrick,  Russell
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Max Planck Society and Cooperation Partners;

Driscoll,  Peter
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Max Planck Society and Cooperation Partners;

Quinn,  Thomas
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Max Planck Society and Cooperation Partners;

Fleming,  David
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Max Planck Society and Cooperation Partners;

Smotherman,  Hayden
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Max Planck Society and Cooperation Partners;

McDonald,  Diego
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Max Planck Society and Cooperation Partners;

Wilhelm,  Caitlyn
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Max Planck Society and Cooperation Partners;

Garcia,  Rodolfo
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Max Planck Society and Cooperation Partners;

Barth,  Patrick
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Max Planck Society and Cooperation Partners;

Guyer,  Benjamin
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Max Planck Society and Cooperation Partners;

Meadows,  Victoria
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Max Planck Society and Cooperation Partners;

Bitz,  Cecilia
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Max Planck Society and Cooperation Partners;

Gupta,  Pramod
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Max Planck Society and Cooperation Partners;

Domagal-Goldman,  Shawn
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Max Planck Society and Cooperation Partners;

Armstrong,  John
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Max Planck Society and Cooperation Partners;

Crsip,  David
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Max Planck Society and Cooperation Partners;

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https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019DDA....50P..12B
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Barnes, R., Luger, R., Deitrick, R., Driscoll, P., Quinn, T., Fleming, D., et al. (2019). VPLanet: The Virtual Planet Simulator. In AAS/Division of Dynamical Astronomy Meeting.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-D42B-C
Abstract
We present a software package called VPLanet that can simulate numerous aspects of planetary system evolution for billions of years, with a focus on habitable worlds. In this initial version, eleven independent models for internal, atmospheric, rotational, orbital, stellar, and galactic processes are included and coupled to self-consistently simulate terrestrial planets, gaseous planets, and stars. We describe these models and reproduce observations and/or past results. In our framework, only the relevant physics is applied to each member of the system, facilitating the rapid simulation of a wide range of planetary systems. A key feature of VPLanet is that the user can determine at runtime which physics to apply to an individual object, so a single executable can simulate the diverse phenomena that are important across a wide range of planetary and stellar systems. This flexibility is enabled by matrices and vectors of function pointers that are dynamically allocated and populated based on user input. VPLanet is publicly available and the repository contains extensive documentation and numerous examples, with code integrity maintained through continuous integration and periodic scanning for memory issues.