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+title: 'pynucastro: an interface to nuclear reaction rates and code generator for reaction network equations'
+
+tags:
+- nuclear
+- reactions
+- astrophysics
+- physics
+- integration
+- differential equations
+
+authors:
+- name: AMReX-Astro Microphysics Development Team
+
+affiliations:
+
+date: 27 January 2018
+
+bibliography: paper.bib
+---
+
+# Summary
+
+The AMReX-Astrophysics Microphysics library provides a common set of
+microphysics routines (reaction networks, equations of state, and
+other transport coefficients) for astrophysical simulation codes built
+around the AMReX library.
+
+# History
+
+This project started out as Starkiller Microphysics, which was an
+attempt to codevelop microphysics routines for the Castro and Flash
+simulation codes.  Originally the library used Fortran and was
+restricted to CPUs, but C++ ports were added over time to take
+advantage of GPU-offloading afforded by the AMReX library.  Eventually
+as the development of the two codes diverged, the C++ ports of the
+Microphysis were split off into the AMReX-Astrophysics Microphysics
+library.  Today, the library is completely written in C++ and relies
+on the AMReX data structures.  
+
+# Design
+
+Porting many classic solvers from old Fortran to C++
+
+header-only library as much as possible
+
+C++17
+
+pynucastro integration
+
+
+# Capabilities
+
+
+
+# Unit tests / examples
+
+
+# References
+