A simple C99 rewrite of the original Mercury software initially created by John E. Chambers. It is the NBody integrator based on Bulirsh-Stoer, Everhart and other methods.
Building requires gcc (version 4.8+) and make. Once downloaded,
open a shell in the directory and type:
make all
A libmercury.so file will be produced. Warning: this is non-portable (specific to your platform) by default!
Testing is simple. Simply run:
make test
and a small test executable (default: main.c -> main.bin) will execute.
- John E. Chambers
- Hal Levison
- Martin Duncan
CMercury is published under the LGPLv3. See COPYING for details.
If you publish the results of calculations using (C)MERCURY, please
reference the package using J.E.Chambers (1999) "A Hybrid
Symplectic Integrator that Permits Close Encounters between
Massive Bodies". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society, vol 304, pp793-799.