Versatile Integrator for Chemical Evolution

VICE is a user-friendly python package designed to model chemical enrichment in galaxies.

• 77 elements on the periodic table
• Fast integration of one-zone models
• Enrichment from single stellar populations
• Highly flexible nucleosynthetic yield calculations

• User-defined mathematical forms describing:

  • Nucleosynthetic yields in simulations
  • Mixing processes in multi-zone models
  • Infall and star formation histories
  • The stellar initial mass function
  • The star formation law
  • Element-by-element infall metallicities
  • Type Ia supernova delay-time distributions

Quick Links

• Install VICE

  • Dependencies
  • Installing from Source
  • Troubleshoot Your Build

• Usage

  • Tutorial
  • Example Code
  • From the Command Line

• Join our Slack Community
• Documentation
• Submit a Bug Report
• Cite VICE
• Acknowledgements
• License

Journal Related Features

Under starbursts, we provide the python code which runs the simulations and produces the figures in Johnson & Weinberg (2020). Under migration, we provide the same for Johnson et al. (2021).