SpaceHub

SpaceHub is a state-of-the-art few-body gravity integration toolkit built in C++. It implements Algorithmic Regularization (AR) and symplectic integrators to handle scenarios that break conventional codes:

$ spacehub --status
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  SpaceHub v1.0                              │
│  Extreme mass ratios      ✓                 │
│  High eccentricities      ✓                 │
│  Close encounters         ✓                 │
│  Round-off error control  ✓                 │
│  Long-term integration    ✓                 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Key Features:

  • Algorithmic Regularization for extreme mass ratios (e.g., SMBH + stellar-mass objects)
  • Symplectic integrators ensuring time-reversibility
  • Rigorous round-off error control for long-term orbital evolution
  • Easy-to-use API designed for community adoption
  • Applications: SMBH binaries, planetary system evolution, chaotic star clusters

Publication: Wang et al. (2021), MNRAS, 505, 1053

Yihan Wang
Yihan Wang
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Assistant Professor at HKU, Fall 2026)

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