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most citedModules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Time-Dependent Convection, Energy Conservation, Automatic Differentiation, and Infrastructure

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30 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Calibrating angular momentum transport in intermediate-mass stars from gravity-mode asteroseismology. II. Modelling 2937 BAF-type stars

J. S. G. Mombarg, S. Mathis

Asteroseismology of gravity (g)-mode pulsators covering BAF-type stars have shown that angular momentum is redistributed during the main sequence. The efficiency of the transport,…

astro-ph.SR2026

Gravity-mode main-sequence pulsators in the open clusters NGC 3532 and NGC 2516: Instability strip, near-core rotation, and internal structure

Gang Li, Chenyu He, Joey S. G. Mombarg +2

Context. Studying pulsating stars in clusters opens a new window onto stellar physics. Gravity-mode (g-mode) pulsators in open clusters allow us to measure their near-core rotation…

astro-ph.SR2025

Populations of tidal and pulsating variables in eclipsing binaries

Alex Kemp, Jasmine Vrancken, Joey S. G. Mombarg +4

In this work, we seek to characterise a large sample of 14377 main sequence eclipsing binaries in terms of their stellar, asteroseismic, and orbital properties. We conduct manual v…

astro-ph.SR2025

Is a 1D perturbative method sufficient for asteroseismic modelling of Cephei pulsators? Implications for measurements of rotation and internal magnetic fields

J. S. G. Mombarg, V. Vanlaer, S. B. Das +6

Asymmetries in the observed rotational splittings of a multiplet contain information about the star's rotation profile and internal magnetic field. However, to exploit this informa…

astro-ph.SR2025

The inertial dip as a window on the convective core dynamics

Lucas Barrault, Lisa Bugnet, Stéphane Mathis +1

Gamma Dor stars are ideal targets for studies of the innermost dynamical properties of stars, due to their rich frequency spectrum of gravito-inertial modes propagating in the radi…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 5 cited

Asteroseismology of the young open cluster NGC 2516 II. Constraining cluster age using gravity-mode pulsators

Gang Li, Joey S. G. Mombarg, Zhao Guo +1

Although asteroseismology is regarded as the most powerful tool for probing stellar interiors, seismic modelling remains dependent on global stellar parameters. Stellar clusters of…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

Exploring the probing power of gamma-Dor's inertial dip for core magnetism: case of a toroidal field

Lucas Barrault, Lisa Bugnet, Stéphane Mathis +1

Gamma-Dor stars are ideal targets for studies of stellar innermost dynamical properties due to their rich asteroseismic spectrum of gravity modes. Integrating internal magnetism to…

astro-ph.SR2025

Angular momentum relaxation in models of rotating early-type stars

Michel Rieutord, Enzo Enzo Brossier-Sécher, Joey Mombarg

The rotational evolution of stars is still an open question of stellar physics because of the numerous phenomena that can contribute to the distribution of angular momentum. This p…

astro-ph.SR2025

Evolution of the near-core rotation frequency of 2,497 intermediate-mass stars from their dominant gravito-inertial mode

Conny Aerts, Timothy Van Reeth, Joey S. G. Mombarg +1

We combined Gaia DR3 and TESS photometric light curves to estimate the internal physical properties of 2,497 gravity-mode pulsators. We relied on asteroseismic properties of Kepler…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 5 cited

Calibrating chemical mixing induced by internal gravity waves based on hydrodynamical simulations; The chemical evolution of OB-type stars

J. S. G. Mombarg, A. Varghese, R. P. Ratnasingam

Internal gravity waves (IGWs) have been shown to contribute to the transport of chemical elements in stars with a convective core and radiative envelope. Recent 2D hydrodynamical s…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 2 cited

KIC 4150611: A quadruply eclipsing heptuple star system with a g-mode period-spacing pattern Asteroseismic modelling of the g-mode period-spacing pattern

Alex Kemp, Dario J Fritzewski, Timothy Van Reeth +7

In this work, we aim to estimate the stellar parameters of the primary (Aa) by performing asteroseismic analysis on its period-spacing pattern. We use the C-3PO neural network to p…

astro-ph.SR2024

Estimates of (convective core) masses, radii, and relative ages for 14,000 Gaia-discovered gravity-mode pulsators monitored by TESS

Joey S. G. Mombarg, Conny Aerts, Timothy Van Reeth +1

Gravito-inertial asteroseismology saw its birth from the 4-years long light curves of rotating main-sequence stars assembled by the Kepler space telescope. High-precision measureme…

astro-ph.SR2024

An improved asteroseismic age of the rapid rotator Altair from TESS data

Michel Rieutord, Daniel R. Reese, Joey S. G. Mombarg +1

Understanding the effects of rotation in stellar evolution is key to modelling early-type stars, half of which have equatorial velocities over 100 km/s. The nearby star Altair is a…

astro-ph.SR2024

Probability distributions of initial rotation velocities and core-boundary mixing efficiencies of γ Doradus stars

Joey S. G. Mombarg, Conny Aerts, Geert Molenberghs

The theory the rotational and chemical evolution is incomplete, thereby limiting the accuracy of model-dependent stellar mass and age determinations. The Doradus pulsators are…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 28 cited

Asteroseismology of the young open cluster NGC 2516 I: Photometric and spectroscopic observations

Gang Li, Conny Aerts, Timothy R. Bedding +8

Asteroseismic modelling of isolated star presents significant challenges due to the difficulty in accurately determining stellar parameters, particularly the stellar age. These cha…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 25 cited

The first two-dimensional stellar structure and evolution models of rotating stars

Joey S. G. Mombarg, Michel Rieutord, Francisco Espinosa Lara

Rotation is a key ingredient in the theory of stellar structure and evolution. Until now, stellar evolution codes operate in a 1-D framework for which the validity domain in regard…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 18 cited

Calibrating angular momentum transport in intermediate-mass stars from gravity-mode asteroseismology

Joey S. G. Mombarg

The physical mechanisms driving the transport of angular momentum in stars are not fully understood, as current models cannot explain the observed stellar rotation profiles across…

astro-ph.SR2023

A calibration point for stellar evolution from massive star asteroseismology

Siemen Burssens, Dominic M. Bowman, Mathias Michielsen +10

Massive stars are progenitors of supernovae, neutron stars and black holes. During the hydrogen-core burning phase their convective cores are the prime drivers of their evolution,…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 599 cited

Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Time-Dependent Convection, Energy Conservation, Automatic Differentiation, and Infrastructure

Adam S. Jermyn, Evan B. Bauer, Josiah Schwab +19

We update the capabilities of the open-knowledge software instrument Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA). The new auto_diff module implements automatic different…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 27 cited

Predictions for gravity-mode periods and surface abundances in intermediate-mass dwarfs from shear mixing and radiative levitation

Joey S. G. Mombarg, Aaron Dotter, Michel Rieutord +3

The treatment of chemical mixing in the radiative envelopes of intermediate-mass stars has hardly been calibrated so far. Recent asteroseismic studies demonstrated that a constant…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 24 cited

Rossby numbers and stiffness values inferred from gravity-mode asteroseismology of rotating F- and B-type dwarfs: consequences for mixing, transport, magnetism, and convective penetration

C. Aerts, K. Augustson, S. Mathis +5

Multi-dimensional (magneto-)hydrodynamical simulations of physical processes in stellar interiors depend on a multitude of uncalibrated free parameters, which set the spatial and t…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 28 cited

A homogeneous spectroscopic analysis of a Kepler legacy sample of dwarfs for gravity-mode asteroseismology

Sarah Gebruers, Ilya Straumit, Andrew Tkachenko +12

Asteroseismic modelling of the internal structure of main-sequence stars born with a convective core has so far been based on homogeneous analyses of space photometric Kepler light…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 63 cited

Constraining stellar evolution theory with asteroseismology of Doradus stars using deep learning

Joey S. G. Mombarg, Timothy Van Reeth, Conny Aerts

The efficiency of the transport of angular momentum and chemical elements inside intermediate-mass stars lacks proper calibration, thereby introducing uncertainties on a star's evo…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 23 cited

The effect of the centrifugal acceleration on period spacings of gravito-inertial modes in intermediate-mass stars

Jan Henneco, Timothy Van Reeth, Vincent Prat +3

The Kepler and TESS missions delivered high-precision, long-duration photometric time series for hundreds of main-sequence stars with gravito-inertial (g) pulsation modes. This hig…