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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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11 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Searching for Signatures of i-process Nucleosynthesis in Metal-Rich, Lead-rich Barium Stars

Catherine Manea, Madeleine McKenzie, Gail Zasowski +6

The intermediate neutron-capture process (-process) has been invoked to explain the peculiar compositions of carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars enriched in both slow- ()…

astro-ph.SR2025

Predictions from -process AGB models of the isotopic variations of zirconium and neodymium for comparison to bulk meteorites

Maria Lugaro, Giulia C. Cinquegrana, Balázs Szányi +6

Bulk meteoritic data show isotopic variability of -neutron-capture (-process) origin in a several elements heavier than Fe. One peculiar feature is that the lighter -pr…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

Probing Binary Architectures of Lithium-Rich Giants in GALAH with COSMIC and Stellar Models

Maryum Sayeed, Selina Yang, Giulia Cinquegrana +5

Surface lithium is depleted when a star goes through the first dredge-up phase, yet of red giants are found to be Li-rich. The formation mechanism for these remains uncertain…

astro-ph.GA2025

Testing stellar yield prescriptions in OMEGA+: Implications for rising sodium abundances in young thick disc stars

Evans K. Owusu, Ashley J. Ruiter, Alex J. Kemp +8

We recently identified an upturn in [Na/Fe] for the population of Solar-type stars in the Galactic young thick disc () at super-Solar metallicity in…

astro-ph.SR2024

Stellar Evolution in Real Time II: R Hydrae and an Open-Source Grid of >3000 Seismic TP-AGB Models Computed with MESA

Meridith Joyce, László Molnár, Giulia Cinquegrana +3

We present a comprehensive characterization of the evolved thermally pulsing asymptotic giant branch (TP-AGB) star R Hydrae, building on the techniques applied in Stellar Evolution…

astro-ph.SR2023

Bridging the Gap between Intermediate and Massive Stars II: for the most metal-rich stars and implications for Fe CCSNe rates

Giulia C. Cinquegrana, Meridith Joyce, Amanda I. Karakas

The minimum initial mass required for a star to explode as an Fe core collapse supernova, typically denoted , is an important quantity in stellar evolution because it…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 16 cited

Bridging the Gap between Intermediate and Massive Stars I: Validation of MESA against the State-of-the-Art Monash Stellar Evolution Program for a 2 AGB Star

Giulia C. Cinquegrana, Meridith Joyce, Amanda I. Karakas

One--dimensional stellar structure and evolution programs are built using different physical prescriptions and algorithms, which means there can be variations between models' predi…

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.SR2022

Solar calibration of using ÆSOPUS opacities in MESA

Giulia C Cinquegrana, Meridith Joyce

The simplistic but ubiquitous Mixing Length Theory (MLT) formalism is used to model convective energy transport within 1D stellar evolution calculations. The formalism relies on th…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 20 cited

The most metal-rich stars in the universe: chemical contributions of low and intermediate mass asymptotic giant branch stars with metallicities between

Giulia C. Cinquegrana, Amanda I. Karakas

Low and intermediate mass stars with super solar metallicities comprise a known portion of the universe. Yet yields for asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars with metallicities great…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 17 cited

The most metal-rich asymptotic giant branch stars

Amanda Karakas, Giulia Cinquegrana, Meridith Joyce

We present new stellar evolutionary sequences of very metal-rich stars evolved with the Monash Stellar Structure code and with MESA. The Monash models include masses of $1-8M_{\odo…