5 papers
MESA Isochrones and Stellar Tracks (MIST). I: Solar-Scaled Models
Jieun Choi, Aaron Dotter, Charlie Conroy +3
This is the first of a series of papers presenting the Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) Isochrones and Stellar Tracks (MIST) project, a new comprehensive set…
Carbon Shell or Core Ignitions in White Dwarfs Accreting from Helium Stars
Jared Brooks, Lars Bildsten, Josiah Schwab +1
White dwarfs accreting from helium stars can stably burn at the accreted rate and avoid the challenge of mass loss associated with unstable Helium burning that is a concern for man…
AM Canum Venaticorum Progenitors with Helium Star Donors and the resultant Explosions
Jared Brooks, Lars Bildsten, Pablo Marchant +1
We explore the outcome of mass transfer via Roche lobe overflow (RLOF) of pure helium burning stars in close binaries with white dwarfs (WDs). The…
Models of Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources with Intermediate-Mass Black Holes
N. Madhusudhan, S. Justham, L. Nelson +4
We have computed models for ultraluminous X-ray sources ("ULXs") consisting of a black-hole accretor of intermediate mass ("IMBH"; e.g., ~1000 Msun) and a captured donor star. For…
It's EZ to Evolve ZAMS Stars: A Program Derived from Eggleton's Stellar Evolution Code
Bill Paxton
"Evolve ZAMS", "EZ" for short, is derived from Peter Eggleton's stellar evolution program. The core of EZ is a stripped down, rewritten version of a subset of Eggleton's code, spec…