2 papers
astro-ph.SR2025
The Impact of Initial Mass Dependent Convective Boundary Mixing on the Structure and Fates of Massive Stars
Emily E. Whitehead, Raphael Hirschi, Vishnu Varma +4
While convection has been known to play a key role in stars for many decades, its implementation in one-dimensional stellar evolution codes still represents a major uncertainty tod…
astro-ph.SR2024
Evolving massive stars to core collapse with GENEC: Extension of equation of state, opacities and effective nuclear network
Adam Griffiths, Miguel-Ã Aloy, Raphael Hirschi +6
Stars with initial mass above roughly 8 solar masses will evolve to form a core made of iron group elements at which point no further exothermic nuclear reactions between charged n…