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most citedModules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA)

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210 papers

astro-ph.SR2023

OGLE-BLAP-009 -- A Case Study for the Properties and Evolution of Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators

Corey W. Bradshaw, Matti Dorsch, Thomas Kupfer +5

Blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs) make up a rare class of hot pulsating stars with effective temperatures of 30,000 K and surface gravities of 4.0 - 5.0 dex (cgs). Th…

astro-ph.SR2023

The Asteroseismological Richness of RCB and dLHdC Stars

Tin Long Sunny Wong, Lars Bildsten

RCB stars are solar-mass objects that can exhibit large periods of extinction from dust ejection episodes. Many exhibit semiregular pulsations in the rang…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 13 cited

The effect of the adiabatic assumption on asteroseismic scaling relations for luminous red giants

Joel C. Zinn, Marc H. Pinsonneault, Lars Bildsten +1

Although stellar radii from asteroseismic scaling relations agree at the percent level with independent estimates for main sequence and most first-ascent red giant branch stars, th…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 16 cited

Turbulence Supported Massive Star Envelopes

William Schultz, Lars Bildsten, Yan-Fei Jiang

The outer envelopes of massive () stars exhibit large increases in opacities from forests of lines and ionization transitions (particularly from iron and hel…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 15 cited

Dynamical He Flashes in Double White Dwarf Binaries

Tin Long Sunny Wong, Lars Bildsten

The detonation of an overlying helium layer on a carbon-oxygen (CO) white dwarf (WD) can detonate the CO WD and create a thermonuclear supernova (SN).…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 33 cited

Giant planet engulfment by evolved giant stars: light curves, asteroseismology, and survivability

Christopher E. O'Connor, Lars Bildsten, Matteo Cantiello +1

About ten percent of Sun-like (-) stars will engulf a - planet as they expand during the red giant branch (RGB) or asymptotic giant branch (AGB) phas…