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It's EZ to Evolve ZAMS Stars: A Program Derived from Eggleton's Stellar Evolution Code

Astrophysics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

"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, specialized to handle single star evolution from the zero-age main sequence until forced to stop by an event such as a helium flash or a crystallizing core. The procedure and data interfaces to the program are designed to be easy to use while still providing a wide range of function. EZ is written in Fortran 95 following current programming practices and can be downloaded from http://theory.kitp.ucsb.edu/~paxton/.

Cite

@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0405130,
  title  = {It's EZ to Evolve ZAMS Stars: A Program Derived from Eggleton's Stellar Evolution Code},
  author = {Bill Paxton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0405130},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

2 pages. To appear in PASP. Download tar file with source code, data, and instructions for building EZ from http://theory.kitp.ucsb.edu/~paxton/ -- website has more information and pdf's for many plots of stellar evolution