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We present IRIS, a new generic three-dimensional (3D) spectral radiative transfer code that generates synthetic spectra, or images. It can be used as a diagnostic tool for comparison with astrophysical observations or laboratory…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 L. Ibgui , I. Hubeny , T. Lanz , C. Stehlé

In this note we present the starry_process code, which implements an interpretable Gaussian process (GP) for modeling variability in stellar light curves. As dark starspots rotate in and out of view, the total flux received from a distant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Rodrigo Luger , Daniel Foreman-Mackey , Christina Hedges

Cles is an evolution code recently developed to produce stellar models meeting the specific requirements of studies in asteroseismology. It offers the users a lot of choices in the input physics they want in their models and its versatility…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 R. Scuflaire , S. Theado , J. Montalban , A. Miglio , P. -O. Bourge , M. Godart , A. Thoul , A. Noels

We present a novel and powerful Compressible High-ORder Unstructured Spectral-difference (CHORUS) code for simulating thermal convection and related fluid dynamics in the interiors of stars and planets. The computational geometries are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Junfeng Wang , Chunlei Liang , Mark S. Miesch

We present some results of long term studies of pulsating stars conducted in the course of the OGLE and Araucaria projects. In particular very scarce eclipsing binaries containing pulsating stars are discussed. Such systems provide a unique…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Grzegorz Pietrzynski

Although asteroseismology is regarded as the most powerful tool for probing stellar interiors, seismic modelling remains dependent on global stellar parameters. Stellar clusters offer direct measurements of these parameters by fitting a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Gang Li , Joey S. G. Mombarg , Zhao Guo , Conny Aerts

Stellar systems are broadly divided into collisional and non-collisional. The latter are large-N systems with long relaxation timescales and can be simulated disregarding two-body interactions, while either computationally expensive direct…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-05 Pierfrancesco Di Cintio , Mario Pasquato , Hyunwoo Kim , Suk-Jin Yoon

We introduce a new 1D stellar spectral synthesis Python code called stardis. stardis is a modular, open-source radiative transfer code that is capable of spectral synthesis from near-UV to IR for FGK stars. We describe the structure,…

We introduce version two of the fast star cluster evolution code Evolve Me A Cluster of StarS (EMACSS). The first version (Alexander & Gieles) assumed that cluster evolution is balanced for the majority of the life-cycle, meaning that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Mark Gieles , Poul Alexander , Henny Lamers , Holger Baumgardt

Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA; (Paxton2011, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2019, Jermyn 2023) is a widely used open-source software for modelling stellar evolution. In many studies, the computational grids covers thousands of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-12 D. Tarczay-Nehéz

In the era of large time-domain spectro-photometric surveys, surface variations such as starspots, chemical inhomogeneities, pulsations, rotational distortions, and binary interactions can now be directly detected and modelled. Accurately…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 M. Jabłońska , T. Różański , L. Casagrande , H. Shah , P. A. Kołaczek-Szymański , M. Rychlicki , Yuan-Sen Ting

We present MUSE, a software framework for combining existing computational tools for different astrophysical domains into a single multiphysics, multiscale application. MUSE facilitates the coupling of existing codes written in different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simon Portegies Zwart , Steve McMillan , Stefan Harfst , Derek Groen , Michiko Fujii

We update the capabilities of the software instrument Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) and enhance its ease of use and availability. Our new approach to locating convective boundaries is consistent with the physics of…

The nonlinear gyrokinetic code GS2 has been extended to treat non-axisymmetric stellarator geometry. Electromagnetic perturbations and multiple trapped particle regions are allowed. Here, linear, collisionless, electrostatic simulations of…

We perform an extensive test of theoretical stellar models for main-sequence stars in ugriz, using cluster fiducial sequences obtained in the previous paper of this series. We generate a set of isochrones using the Yale Rotating…

Current stellar model predictions of adiabatic oscillation frequencies differ significantly from the corresponding observed frequencies due to the non-adiabatic and poorly understood near-surface layers of stars. However, certain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Kuldeep Verma , Jakob L. Rørsted , Aldo M. Serenelli , Víctor Aguirre Børsen-Koch , Mark L. Winther , Amalie Stokholm

We introduce \textsc{Odisseo} (Optimized Differentiable Integrator for Stellar Systems Evolution of Orbits), a differentiable N-body code designed to constrain the gravitational potential of the Milky Way (MW) through dynamical modeling of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-01 Giuseppe Viterbo , Tobias Buck

Stellar oscillations can provide a wealth of information about a star, which can be extracted from observed time series of the star's brightness or radial velocity. In this paper we address the question of how to extract as much information…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Brendon J. Brewer , Timothy R. Bedding , Hans Kjeldsen , Dennis Stello

Period estimation is an important task in the classification of many variable astrophysical objects. Here we present GRAPE: Genetic Routine for Astronomical Period Estimation, a genetic algorithm optimised for the processing of survey data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-19 Paul R. McWhirter , Iain A. Steele , Abir Hussain , Dhiya Al-Jumeily , Marley M. B. R. Vellasco

We substantially update the capabilities of the open source software package Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA), and its one-dimensional stellar evolution module, MESA Star. Improvements in MESA Star's ability to model…