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We present a new Bayesian approach to constrain the intrinsic parameters (stellar mass, age) of the eclipsing binary system CEP0227 in the LMC. We computed evolutionary models covering a broad range in chemical compositions and in stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 P. G. Prada Moroni , M. Gennaro , G. Bono , G. Pietrzynski , W. Gieren , B. Pilecki , D. Graczyk , I. B. Thompson , .

Context. Massive contact binaries are both stellar merger and gravitational wave progenitors, but their evolution is still uncertain. An open problem in the population synthesis of massive contact binaries is the predicted mass ratio…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Jelle Vandersnickt , Matthias Fabry

Helium-burning stars, in particular Cepheids, are especially difficult to model, as the choice of free parameters can greatly impact the shape of the blue loops - the part of the evolutionary track at which instability strip is crossed.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-15 Oliwia Ziółkowska , Radosław Smolec , Anne Thoul , Eoin Farrell , Rajeev Singh Rathour , Vincent Hocdé

Some physical processes that occur during a star's main-sequence evolution also affect its post main-sequence evolution. It is well known that stars with masses above approximately 1.1 $M_{\odot}$ have well-mixed convective cores on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-21 Christopher J. Lindsay , J. M. Joel Ong , Sarbani Basu

The mass discrepancy problem, observed in high-mass stars within eclipsing binaries, highlights systematic differences between dynamical and evolutionary mass estimates, challenging the accuracy of stellar evolution models. We aim to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Nadya Serebriakova , Andrew Tkachenko , Cole Johnston , Krešimir Pavlovski , Conny Aerts

We explore the role of mass loss and convective core overshoot in the evolution of Classical Cepheids. Stellar evolution models are computed with a recipe for pulsation-driven mass loss and it is found that mass loss alone is unable to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-24 Hilding R. Neilson , Matteo Cantiello , Norbert Langer

We investigated the possibility of using two recently characterised triply eclipsing triple systems to constrain stellar model parameters. We specifically focused on evaluating the influence of the underlying astrophysical assumptions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-11 G. Valle , M. Dell'Omodarme , P. G. Prada Moroni , S. Degl'Innocenti

High-precision stellar mass and radius measured directly from binaries can effectively calibrate the stellar models. However, such a database containing full spectral types and large range of metallicity is still not fully established. A…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 Jianping Xiong , Chao Liu , Jiao Li , Jiadong Li , Bo Zhang , Xiaodian Chen , Changqing Luo , Zihuang Cao , Yongheng Zhao

We extend the {\sl\,PARSEC} library of stellar evolutionary tracks by computing new models of massive stars, from 14\Msun to 350\Msun. The input physics is the same used in the {\sl\,PARSEC}~V1.1 version, but for the mass-loss rate which is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-08 Jing Tang , Alessandro Bressan , Philip Rosenfield , Alessandra Slemer , Paola Marigo , Léo Girardi , Luciana Bianchi

Based on GAIA EDR3, we revisit and update our sample of bonafide single stars in the Hyades open cluster. The small observational uncertainties in parallax and photometry of EDR3 result in a tightly defined stellar sequence, which is ideal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-11 Wolfgang Brandner , Per Calissendorff , Taisiya Kopytova

Convective-core overshoot mixing is a significant uncertainty in stellar evolution. Because numerical simulations and turbulent convection models predict exponentially decreasing radial rms turbulent velocity, a popular treatment of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Qian-Sheng Zhang , Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard , Yan Li

Seventy-two grids of stellar evolutionary tracks, along with the capability to generate isochrones and luminosity/color functions from them, are presented in this investigation. Sixty of them extend (and encompass) the sets of models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-29 Don A. VandenBerg , Peter A. Bergbusch , Patrick D. Dowler

We perform two-dimensional numerical simulations of core convection for zero-age-main-sequence stars covering a mass range from 3 $M_\odot$ to 20 $M_\odot$. The simulations are performed with the fully compressible time-implicit code MUSIC.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 I. Baraffe , J. Clarke , A. Morison , D. G. Vlaykov , T. Constantino , T. Goffrey , T. Guillet , A. Le Saux , J. Pratt

Overshooting and semiconvection are among the most uncertainties in the evolution of massive stars. Complete mixing over a certain distance beyond the convective boundary (Stothers \& Chin 1985) and an exponentially decaying diffusion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Yan Li , Xing-hao Chen , Hai-liang Chen

We discuss the effects of convective overshooting in the PMS evolution of intermediate mass stars, by analysing in detail the early evolution towards the main sequence of a 2 M_sun stellar model. These effects can be extremely important in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. P. Marques , M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro , J. Fernandes

Modern tools for modeling stellar evolution, such as MESA (Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics), offer state-of-the-art implementations of stellar theories. However, this parametric approach introduces many free parameters that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 O. Ziółkowska , R. Smolec , A. Thoul , R. Singh Rathour , V. Hocdé

Pulsations and binarity are both common features of massive stars. The study of pulsating massive stars in eclipsing binary systems hold great potential for constraining stellar structure and evolution theory. However, prior to the all-sky…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 John Southworth , Dominic M. Bowman

Because Cepheid variable stars have long been used as a cosmic benchmark, the accuracy of stellar evolution models for Cepheids have wide-reaching effects. Our goal is to provide a detailed multi-dimensional picture of hydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Maxime Stuck , Jane Pratt , Isabelle Baraffe , Joyce Ann Guzik , Mary-Geer Dethero , Dimitar Vlaykov , Tom Goffrey , Arthur Le Saux

Stellar fundamental properties (masses, radii, effective temperatures) can be extracted from observations of eclipsing binary systems with remarkable precision, often better than 2%. Such precise measurements afford us the opportunity to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-10 Gregory A. Feiden

Mixing in the convective core is quite uncertain in core helium burning stars. In order to explore the overshooting mixing beyond the convective core, we incorporated the $k$-$\omega$ proposed by Li (2012, 2017) into MESA, and investigated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Yan Li , Xing-hao Chen , He-ran Xiong , Jun-jun Guo , Xue-fei Chen , Zhan-wen Han