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We present a database of the latest stellar models of the $Y^2$ (Yonsei-Yale) collaboration. This database contains the stellar evolutionary tracks from the pre-main-sequence birthline to the helium core flash that were used to construct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sukyoung K. Yi , Yong -Cheol Kim , Pierre Demarque

Globular clusters (GCs) provide statistically significant coeval populations of stars spanning various evolutionary stages, allowing robust constraints on stellar evolution model parameters and ages. We analyze eight old Milky Way GCs with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-07 Jiaqi , Ying , Brian Chaboyer , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Daniel Weisz , Rowan Goebel-Bain

Asteroseismology using space-based telescopes is vital to our understanding of stellar structure and evolution. {\textit{CoRoT}}, {\textit{Kepler}}, and {\textit{TESS}} space telescopes have detected large numbers of solar-like oscillating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Z. Çelik Orhan , M. Yıldız , C. Kayhan

A new set of evolutionary synthesis spectra are presented for {\bf S}imple {\bf S}tellar {\bf P}opulations ({\bf SSP}s) covering ranges in metallicity from $ 0.02 \leq Z/Z_{\odot} \leq 2.5$ and ages from $4\cdot 10^6$ yr $\leq t \leq 16$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Schulz , U. Fritze - v. Alvensleben , C. S. Moeller , K. J. Fricke

The stellar populations of galaxies hold vital clues to their formation histories. In this paper we present results based on modeling stacked spectra of early-type galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) as a function of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Charlie Conroy , Genevieve Graves , Pieter van Dokkum

Recently, the first successful attempt at computing stellar models in two dimensions has been presented with models that include the centrifugal deformation and self-consistently compute the velocity field. This paper aims at studying the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-18 Joey S. G. Mombarg , Michel Rieutord , Francisco Espinosa Lara

The ages of pulsating stars in clusters can be determined by isochrone fitting and it can be further improved by asteroseismic modelling. We analyse the intermediate-age open cluster NGC2477, known to suffer from differential extinction, to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 D. B. Palakkatharappil , O. L. Creevey

The evolution of gaseous planets is a complex process influenced by various physical parameters and processes. In this study, we present critical modifications to the Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) code to enhance…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-11 Ravit Helled , Simon Müller , Henrik Knierim

Asteroseismology, the study of stellar oscillations, and stellar modeling both offer profound insights into the fundamental properties and evolution of stars. With pySYD, a new open-source Python package, we were able to constrain the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Sophia Grusnis , Jamie Tayar , Diego Godoy-Rivera

The detection of oscillations with a mixed character in subgiants and red giants allows us to probe the physical conditions in their cores. With these mixed modes, we aim at determining seismic markers of stellar evolution. Kepler…

MASSCLEAN is a new, sophisticated and robust stellar cluster image and photometry simulation package. This package is able to create color-magnitude diagrams and standard FITS images in any of the traditional optical and near-infrared bands…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Bogdan Popescu , M. M. Hanson

We are carrying out a search for planets around a sample of solar twin stars using the HARPS spectrograph. The goal of this project is to exploit the advantage offered by solar twins to obtain chemical abundances of unmatched precision.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-03 I. Ramirez , J. Melendez , J. Bean , M. Asplund , M. Bedell , T. Monroe , L. Casagrande , L. Schirbel , S. Dreizler , J. Teske , M. Tucci Maia , A. Alves-Brito , P. Baumann

Mass loss due to line-driven winds is central to our understanding of the evolution of massive stars. We extend the evolution models introduced in Paper I, where the mass loss recipe is based on the simultaneous calculation of the wind…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Alex Camilo Gormaz-Matamala , Jorge Cuadra , Georges Meynet , Michel Curé

We propose a mixture model of open clusters (OCs) in the color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) to measure the OC properties, including isochrone parameters (age, distance, metallicity, and dust extinction), stellar mass function (MF), and binary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-18 Lu Li , Zhengyi Shao

Age and mass determinations for isolated stellar objects remain model-dependent. While stellar interior and atmospheric theoretical models are rapidly evolving, we need a powerful tool to test them. Open clusters are good candidates for…

The simplistic but ubiquitous Mixing Length Theory (MLT) formalism is used to model convective energy transport within 1D stellar evolution calculations. The formalism relies on the free parameter $\alpha_{\rm MLT}$, which must be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-14 Giulia C Cinquegrana , Meridith Joyce

We construct evolutionary synthesis models for simple stellar populations using the evolutionary tracks from the Padova group (1993, 1994), theoretical colour calibrations from Lejeune et al., and fit functions for stellar atmospheric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 O. M. Kurth , U. Fritze - v. Alvensleben , K. J. Fricke

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

We summarize the main results from MODEST-1, the first workshop on MOdeling DEnse STellar systems. Our goal is to go beyond traditional population synthesis models, by introducing dynamical interactions between single stars, binaries, and…

About a quarter of massive binary stars undergo mass transfer while both stars burn hydrogen at their cores, first on the thermal and then on the nuclear timescale. The nuclear timescale mass transfer leads to observable counterparts: the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 K. Sen , N. Langer , P. Marchant , A. Menon , S. E. de Mink , A. Schootemeijer , C. Schürmann , L. Mahy , B. Hastings , K. Nathaniel , H. Sana , C. Wang , X. T. Xu