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We present the first detailed three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamic implicit large eddy simulations of turbulent convection of carbon burning in massive stars. Simulations begin with radial profiles mapped from a carbon burning shell within a…

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Stars spend most of their lifetime on the main sequence (MS), where hydrogen burning establishes the internal chemical structure that governs the subsequent evolution. In massive stars, mass loss through winds and binary interactions can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Adam Brček , Ryosuke Hirai , Ilya Mandel , Harmony Lower

We investigate the structural and asteroseismic consequences of mass accretion in massive stars within close binary systems. Using MESA, we model the evolution of the 10 M$_{\odot}$ accretor through and after a Roche lobe overflow phase. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 A. Miszuda , Z. Guo , R. H. D. Townsend

A significant fraction of all metal-poor stars are carbon-rich. Most of these carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars also show enhancement in elements produced mainly by the s-process (CEMP-s stars) and evidence suggests that the origin of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-13 E. Matrozis , R. J. Stancliffe

The treatment of convective boundaries during core helium burning is a fundamental problem in stellar evolution calculations. In Paper~I we showed that new asteroseismic observations of these stars imply they have either very large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Thomas Constantino , Simon W. Campbell , John C. Lattanzio , Adam van Duijneveldt

Uncertainties on central mixing in main sequence (MS) and core He-burning (He-B) phases affect key predictions of stellar evolution such as late evolutionary phases, chemical enrichment, ages etc. We propose a test of the extension of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Montalban , A. Miglio , A. Noels , M. -A. Dupret , R. Scuflaire , P. Ventura

The uncertainties in the modelling of some important inputs of stellar evolution must be taken into account for a correct interpretation, both of the HR diagrams of individual stars, and of the integrated colors, of stellar clusters. After…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. D'Antona

We investigate the evolution of collisionally merged stars with mass of ~100 MSun which might be formed in dense star clusters. We assumed that massive stars with several tens Msun collide typically after ~1Myr of the formation of the…

Inferences from observations clearly show that mixing in stars extends beyond the convective boundaries defined by mixing length theory. This triggered the proposal of a variety of prescriptions to include additional mixing in stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-01 Lynn Buchele

The success or failure of the neutrino-transport mechanism for producing a supernova in an evolved massive star is known to be sensitive not only to the mass of the iron core that collapses, but also to the density gradient in the silicon…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Tuguldur Sukhbold , Stan Woosley

The subsurface convective zones (CZs) of massive stars significantly influences many of their key characteristics. Previous studies have paid little attention to the impact of rotation on the subsurface convective zone (CZ), so we aim to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-23 Xiao-long He , Guo-liang Lv , Chun-hua Zhu , Lin Li , He-lei Liu , Su-fen Guo , Xi-zhen Lu , Lei Li , Hao Wang

Context: Intermediate-Mass stars are often overlooked as they are not supernova progenitors but still host convective cores and complex atmospheres which require computationally expensive treatment. Due to this, there is a general lack of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 C. Johnston , K. Pavlovski , A. Tkachenko

The convective overshoot mixing plays an important role in stellar structure and evolution. However, the overshoot mixing is a long standing problem. The uncertainty of the overshoot mixing is one of the most uncertain factors in stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-16 Q. S. Zhang

The era of detailed asteroseismic analyses opened by space missions such as CoRoT and $\textit{Kepler}$ has highlighted the need for stellar models devoid of numerical inaccuracies, in order to be able to diagnose which physical aspects are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-24 Maurice Gabriel , Arlette Noels , Josefina Montalban , Andrea Miglio

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…

We review the current state of modeling convective mixing in AGB stars. The focus is on results obtained through multi-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of AGB convection, both in the envelope and the unstable He-shell. Using two…

We investigate the evolution of the surface properties of models for rotating massive stars, i.e., their luminosities, effective temperatures, surface rotational velocities, and surface abundances of all isotopes, from the zero age main…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-29 A. Heger , N. Langer

We present a detailed comparison between an extended set of elemental abundances observed in some of the most metal poor stars presently known and the ejecta produced by a generation of primordial core collapse supernovae. We used five…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alessandro Chieffi , Marco Limongi

We briefly review the main problems related to the computation of the evolution of intermediate-mass stars: the treatment of turbulent convection and the occurrence of blue loops during the core He-burning phase. It is shown that, in order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Cassisi

We want to investigate how planet formation is imprinted on stellar surface composition using up-to-date stellar evolution models. We simulate the evolution of pre-main-sequence stars as a function of the efficiency of heat injection during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 Masanobu Kunitomo , Tristan Guillot , Shigeru Ida , Taku Takeuchi