MESA ISOCHRONES AND STELLAR TRACKS (MIST). I. SOLAR-SCALED MODELS
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This is the first of a series of papers presenting the Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) Isochrones and Stellar Tracks (MIST) project, a new comprehensive set of stellar evolutionary tracks and isochrones computed using MESA, a state-of-the-art open-source 1D stellar evolution package. In this work, we present models with solar-scaled abundance ratios covering a wide range of ages ( ), masses ( ), and metallicities ( ). The models are self-consistently and continuously evolved from the pre-main sequence (PMS) to the end of hydrogen burning, the white dwarf cooling sequence, or the end of carbon burning, depending on the initial mass. We also provide a grid of models evolved from the PMS to the end of core helium burning for . We showcase extensive comparisons with observational constraints as well as with some of the most widely used existing models in the literature. The evolutionary tracks and isochrones can be downloaded from the project website at http://waps.cfa.harvard.edu/MIST/ .
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They repeated the entire SFH fitting for a representative subset of roughly one third of their regions using MIST isochrones in place of Padova tracks.
“To assess the impact of these model choices in PHAST, we repeated the entire SFH fitting for a representative subset consisting of roughly a third of our regions using the MIST (Choi et al. 2016) isochrones in place of the Padova (Marigo et al. 2008; Girardi et al. 2010) tracks.”
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- Authors
- Choi, J., Dotter, A., Conroy, C., Cantiello, M., Paxton, B., & Johnson, B. D.
- Affiliations
- Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian (US)
- Australian National University (AU)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
- Venue
- The Astrophysical Journal
- Publisher
- American Astronomical Society
- Published
- 2016-05-26
- Volume
- 823
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 102
- ISSN
- 0004-637X (ISSN-L)
- 1538-4357
- OpenAlex
- W2344233738
- Cited by
- 2,922
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- 9
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- FWCI
- 76.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- The Astrophysical Journal (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (1313280, 25915)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (PHY11-25915, NNX15AK14G, NNX13AI46G)
- Harvard University
- Australian Research Council (FL110100012)
- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara (PHY-11-25915)
- FAS Division of Science, Harvard University
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Instrumentation › Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Keywords
- stellar evolution, isochrones, evolutionary tracks, solar metallicity, abundance ratios, pre-main sequence, white dwarf cooling, carbon burning, core helium burning, hydrogen burning
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