[mesa-users] Do you know if anyone has made a grid of stellar models using MESA?

[Richard Townsend]

Hi Steffen —

I don’t know off the top of my head, but I’m forwarding this to the MESA users' group to see what they say.

cheers,

Rich

> On Feb 27, 2015, at 1:31 PM, Stef Christensen <Wikisteff at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello, Rich!
> 
> I've been following your work for a while, using EZ-Web to download evolutionary tracks (as well as other sources around the web).
> 
> I'd love to have a uniform grid of tracks that extend from ZAMS or PMS stars to collapsed stars for a simulation/population synthesis project that I'm writing. The PARSEC tracks seem pretty good (a little warm for low-mass stars), but they end before the RGB. I could stitch together tracks from different published sources, but that seems inefficient and probably plagued with interpolation nightmares. MESA seems to do the nicest job of using a uniform code base that goes from the brown dwarf regime through to high-mass stars that I've seen.
> 
> I was wondering if you knew of anyone who has run and published a recent grid of stellar evolution tracks using MESA? It seems to be state-of-the-art, and all the tracks that I've seen on the Net are 2006-grade.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help that you can offer! :)
> 
> Cheers!
>      Steffen