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

[Jieun Choi]

Hi Rich and Steffen,

My collaborators and I (Aaron Dotter, Charlie Conroy, Matteo Cantiello, and Bill) are working on a project called MIST (MESA Isochrones and Stellar Tracks). Our goal is to publish a large and comprehensive grid of MESA evolutionary tracks and isochrones, covering M=0.1 to 150 Msun from the pre main sequence to the end of H burning (M<0.6Msun), white dwarf cooling phase (0.6Msun<=M<10Msun) and the end of C burning (M>=10Msun). We are making good progress on this and are hoping to make the first set of models available this summer. The first release will consist of models with solar scaled abundances from very metal poor to metal rich ([Fe/H] around -7 to 0.5), and we will subsequently work on alpha enhanced models.

Please contact us if you have further questions!

Cheers,
Jieun



> On Feb 27, 2015, at 11:38, Richard Townsend <townsend at astro.wisc.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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