Modules for experiments in stellar astrophysics (MESA)

B Paxton, L Bildsten, A Dotter, F Herwig… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
MESA and demonstrates its current capabilities. We assume that the reader is familiar with
the basic stellar physics … at meaningful solutions when using MESA. For background material …

Modules for experiments in stellar astrophysics (MESA): binaries, pulsations, and explosions

B Paxton, P Marchant, J Schwab… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
MESA that now allow for the simulation of radiative levitation of heavy elements in hot stars.
We close by noting that the MESA … enabling capability for accelerating MESA's development. …

Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): convective boundaries, element diffusion, and massive star explosions

B Paxton, J Schwab, EB Bauer, L Bildsten… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) and … boundaries is consistent with
the physics of convection, and … now available to study with MESA due to improved treatments …

Modules for experiments in stellar astrophysics (MESA): planets, oscillations, rotation, and massive stars

B Paxton, M Cantiello, P Arras, L Bildsten… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
… In the following subsections, we discuss a new MESA module that creates initial models in
the planetary mass range M ≃ 0.1–10 M J , and present a suite of evolutionary calculations. …

Modules for experiments in stellar astrophysics (MESA): time-dependent convection, energy conservation, automatic differentiation, and infrastructure

AS Jermyn, EB Bauer, J Schwab… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
… We strengthen MESA's implementation of the equation of state… in MESA, we describe key
updates to the treatment of stellar … We close by discussing major updates to MESA's software …

Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): pulsating variable stars, rotation, convective boundaries, and energy conservation

B Paxton, R Smolec, J Schwab… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
… in MESA, we introduce a new approach to modifying the pressure and temperature equations
of stellar … We quantify the parallel performance of MESA on current-generation multicore …

Testing Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA)

WM Wolf, J Schwab, R Farmer… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
… the testing infrastructure developed for and used by the Modules for Experiments in Stellar
Astrophysics (MESA… This system allows the computationally demanding MESA test suite to be …

Carbon–Oxygen Phase Separation in Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) White Dwarf Models

EB Bauer - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
physics. When considering phase separation alongside 22 Ne sedimentation, however, we
find that both MESA … the open-source stellar evolution software MESA provides an important …

MESA: modules for experiments in stellar astrophysics

B Paxton, L Bildsten, A Dotter… - Astrophysics …, 2010 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
… in computational stellar astrophysics. A newly designed 1-D stellar evolution module, MESA
… of the numerical and physics modules for simulations of a wide range of stellar evolution …

[PDF][PDF] Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (): Convective Boundaries, Element Diffusion, and Massive Star Explosions

B Paxton, J Schwab, EB Bauer, L Bildsten… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - par.nsf.gov
Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) and … boundaries is consistent with
the physics of convection, and … now available to study with MESA due to improved treatments …