Origin of the elements

A Arcones, FK Thielemann - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2023 - Springer
What is the origin of the oxygen we breathe, the hydrogen and oxygen (in form of water
H2O) in rivers and oceans, the carbon in all organic compounds, the silicon in electronic …

Magnetism, dynamo action and the solar-stellar connection

AS Brun, MK Browning - Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2017 - Springer
The Sun and other stars are magnetic: magnetism pervades their interiors and affects their
evolution in a variety of ways. In the Sun, both the fields themselves and their influence on …

Mesa isochrones and stellar tracks (MIST). I. Solar-scaled models

J Choi, A Dotter, C Conroy, M Cantiello… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Recommended conventions for reporting results from direct dark matter searches

D Baxter, IM Bloch, E Bodnia, X Chen, J Conrad… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
The field of dark matter detection is a highly visible and highly competitive one. In this paper,
we propose recommendations for presenting dark matter direct detection results particularly …

Accurate empirical radii and masses of planets and their host stars with Gaia parallaxes

KG Stassun, KA Collins, BS Gaudi - The Astronomical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present empirical measurements of the radii of 116 stars that host transiting planets.
These radii are determined using only direct observables—the bolometric flux at Earth, the …

A new generation of standard solar models

N Vinyoles, AM Serenelli, FL Villante… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We compute a new generation of standard solar models (SSMs) that includes recent
updates on some important nuclear reaction rates and a more consistent treatment of the …

How to constrain your M dwarf: measuring effective temperature, bolometric luminosity, mass, and radius

AW Mann, GA Feiden, E Gaidos… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Precise and accurate parameters for late-type (late K and M) dwarf stars are important for
characterization of any orbiting planets, but such determinations have been hampered by …

The chemical composition of the Sun

M Asplund, N Grevesse, AJ Sauval… - Annual review of …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
The solar chemical composition is an important ingredient in our understanding of the
formation, structure, and evolution of both the Sun and our Solar System. Furthermore, it is …

The SNO+ experiment

V Albanese, R Alves, MR Anderson… - Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) experiment [1] took data from 1999 to 2006,
before returning its target heavy water (2H2O or D2O) to the supplier. Using much of the …

Modules for experiments in stellar astrophysics (MESA)

B Paxton, L Bildsten, A Dotter, F Herwig… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Stellar physics and evolution calculations enable a broad range of research in astrophysics.
Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) is a suite of open source, robust …