Stellar dynamics and feedback connections to stellar evolution

MODEST-1: Integrating Stellar Evolution and Stellar Dynamics

Piet Hut ∗ a , Michael M. Shara b , Sverre J. Aarseth c , Ralf S. Klessen d , James C. Lombardi Jr. e , Junichiro Makino f , Steve McMillan g , Onno R. Pols h , Peter J. Teuben i , Ronald F. Webbink j Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA Department of Astrophysics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA Institute of Astronomy, University of...

stellaR: A Package to Manage Stellar Evolution Tracks and Isochrones

We present the R package stellaR, which is designed to access and manipulate publicly available stellar evolutionary tracks and isochrones from the Pisa low-mass database. The procedures for extracting important stages in the evolution of a star from the database, for constructing isochrones from stellar tracks and for interpolating among tracks are discussed and demonstrated. Due to the advanc...

Stellar Dynamics of Dense Stellar Systems

Stellar dynamics is almost unreasonably well suited for an implementation in terms of special-purpose hardware. Unlike the case of molecular dynamics, stellar dynamics deals exclusively with a long-range force, gravity, which leads to a computational cost scaling as the square of the number of stars involved. While special tricks can lead to a reduction of this cost from ∼ N2 to ∼ N logN in the...

Stellar Structure and Evolution

The Role of Stellar Feedback in Galaxy Evolution

THE ROLE OF STELLAR FEEDBACK IN GALAXY EVOLUTION