Approximate input physics for stellar modelling
Abstract
We present a simple and efficient, yet reasonably accurate, equation of state, which at the moderately low temperatures and high densities found in the interiors of stars less massive than the Sun is substantially more accurate than its predecessor by Eggleton, Faulkner & Flannery. Along with the most recently available values in tabular form of opacities, neutrino loss rates, and nuclear reaction rates for a selection of the most important reactions, this provides a convenient package of input physics for stellar modelling. We briefly discuss a few results obtained with the updated stellar evolution code.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- June 1995
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/274.3.964
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/9504025
- Bibcode:
- 1995MNRAS.274..964P
- Keywords:
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- EQUATION OF STATE;
- STARS: EVOLUTION;
- STARS: LOW-MASS;
- BROWN DWARFS;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- uuencoded compressed postscript. The preprint are also available at http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/preprint/PrePrint.html