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Comprehensive analytic formulae for stellar evolution as a function of mass and metallicity Author : Jarrod R. Hurley , Onno R. Pols and Christopher A. Tout Reporter : Chen Wang 5/27/2014
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Citation (544) It is a direction of a rapid evolution code for single stars Everyone who use the code should cite this paper
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Star / Twin Written by Eggleton P.P 1.Eggleton, P. P. (1971) MNRAS,151 , 351 (550) 2.Eggleton, P. P. (1972) MNRAS,156 , 361 (343) 3.Eggleton, P. P., Faulkner, J. & Flannery, B. P. (1973) A&A, 23, 325 (340) 4.Eggleton, P. P. (1973) MNRAS, 163, 279 (161) 5.Han, Zh., Podsiadlowski, Ph. & Eggleton, P. P. (1994) MNRAS, 270, 121 (196) 6.Pols, O. R., Tout, C. A., Eggleton, P. P. & Han, Zh. (1995) MNRAS, 274, 964 (360)
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The author – Cambridge STARS Peter Eggleton 1. Jarrod R. Hurley: Centre for Astrophysics &Supercomputing Swinburne University of Technology (1996-1999 PhD in Cambridge ) 2. Onno R. Pols: University of Utrecht 3. Christopher A. Tout: Cambridge The boss
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Outline Introduction Stellar evolution overview Stellar models Procedure Fitting formulae Final stages and remnants Mass-loss and rotation Discussion
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What do I concern about Why we use this kind of code The stellar evolution path and how do they combine the evolution with the comprehensive formulae The key point in the code The accuracy
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Introduction The results of detailed stellar evolution calculations are required for applications in many areas of astrophysics. ☆ Model the chemical evolution of galaxies ☆ Determine the ages of star clusters ☆ Simulating the outcomes of stellar collisions …… Update the results of the calculations
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Introduction Tested against observations: reproduce the findings of large-scale star surveys, such as the Hipparcos Catalogue, using population synthesis. In order to make population synthesis statistically meaningful, it is necessary to evolve a large sample of stars so as to overcome Poisson noise.
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Introduction However, detailed evolution codes can take several hours to evolve a model of just one star. We need to generate a large set of detailed models and present them in some convenient form in which it is relatively simple to utilize the results at a later stage.
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Introduction Construct tables (rather large) :interpolate Approximate the data by a number of formulae as a function of age, mass and metallicity The first approach has been used for many years
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Introduction Construct a set of single-star evolution (SSE) formulae. It is difficult to find analytic approximations than to interpolate in tables. But the resulting code is very much more compact and adaptable to the requirement of, for example, an N-body code or variable mass-loss.
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Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (HRD)
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Stellar evolution overview The length of a star’s life, its path on the HRD, and its ultimate fate depend critically on its mass M ≤ 1.1 radiative cores M > 1.1 convective cores
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Stellar evolution overview MS hook : for stars with convective cores, mixing in the core will deplete the fuel over a large region, which leads to a rapid contraction over the inner region at core-hydrogen exhaustion A bifurcation point
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Stellar evolution overview Low-mass stars
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Stellar Models The fitting formulae are based on the stellar models computed by Pols et al. (1998) M : 0.5 ~ 50 Z : 0.0001 , 0.0003 , 0.001 , 0.004 , 0.01 , 0.02 , 0.03 Mass-loss from stellar winds was neglected in the detailed stellar models
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Procedure Assign each evolution phase an integer type, k, where: 0=MS star M<=0.7 deeply or fully convective 1=MS star M>=0.7 2=HG 13=NS 14=BH 15= massless remnant
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Procedure Take different features of the evolution in turn, e.g., MS lifetime, ZAHB luminosity, and first try to fit them as for a particular Z Extend the function to using as a starting point Fit formulae to the end-point of the various evolutionary phases, as well as to the time-scales. Fit the behaviour within each phase as
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Procedure Fit the L zams and R zams as a function of M and Z (Tout et al. 1996) L zams accurate to 3 per cent R zams accurate to 1.2 per cent
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Fitting formulae The formulae describe the evolution as a function of mass M and age t Z-dependence is implicit whenever a coefficient of the form an and bn appears in any of the formulae There bifurcation points LM: IM: HM
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Fitting formulae – MS & HG The base of the giant branch (BGB) Approximate L and R at the end of the MS & HG, and at the base of the GB
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Fitting formulae – MS & HG MS evolution Mimic the hook
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Fitting formulae – MS & HG HG evolution The core mass at the end of the HG Grow linearly
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Fitting formulae – GB Power-law Core He burning Depend strongly on the mass and metallicity
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Fitting formulae – CHeB & AGB Core helium burning: complicated and depends strongly on the mass and metallicity AGB: determine the CO core mass Radius evolution from the ZAMS to the end of the AGB Excellent performance !
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Final stages and remnants Envelope is lost before Mc reaches, the remnant core becomes a WD Supernova explosion The supernova leaves either a NS or a BH
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Stellar remnants
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Mass-loss and rotation Mass-loss prescription is independent of the previous formulae and fits observations well. Use different prescription in different situations Should be consistent with Eggleton’s code (Nieuwenhuijzen & de Jager, 1990)
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Mass-loss and rotation We should follow the evolution of the star’s angular momentum Start each star with some realistic spin on the ZAMS.
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Evolution path
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SSE package EVOLVE The main routine ZCNSTS Sets all the constants STAR HRDIAG Decide the evolution stages ZFUNCS Detailed evolution formulae MLWIND Derives the mass-loss rate
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Why we choose the SSE package Fast (It is very useful if we want to know the information derived from the evolution of a large number of stars ) Accuracy (within 5 per cent) All phases from the zero-age main sequence up to the remnant stages
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What about Eggleton’s code ◇ It contains a wealth of information detailing the interior structure of each star, information that the formulae simply cannot provide. It is still very useful !
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Perception We can observe just a tiny fraction of a population of sources, or cannot resolve single sources at all. The population synthesis can help to derive or check parameters of the whole set of studied objects, or to predict properties of an unobserved fraction of the sources SSE/BSE is a useful tool in evolutionary population synthesis
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Perception When the whole population can be studied observationally, and also an evolution of its membership can be directly derived from actual data, population modeling becomes unnecessary ! SSE will be an important tool for a long time
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