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Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA)

  • Authors: Bill Paxton, Lars Bildsten, Aaron Dotter, Falk Herwig, Pierre Lesaffre, and Frank Timmes

Paxton et al. 2011 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 192 3.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 16.

Trajectories of central conditions for fully convective M < 0.3  M stars as they approach the main sequence ( M>0.08  M ) or become brown dwarfs for Y = 0.275 and Z = 0.019. Each solid line shows T c and ρ c for a fixed mass, M, noted at the end of the line (when the age is 3 Gyr). The dashed blue lines are isochrones for ages of 10, 30,100, 300 Myr and 1 Gyr. The purple squares and red circles show where D and 7Li is depleted by a factor of 100. The green triangles show the ZAMS.

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