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 Series1923.
Provider: AAS Journals
Caption: Figure 29.
Top: H-R diagram for 10–100
M☉ models from the PMS to the end of core Helium burning for
Z = 0.02 but with zero mass loss. Bottom: trajectories of the central conditions in the
T–ρ plane over this same evolutionary period.