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New insights into the lives of massive stars – Tech Explorist
OzGrav scientists have developed a stellar evolution code called METhod of Interpolation for Single Star Evolution (METISSE) that calculate the properties of massive stars at any instant by using selected stellar models computed with detailed stellar evolutio…
Massive stars contribute the most to the evolution of star clusters and galaxies. They are the precursors of many vivid and energetic phenomena in the universe.
Studying such massive stars requires detailed stellar evolution codes: computer programs that calculate both the interior structure and these stars’ evolution. Sadly, detailed codes are computationally costly and tediousit can take a few hours to compute the evolution of only a single star. Therefore, it’s unreasonable to use these code…
