Bibcode
Pols, O. R.; Schroder, Klaus-Peter; Hurley, Jarrod R.; Tout, Christopher A.; Eggleton, Peter P.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 298, Issue 2, pp. 525-536.
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1998
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525
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Description
We have calculated a grid of empirically well tested evolutionary tracks
with masses M between 0.5 and 50Msolar, spaced by approximately 0.1 in
log M, and with metallicities Z=0.0001, 0.0003, 0.001, 0.004, 0.01, 0.02
and 0.03. We use a robust and fast evolution code with a self-adaptive
non-Lagrangian mesh, which employs the mixing-length theory but treats
convective mixing as a diffusion process, solving simultaneously for the
structure and the chemical composition. The hydrogen and helium
abundances are chosen as functions of the metallicity:
X=0.76-3.0ZY=0.24+2.0Z. Two sets of models were computed, one without
and one with a certain amount of enhanced mixing or `overshooting'. This
amount has been empirically chosen by means of various sensitive tests
for overshooting: (1) the luminosity of core helium burning (blue loop)
giants of well-known mass, (2) the width of the main sequence as defined
by double-lined eclipsing binaries with well-measured masses and radii,
and (3) the shape and implied stellar distribution of isochrones of
various open clusters. The first two tests have been the subject of
previous papers, the third test is discussed in this paper. On the basis
of these tests, we recommend the use of the overshooting models for
masses above about 1.5Msolar. We describe here the characteristics of
the models, the procedure for constructing isochrones for arbitrary age
and metallicity from the models, and the performance of these isochrones
for several intermediate-age and old open clusters. All original models
are available in electronic form and we describe the means by which they
may be obtained.