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Blink comparison between the 2009 and 2026 epoc...

Blink comparison between the 2009 and 2026 epochs (animated), with the inner jet (Jet Kn...

Adam Block, Research Notes of the AAS 10 7

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Rotating models compared against a select sampl...

Rotating models compared against a select sample of open cluster rotation sequences from...

Marc H. Pinsonneault et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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A color–magnitude diagram example of the isochr...

A color–magnitude diagram example of the isochrone set generated from the YREC sample gr...

Marc H. Pinsonneault et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Starspot lithium isochrones evaluated at 100 My...

Starspot lithium isochrones evaluated at 100 Myr for various metallicities and starspot ...

Marc H. Pinsonneault et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Radial rotation profiles for a 3 M⊙ star halfwa...

Radial rotation profiles for a 3 M⊙ star halfway through helium burning. Convective regi...

Marc H. Pinsonneault et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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A comparison between full YREC rotation models ...

A comparison between full YREC rotation models and rotevol forward models for tracks wit...

Marc H. Pinsonneault et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Starspot isochrones at solar composition evalua...

Starspot isochrones at solar composition evaluated at 100 Myr, 300 Myr, and the ZAMS (de...

Marc H. Pinsonneault et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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The impact of the choice of surface boundary co...

The impact of the choice of surface boundary conditions and equations of state on lower-...

Marc H. Pinsonneault et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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The evolution and final helium profiles of 9M⊙ ...

The evolution and final helium profiles of 9M⊙ models run with different assumptions abo...

Marc H. Pinsonneault et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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The yreclab web interface, showing a run in pro...

The yreclab web interface, showing a run in progress, with toggles to “step” (evaluate o...

Marc H. Pinsonneault et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Comparison of the low-mass core helium-burning ...

Comparison of the low-mass core helium-burning phase from YREC (solid) and PARSEC v2.0 (...

Marc H. Pinsonneault et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Comparison of the core helium-burning phase for...

Comparison of the core helium-burning phase for a solar model from YREC (dark blue) with...

Marc H. Pinsonneault et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Comparison of the core helium-burning phases fr...

Comparison of the core helium-burning phases from YREC and PARSEC v2.0 against APOKASC-3...

Marc H. Pinsonneault et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Fractional differences in sound speed between o...

Fractional differences in sound speed between our test suite solar models and solar data...

Marc H. Pinsonneault et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Top: difference between APOKASC-3 and YREC effe...

Top: difference between APOKASC-3 and YREC effective temperatures for the RGB sample in ...

Marc H. Pinsonneault et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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H-R diagram showing evolutionary tracks for mas...

H-R diagram showing evolutionary tracks for masses of 0.3, 1.0, 3.0, and 8.0 M⊙ from the...

Marc H. Pinsonneault et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Luminosity as a function of temperature for the...

Luminosity as a function of temperature for the solar metallicity models. The solid blac...

Marc H. Pinsonneault et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Kippenhahn diagram showing the evolution of con...

Kippenhahn diagram showing the evolution of convective boundaries for the 1M⊙ (top panel...

Marc H. Pinsonneault et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Radius as a function of mass for tracks 0.3–9.0...

Radius as a function of mass for tracks 0.3–9.0 M⊙ at ZAMS and TAMS. G. Torres et al. (2...

Marc H. Pinsonneault et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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The loci in the ρ–T plane of the 0.1 (lower rig...

The loci in the ρ–T plane of the 0.1 (lower right), 0.3, 1, 3, and 9 M⊙ models (upper le...

Marc H. Pinsonneault et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Central temperature as a function of central de...

Central temperature as a function of central density at ZAMS (black) and TAMS (red) loca...

Marc H. Pinsonneault et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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A schematic illustration of the steps in the YR...

A schematic illustration of the steps in the YREC code.

Marc H. Pinsonneault et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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Spatial and temporal resolution tests for solar...

Spatial and temporal resolution tests for solar metallicity models at 0.3, 1.0, 3.0, and...

Marc H. Pinsonneault et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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CR proton spectrum multiplied by E2.75, with fi...

CR proton spectrum multiplied by E2.75, with fit curves compared to measurements from AM...

Felix Aharonian and Bing Theodore Zhang, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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CR proton (a) and helium (b) energy spectra, mu...

CR proton (a) and helium (b) energy spectra, multiplied by E2.75, as a function of prima...

Felix Aharonian and Bing Theodore Zhang, The Astrophysical Journal 1006 2

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