Publications

Stellar Evolution

2002 Papers

• The Evolution and Explosion of Massive Stars
  Woosley, S. E.,Heger, A., & Weaver, T. A.
  2002, Submitted to the Reviews of Modern Physics
  PS (7.9M)



• Nucleosynthesis in Massive Stars With Improved Nuclear and Stellar Physics
  Rauscher, T., Heger, A., Hoffman, R. D., & Woosley, S. E.
  2002, 15 pages, 17 color figures (3 as separate GIF images), submitted to the ApJ., 112478
  ADS, astro-ph/0112478, PS



• Magnetic Field Evolution in Accreting White Dwarfs
  Cumming, A.
  2002, To appear in MNRAS (15 pages, 10 figures); minor revisions., 2079
  ADS




2001 Papers

• Three-Dimensional Simulations of Mantle Convection in Io
  Tackley, P. J., Schubert, G., Glatzmaier, G. A., Schenk, P., Ratcliff, J. T., & Matas, J.-P.
  2001, Icarus, 149, 79
  ADS



• On the Stability of Very Massive Primordial Stars
  Baraffe, I., Heger, A., & Woosley, S. E.
  2001, Astrophysical Journal, 550, 890
  ADS, astro-ph/0009410, PS



• Presupernova Evolution with Improved Rates for Weak Interactions
  Heger, A., Woosley, S. E., Martínez-Pinedo, G., & Langanke, K.
  2001, Astrophysical Journal, 560, 307
  ADS, astro-ph/0011507, PS



• The Limiting Stellar Initial Mass for Black Hole Formation in Close Binary Systems
  Fryer, C. L., Heger, A., Langer, N., & Wellstein, S.
  2001, 23 pages total (including 11 figures), submitted to ApJ. Preprint no. LAUR: 01-4881., 112539
  ADS, astro-ph/0112539, PS




• Effects of Changing the Density Stratification in Magneto-Convection
  Evonuk, M. & Glatzmaier, G. A.
  2001, AAS/Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting, 33, 1102
  ADS



• A numerical dynamo benchmark
  Christensen, U. R., Aubert, J., Cardin, P., Dormy, E., Gibbons, S., Glatzmaier, G. A., Grote, E., Honkura, Y., Jones, C., Kono, M., Matsushima, M., Sakuraba, A., Takahashi, F., Tilgner, A., Wicht, J., & Zhang, K.
  2001, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 128, 25
  ADS



• Examining the Validity of Simplifications Used in Modeling the Interior of Jupiter
  Evonuk, M. & Glatzmaier, G. A.
  2001, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2001, abstract #P12C-0509, C0509
  ADS



• Theory of Extrasolar Giant Planet Transits
  Hubbard, W. B., Fortney, J. J., Lunine, J. I., Burrows, A., Sudarsky, D., & Pinto, P.
  2001, Astrophysical Journal, 560, 413
  ADS



• Massive Star Evolution: Nucleosynthesis and Nuclear Reaction Rate Uncertainties
  Heger, A., Woosley, S. E., Rauscher, T., Hoffman, R. D., & Boyes, M. M.
  2001, 6 pages, including 4 PostScript figures, to appear in Proc. "Astronomy with Radioactivities III", New Astronomy Reviews, 110015
  ADS, astro-ph/0110015, PS



• On the Progenitors of Collapsars
  Woosley, S. E. & Heger, A.
  2001, American Astronomical Society Meeting, 198, 3801
  ADS, PS




2000 Papers

• Evolution and Explosion of Very Massive Primordial Stars
  Heger, A., Woosley, S. E., Baraffe, I., & Abel, T.
  2001, 7 pages, including 4 figures; in. proc. MPA/ESO/MPE/USM Joint Astronomy Conference "Lighthouses of the Universe: The Most Luminous Celestial Objects and their use for Cosmology", 112059
  ADS, astro-ph/0010206 PS



• Mixing and Thermonuclear Processes in Stars
  Langer, N., Heger, A., Herwig, F., & Wellstein, S.
  2001, AIP Conf Proc. 561: Symposium on Nuclear Physics IV, 3
  ADS, PS



• Formation of high mass X-ray black hole binaries
  Brown, G. E., Heger, A., Langer, N., Lee, C.-H., Wellstein, S., & Bethe, H. A.
  2001, New Astronomy, 6, 457
  ADS, astro-ph/0102379, PS



• The Structure of Carbon Detonation in Type Ia Supernovae
  Fryxell, B., Timmes, F. X., Zingale, M., Dursi, L. J., Ricker, P., Olson, K., Calder, A. C., Tufo, H., Truran, J. W., Rosner, R., & MacNeice, P.
  2000, American Astronomical Society Meeting, 197, 8103
  ADS



• Mixing in Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities
  Calder, A. C., Fryxell, B., Rosner, R., Dursi, L. J., Olson, K., Ricker, P. M., Timmes, F. X., Zingale, M., Tufo, H. M., & MacNeice, P.
  2000, American Astronomical Society Meeting, 197, 8102
  ADS



• The Structure of Self-Gravitating Hydrodynamic Turbulence
  Ricker, P. M., Dursi, L. J., Rosner, R., Calder, A. C., Fryxell, B., Olson, K., Timmes, F. X., Truran, J., Tufo, H., Zingale, M., & MacNeice, P.
  2000, American Astronomical Society Meeting, 197, 4213
  ADS



• Stellar models including pre-SN/SN phases
  Heger, A., Woosley, S. E., & Langer, N.
  2000, New Astronomy Review, 44, 297
  ADS, PS



• Gravitational Braking of Inner-Core Rotation in Geodynamo Simulations
  Buffett, B. A. & Glatzmaier, G. A.
  2000, Geophysical Research Letters, 27, 3125
  ADS



• Evolution and Nucleosynthesis in Massive Stars of Zero Metallicity
  Heger, A., Woosley, S. E., & Waters, R.
  2000, The First Stars. Proceedings of the MPA/ESO Workshop held at Garching, Germany, 4-6 August 1999. Achim Weiss, Tom G. Abel, Vanessa Hill (eds.). Springer, p.121, 121
  ADS, PS



• An Inexpensive Nuclear Energy Generation Network for Stellar Hydrodynamics
  Timmes, F. X., Hoffman, R. D., & Woosley, S. E.
  2000, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 129, 377
  ADS



• Presupernova Evolution of Rotating Massive Stars. II. Evolution of the Surface Properties
  Heger, A. & Langer, N.
  2000, Astrophysical Journal, 544, 1016
  ADS, astro-ph/0005110, PS



• Core-Collapse Simulations of Rotating Stars
  Fryer, C. L. & Heger, A.
  2000, Astrophysical Journal, 541, 1033
  ADS, astro-ph/9907433 PS



• Three-dimensional Spherical Simulations of Solar Convection. I. Differential Rotation and Pattern Evolution Achieved with Laminar and Turbulent States
  Miesch, M. S., Elliott, J. R., Toomre, J., Clune, T. L., Glatzmaier, G. A., & Gilman, P. A.
  2000, Astrophysical Journal, 532, 593
  ADS



• Presupernova Evolution of Rotating Massive Stars. I. Numerical Method and Evolution of the Internal Stellar Structure
  Heger, A., Langer, N., & Woosley, S. E.
  2000, Astrophysical Journal, 528, 368
  ADS, PS