Bonn Optimized Stellar Tracks (BoOST)

Simulated Populations of Massive and Very Massive Stars for

Astrophysical Applications.

You can download all BoOST data from this page. Version: 1.3

List of updates from the previous version are listed below.

Stellar model grids

Milky Way

LMC

SMC

dwarfA

dwarfB

IZw18

dwarfD

dwarfE

IZw18-CHE

Interpolated stellar tracks

Milky Way

LMC

SMC

dwarfA

dwarfB

IZw18[+ionizing fluxes]

dwarfD

dwarfE

IZw18-CHE

Synthetic populations

Milky Way

LMC

SMC

dwarfA

dwarfB

IZw18

dwarfD

dwarfE

IZw18-CHE

The 'synStars' code

Source code (current version written in Python) with simple documentation under THIS LINK.

Figures, plots

Milky Way

LMC

SMC

dwarfA

dwarfB

IZw18

dwarfD

dwarfE

IZw18-CHE

Download all BoOST files in one zip archive:

BoOST-v1.3.zip (size 1.4 GB)

Older version: BoOST-v1.2.zip (size 1.3 GB)

List of updates from previous version (1.2 to 1.3):

– DEM phase now includes proper mass-loss prescription (cf. Sect. 4.3 of the final/accepted version of the BoOST paper Szécsi et al.)

– The final version of the BoOST paper (Szécsi et al.) contains a discussion on the necessity of the DEM method. See also Agrawal el al. for further explanations.

– All the old Brott+2011 and Köhler+2015 models that we include into the project have all been recomputed by us, for consistency with newer models.

– A complete set of analytic figures is published, showing all the columns plotted as a function of time.

References

Please cite the following paper if you apply the BoOST models (grids, tracks or populations):

'Bonn' Optimized Stellar Tracks (BoOST). Simulated Populations of Massive and Very Massive Stars for Astrophysical Applications. Authors: D. Szécsi, P. Agrawal, R. Wünsch, N. Langer. Accepted by A&A. [arXiv:2004.08203]

Contact

Questions, feedback and requests can be directed to Dorottya Szécsi (dorottya.szecsi at gmail.com, dorottya at umk.pl) and Richard Wünsch (richard at wunsch.cz).