Bibcode
Pietrinferni, A.; Cassisi, Santi; Salaris, Maurizio; Hidalgo, S. L.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 558, id.A46, 10 pp.
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2013
Journal
Citations
67
Refereed citations
64
Description
We present an extension of the BaSTI (Bag of Stellar Tracks and
Isochrones) stellar evolution database to extremely metal-poor (Z =
10-5) and super-metal-rich (Z = 0.05) metallicities, with
both scaled-solar and α-enhanced ([α/Fe] = 0.4) heavy
element distributions. These new tracks (from the pre-main sequence to
the early-asymptotic giant branch phase), horizontal branch models, and
isochrones will enable the use of the BaSTI database to study the most
metal-poor populations found in Local Group faint dwarf galaxies, and
the metal-rich component of the Galactic bulge, for example. An overview
of several fundamental predictions of stellar evolution over the full
metallicity range of BaSTI is presented, together with comparisons with
literature calculations at Z = 10-5 and Z = 0.05.
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