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Richard H. D. Townsend
Researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Publications - 183
Citations - 18822
Richard H. D. Townsend is an academic researcher from University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author has contributed to research in topics: Stars & Magnetosphere. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 176 publications receiving 15082 citations. Previous affiliations of Richard H. D. Townsend include Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics & University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Planets, Oscillations, Rotation, and Massive Stars
Bill Paxton,Matteo Cantiello,Phil Arras,Lars Bildsten,Edward F. Brown,Aaron Dotter,Christopher R. Mankovich,Michael H. Montgomery,Dennis Stello,Francis Timmes,Richard H. D. Townsend +10 more
TL;DR: Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) as discussed by the authors is an open source software package for modeling the evolution of stellar structures and composition. But it is not suitable for large-scale systems such as supernovae.
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Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Giant Planets, Oscillations, Rotation, and Massive Stars
Bill Paxton,Matteo Cantiello,Phil Arras,Lars Bildsten,Edward F. Brown,Aaron Dotter,Christopher R. Mankovich,Michael H. Montgomery,Dennis Stello,Frank Timmes,Richard H. D. Townsend +10 more
TL;DR: The Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) project as discussed by the authors provides a one-dimensional stellar evolution module, MESA Star, which can model the evolution of giant planets down to masses as low as one-tenth that of Jupiter.
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Modules for experiments in stellar astrophysics (mesa): binaries, pulsations, and explosions
Bill Paxton,Pablo Marchant,Josiah Schwab,Evan B. Bauer,Lars Bildsten,Lars Bildsten,Matteo Cantiello,Luc Dessart,Robert Farmer,Haili Hu,Norbert Langer,Richard H. D. Townsend,Dean M. Townsley,Francis Timmes +13 more
TL;DR: Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) as discussed by the authors can now simultaneously evolve an interacting pair of differentially rotating stars undergoing transfer and loss of mass and angular momentum, greatly enhancing the prior ability to model binary evolution.
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Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Binaries, Pulsations, and Explosions
Bill Paxton,Pablo Marchant,Josiah Schwab,Evan B. Bauer,Lars Bildsten,Lars Bildsten,Matteo Cantiello,Luc Dessart,Robert Farmer,Haili Hu,Norbert Langer,Richard H. D. Townsend,Dean M. Townsley,Francis Timmes +13 more
TL;DR: Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) as discussed by the authors can now simultaneously evolve an interacting pair of differentially rotating stars undergoing transfer and loss of mass and angular momentum, greatly enhancing the prior ability to model binary evolution.
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Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) : Convective Boundaries, Element Diffusion, and Massive Star Explosions
Bill Paxton,Josiah Schwab,Evan B. Bauer,Lars Bildsten,Lars Bildsten,Sergei Blinnikov,Sergei Blinnikov,Sergei Blinnikov,Paul C. Duffell,Robert Farmer,Robert Farmer,Jared A. Goldberg,Pablo Marchant,Elena Sorokina,Elena Sorokina,Anne Thoul,Richard H. D. Townsend,Francis Timmes +17 more
TL;DR: The Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) software instrument as discussed by the authors has been updated with the capability to handle floating point exceptions and stellar model optimization, as well as four new software tools.