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abbreviation of stellar types in nbody6 code
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stellar_type_abbr_number.txt
0 = deeply or fully convective MS star (low mass MS, LMS), M ≤ 0.7 solar mass
1 = main-sequence (MS) star M ≥ 0.7 solar mass
2 = Hertzsprung gap (HG)
3 = first giant branch (GB)
4 = core helium burning (CHeB)
5 = early asymptotic giant branch (EAGB)
6 = thermally pulsing asymptotic giant branch (TPAGB)
7 = naked helium star MS (HeMS)
8 = naked helium star Hertzsprung gap (HeHG)
9 = naked helium star giant branch (HeGB)
10 = helium white dwarf (HeWD)
11 = carbon-oxygen white dwarf (COWD)
12 = oxygen-neon white dwarf (ONeWD)
13 = neutron star (NS)
14 = black hole (BH)
15 = massless remnant
Excerpt from Section 4 of
Hurley, J. R., Pols, O. R., and Tout, C. A., “Comprehensive analytic formulae for stellar evolution as a function of mass and metallicity”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 315, no. 3, pp. 543–569, 2000. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03426.x.
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000MNRAS.315..543H/abstract
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