Data for Massive Stars Behaving Badly: Exceptional Interactions And Their Remnants

Software and data used in the dissertation "Massive Stars Behaving Badly: Exceptional Interactions And Their Remnants", by Kaila Nathaniel

To use this data, please use the following citation:

@thesis{NathanielMassiveStars,

type = {phdthesis},

title = {{{Massive Stars Behaving Badly: Exceptional Interactions And Their Remnants}}},

author = {Nathaniel, Kaila},

date = {2025},

institution = {Rochester Institute of Technology},

location = {Rochester, NY}

}

This repository contains the following folders:

McFACTS-kaila-phd: The version of McFACTS used for Chapters 3-6. Can also be found at https://github.com/McFACTS/McFACTS/tree/kaila-phd.

movies: The movies referenced in Section 5.1.2.

simulations_bh_only: McFACTS simulations with black holes only. Unzipped size is 2 GB. Inside this folder are the following simulations:

default_run: Fiducial model

bh_smbh1e7: Model with SMBH mass set to 10^7 Msun

bh_smbh2e8: Model with SMBH mass set to 2 * 10^8 Msun

dyn_off: Model with dynamical encounters off

feedback_off: Model with BH feedback off

imf_idx_1: Model with a BH IMF powerlaw index of 1.

simulations_stars_and_bh: McFACTS simulations with stars and black holes. Unzipped size is 41 GB. Inside this folder are the following simulations:

stars_smbh1e8: Fiducial stars model

stars_smbh1e7: Model with SMBH mass set to 10^7 Msun

stars_smbh2e8: Model with SMBH mass set to 2 * 10^8 Msun

stars_imf_idx_285: Model with a stellar IMF powerlaw index of 2.85