Population Models of Rotating Field Stars in Kepler

Model populations are constructed using TRILEGAL galaxy models coupled to YREC stellar evolutionary models and a magnetic braking law, and are described in van Saders, Pinsonneault, & Barbieri, "Forward Modeling of the Kepler Stellar Rotation Period Distribution: Interpreting Periods from Mixed and Biased Stellar Populations," 2019, ApJ, 872, 128 and updated in Hall et al. 2021 (Nature Astronomy, 5, 707) to incorporate the Berger et al. 2020 (AJ, 159, 280) Kepler Stellar Properties Catalog. 

Two model populations are provided: one in which rotation is modeled with a "standard" magnetic braking law of the form in van Saders et al. 2013, and a second in which stars are subject to weakened magnetic braking past a critical Rossby number, Rocrit. 

Models can be unpacked with the hdf with pandas functionality, using key='sample'. The keys should be self-explanatory with the possible exception of "evo", which is the evolutionary state. Choose evo = 1 to select only the main sequence.

If you use these models in your work, please cite van Saders et al. 2019, with an additional citation to Hall et al. 2021 appreciated.