Hong Shen of Nankai University and her collaborators K. Sumiyoshi (Numazu College of Technology, Japan) and H. Toki (RIKEN, Osaka, Japan) have updated their relativistic-mean field EOS tables (Shen et al. 1998a, 1998b) and are providing new tables in ASCII format that are equally spaced, have a greater range and a finer temperature mesh. The tables can be obtained from their Shen et al. EOS web page. We are in the process of incorporating these new tables into our full collapse EOS tables provided on the microphysics/EOS page.

Jim Lattimer has been so kind to agree to allow stellarcollapse.org to host his collection of observed neutron star masses. You can find it at http://www.stellarcollapse.org/nsmasses. Updates will be posted at the same location.

We have also updated the public release of the GR1D code to version 1.02, including updated radiation source terms and a number of small bug fixes.

We have had a busy and productive fall and have updated stellarcollapse.org today.

The two major things are:

• GR1D -- GR1D is a new spherically-symmetric open-source code for simulations of stellar collapse to neutron stars and black holes. The paper describing this code is O'Connor and Ott, arXiv:0912.2393. We have just submitted this paper to the special issue of Classical and Quantum Gravity for the MICRA2009 workshop. GR1D is available for download in the Codes section.
• Equation of State Tables: We are making available for the first time full EOS tables for the EOS of Lattimer & Swesty (1990) with values of the nuclear incompressibility K of 180 MeV, 220 MeV, and 375 MeV.
  In addition, we have updated our existing EOS table for the EOS of Shen et al. (1998), including a more consistent treatment of neutron and proton chemical potentials at densities below 10^7 g/cm^3. You can find and download these tables in the Microphysics section.

stellarcollapse.org is perpetually under construction, but a lot of material is already available, in particular The Gravitational-Wave Signal Catalog.

New(09/27/2009): We have updated the Microphysics section and are now providing microphysical finite-temperature equation of state tables for and routines to read and use them.