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This page discusses aspects of these reaction network Jacobians. This page discusses aspects of the MESA Jacobians. Code for the reaction networks is here, and MESA can be obtained here.

13 isotope alpha-chain	19 isotope alpha-chain
torch 47 isotopes	torch 76 isotopes
torch 127 isotopes	torch 200 isotopes
torch 487 isotopes	block tridiagonal
MESA's 3 zone structure