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Appendix A: Tables containing evolutionary data

The evolutionary properties for all evolutionary models calculated. They are given as Tables A1-A24 (A1-A12 for the (canonical) case "C'' without diffusion and A13-A24 for case "D'', the one including diffusion in the same form as Table A1 (which is the table for the C-case composition $(Y,\,Z)=(0.20,\,0.0001)$). The columns relate to:

1.

age (in 10⁹ years);

2.

$\log L/L_\odot$;

3.

$\log T_{\rm eff}$;

4.

central helium abundance $Y_{\rm c}$ or relative mass of the hydrogen-exhausted core, $m_{\rm hc}$; the switching between the two quantities is easily recognizable by the jump from a number close to 1 to one of order 0.2;

5.

surface helium abundance $Y_{\rm s}$;

6.

$m_{\rm ce}$, the location of the bottom of the convective envelope in relative mass coordinate; $m_{\rm ce}=1.0$ corresponds to a convective envelope of thickness $< 10^{-4} M_{\rm r}/M$ or to a completely radiative envelope. In a few cases, the very last model exhibits already a convective shell in the helium flash region. In these cases, this column gives the bottom of this inner convective region and the value listed is of order 0.2 or smaller;

7.

relative mass of the convective core, $m_{\rm cc}$.

The tables are an extract of the full evolutionary results, such that sufficiently, but not too many time-steps are provided. They contain the most important stages, like ZAMS, turn-off and tip of the RGB. The complete set of data can be obtained from the authors on request.

Tables A1-A24