The star formation/supernova feedback implemenation was translated from Gasoline by Greg Stinson. Note the following differences from the Gasoline implementation that has been in common use from 2006 through 2010. N.B. In all of the following, the definition of "metals", "Oxygen" and "Iron" are not clear, and this may be the origin of some of the noted differences. E.g., does "Oxygen" refer to the mass of O16 in particular or the mass of all the alpha elements. * Upon reading a tipsy file which only has "metals", the division of metals between "Oxygen", and "Iron" is 95% and 5% respectively, whereas in Gasoline this division was 75% and 25%. The 75%/25% in gasoline was a rather random guess. 95%/5% is also incorrect. The real answer lies somewhere inbetween. It seems sensible to put the oxygen/iron abundances to the solar value. If you follow this stuff, that ratio has changed dramatically over the last 10 years from 0.84/0.12 from Anders + Grevesse (1989) to 0.58/0.13 in Asplund et al. (2005?). See the review by Asplund et al. (2009). The trouble is that our SNII yields are based on the former, though it might be nice to use the latter. So, Oxygen should be somewhere between 81% and 87%. * SNIa eject all their mass in "metals", whereas Gasoline only ejects .76 solar masses in "metals" per supernova. SNIa models are of exploding Oxygen white dwarfs, so all the material in such an explosion is composed of "metals" (Oxygen or heavier elements). In Gasoline, Fe + O =0.63+0.13 solar masses = 0.76. Nomoto et al (1999) Table 1 states that Fe is actually 0.74 once you count up all of its isotopes. Still, the rest of the ejecta are metals, lots of Si and Ni, so this will contribute to metal cooling. * The minimum mass of binary that can go supernova is .8 solar masses, whereas in Gasoline this is 3 solar masses. The lowered limit allows SNIa's to continue happening for a very long time after star formation. * In Gasoline, mass lost in SNIa is discounted against mass lost in winds. With the lower limit to SNIa binary masses noted above, which is below the lower mass limit for winds, there can be SNIa going off and no winds. Discounting SNIa mass loss against the wind mass loss would result in negative mass loss in winds, so it is not done.