Fitting Observed Abundances to Metals from Supernovae (FOAMS)

The FOAMS program takes a user input of abundance observations from celestial objects
and fits those abundances using simulated nucleosynthesis models from supernovae and
AGB stars. The fitted parameters are the amount of star formation and ratio of Type-Ia to
core-collapse supernovae.The fraction of stars between 1 and 8 solar masses that have
become Type-Ia supernovae is also returned. Fits to the input data are performed for all
possible combinations of user-selected sets of models for Type-Ia supernovae,
core-collapse supernovae, and AGB stars. This allows for comparisons between different
simulations of metal production.