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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
We are now seeing a new generation of stellar models based on the recent opacity tables by Rogers and Iglesias (1992). Various changes in other important physical ingredients like nuclear reaction rates, convection parameters, mass loss rates, helium/metal ratios, relative abundances of heavy elements etc. are also included. Besides the Sun the most obvious objects for confrontation of the new grids with observations are binary components, pulsating stars, and well-studied open and globular clusters. Among these candidates the detached, double-lined eclipsing binaries play a unique role as our only source of absolute dimensions which 1) can be considered valid for single stars and 2) are accurate enough for serious tests of the input physics of modern stellar models.