[mesa-users] Evolving a pre-CV

[Jaime Villaseñor]

Hi Bill, thanks for replying.

Ok, I will try with the 'rlo' case. Is this the test you used to compare
the mass transfer rate with the one of Kolb & Baraffe?

Thank you for the advice.
Jaime


2013/6/5 Bill Paxton <paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu>

> Hi Jaime,
>
> Any luck so far?   You might start simple -- just use the "rlo" test suite
> case to model
> the evolution of the donor while treating the companion as a point mass.
> You can edit the "inlist_rlo" file to set initial masses for donor and
> companion
> and an initial binary period.  It should happily evolve the binary using
> magnetic
> braking before the gap and GR after to update the binary.  It should even
> make it through
> the period minimum and keeping going until the donor is very small (0.02
> Msun e.g.).
>
> The "binary_rlo" test case is for cases in which you really must model the
> evolution
> of both of the stars.  But if you can limit yourself to just doing one,
> then you don't
> need that added complexity.   So I suggest you start with the simpler case.
>
> Good luck,
> Bill
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jun 4, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Jaime Villaseñor wrote:
>
> > Dear mesa users:
> >
> > I want to evolve a binary system that has passed through a common
> envelope phase. The system is in a detached configuration, it is loosing
> angular momentum due to magnetic braking and gravitational radiation and
> will eventually become a cataclysmic variable.
> >
> > I have only tested some of the examples in the test_suite directory, so
> I'm not sure what parameters I should change to make this work. I tried
> with the binary_rlo routine and I modified the masses and the orbital
> period in the inlist_rlo file but it's not working.
> >
> > Any help will be much appreciated.
> > Cheers, Jaime.
> >
> > --
> > Jaime Villaseñor
> > Master's student in Astrophysics
> > Universidad de Valparaíso
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-- 
Jaime Villaseñor
Master's student in Astrophysics
Universidad de Valparaíso
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