[mesa-users] Lithium depletion in MESA

[Bill Paxton]

just to follow up on Pablo's reply, you might want to take a look at star/test_suite/cool_brown_dwarf.

it runs a 0.05 Msun model and gives depletion histories like these:
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try modifying the inlist to increase the mass to get significant Li burning.  e.g., here's for 0.15 Msun:
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you can compare these to Fig 17 in the 1st instrument paper:
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-b


 
On Apr 9, 2014, at 6:06 AM, Marc Schaeuble wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> I'm fairly new to MESA and have been trying to use it to model lithium depletion in stars. Unfortunately, I have not been able to get MESA to output or track lithium abundances. So far, I've added 'li6' and 'li7' to the appropriate places in my profile_columns and history_columns files, but MESA consistently gives me lithium abundances of 0 in my history.data file. 
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> Is there some reaction network or something similar that needs to be included in my inlist so that MESA will track surface lithium abundances?
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> Thanks, 
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> Marc
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