[mesa-users] Zero Brunt-Vaisala freq. in outer regions of GYRE output files

Richard Townsend townsend at astro.wisc.edu
Tue Jun 10 16:07:45 EDT 2014


On Jun 10, 2014, at 3:03 PM, Bill Paxton <paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> 
> On Jun 10, 2014, at 12:40 PM, Richard Townsend wrote:
> 
>> Is there a good reason why the Brunt can’t be calculated in the atmosphere? Since the acoustic cutoff frequency depends on the Brunt, this issue is quite important.
> 
> Confusion alert....    try setting this in your &controls inlist: 
> 
>       add_atmosphere_to_pulse_info = .true.
> 
> see star/private/create_atm.f and pulsation_info.f for details.
> 
> -b
> 
> 
> 

Still confused — in store1_gyre_point (inside pulsation_info.f) the BV is explicitly set to zero. That doesn’t seem right.

cheers

R

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