[mesa-users] abundances of all isotopes

[Josiah Schwab]

On  7 May 2014 at 13:56 PDT, Bill Paxton <paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu> wrote:

>> If MESA ignores the abundances of the isotopes in
>> mesa/data/rates_data/ecapture_states.list , then how does it
>> calculate the electron capture rates? Only using the isotopes both in
>> the network and in that file? That's not clear to me...
>
> josiah is the one to answer that question.

Yes, if you want to use electron capture rates calculated that way,
those isotopes need to be in your network.

See, for example, data/net_data/nets/ecapture.net.

Best,
Josiah