[mesa-users] He accreting neutron star tes suite case

[Falk Herwig]

As a start it looks as if you need to print out data in history_data with
smaller sparsity.
Falk.

On 2014-11-18, at 8:04 AM, rachkov at astro.utoronto.ca wrote:

> Hi MESA,
> 
> I am trying to reproduce, using mesa-r7184, the results from the
> documentation on the helium accreting neutron star test_suite case found
> here:
> http://mesastar.org/documentation/tutorials/neutron-star-test-cases/ns_he/view
> 
> However, I have trouble getting the logL vs time graph on page 1. In fact,
> the values for the history parameter 'log_L' I obtain are the following:
> 
> 3.62661854,  5.08638298,  5.16439649,  3.21450921,  2.23940481,
>        5.03845146,  4.58883865,  1.16276801,  4.14644074,  5.00348772
> 
> 
> This suggest there are 3 bursts. Meanwhile, the test_suite documentation
> shows there is only one, occurring after about 2 days. This brings me to
> another problem: the star_age parameter. The simulation ends at 0.7 days,
> instead of 2. Moreover, I do not get the message ‘‘gone through peak He
> burn and beyond’’ after the run is over. Instead, I get: "have finished
> required number of bursts" as final message.
> 
> I am attaching a plot of log_L vs star_age in days I made to illustrate my
> problem.
> 
> I haven't touched the original inlist_ns_he, so I am not sure why this is
> happening. If anybody can help or give an insight in what I could be doing
> wrong, it'd be very helpful.
> 
> Thank you,
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Falk Herwig
Dept of Physics & Astronomy, U of Victoria
fherwig at uvic.ca, tel: +1 (250) 721-7743