[mesa-users] Additional profile_column fails to graph in pgstar

[Evan Bauer]

Hi Michael,

 

I ran into a similar problem a few months ago. As far as I can tell, MESA does not currently have the ability to plot user-defined profile columns live in pgstar. It seems that pgstar plotting of profile objects is strictly limited to the set of profile elements found in star/defaults/profile_columns.list. You need not necessarily record an element of that list to plot it in pgstar, but it has to be one of the items found in that file for MESA to know what you want it to try to plot.

 

Pgstar does seem to do just fine in plotting user-defined history columns, but I think the handling of these objects is somewhat different, since in the case of history columns I believe you need to be recording a column in order to plot it.

 

Of course you can always resort to recording your “specific_entropy” and plotting it yourself when your run is complete. That’s what I ended up doing in my case, since live pgstar plotting is never strictly necessary. I agree that it would be convenient to have that option though. Perhaps there is some workaround of which I am not yet aware?

 

Cheers,

Evan

 

From: Michael Medford [mailto:michaelmedford at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 8:24 PM
To: mesa-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [mesa-users] Additional profile_column fails to graph in pgstar

 

Hello,

 

I have followed the tutorials and with some help from a colleague, successfully added a profile_column to my run_star_extras.f (attached). It is called specific_entropy and it is quite simply defined. I'm hoping to advance to more complicated variables once I've got this kind figured out.

 

When examining my profiles.data (attached), I can clearly see that the variable is properly calculated. And yet when I try to call this profile_column in a Profile_Panels from inlist_pgstar (attached), I receive the following error:

 

failed to recognize item for profile columns: specific_entropy

bad other yaxis for Profile panels plot specific_entropy

 

Is there something that I am not understanding about how Profile_panels is fed information? I thought that it read the profiles.data and printed out the recorded values. Any help in explaining this error would be really appreciated.

 

Thanks!

~Michael

 

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