[mesa-users] MESA opacity tables

[Bill Paxton]

On Mar 11, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Jason Wright wrote:

> Thanks for all of that!  That helps a lot.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Bill Paxton <paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> If you decide to spare your class the experience of directly accessing the tables, you might just use the mesa/kap library instead.
> 
> I still haven't figured out how to do this myself.  We are using a variety of languages (IDL, Python) and I haven't found a good source of documentation on how to call and manipulate the stand-alone modules from other programs that aren't written in F90.

i understand.  we haven't provided cross-language interfaces, and it isn't trivial, as you know.    

-b



>   So for now, we're letting star output examples of ZAMS stars and comparing their structure to our "toy" models using the recipes in Kippenhahn and Weigert.
> 
> For instance, the net module requires initialization, and I haven't figured out how to make the initialization persist across multiple calls to net from IDL (when my external call completes, the process dies and the initialization in RAM disappears). 
> 
> If there is a good source of information on how to call these modules I would be eager to read it!



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> Jason T Wright
> Assistant Professor of Astronomy 
> 525 Davey Lab
> The Pennsylvania State University
> University Park, PA 16802
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> http://astro.psu.edu/~jtwright/

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