[mesa-users] Building pre-CCSN progenitors

[Francis Timmes]

please see the three mesa instrument papers for numerous comparisons
with what has appeared in the literature. easy links to the instrument papers 
are here http://mesa.sourceforge.net/capabilities.html <http://mesa.sourceforge.net/capabilities.html> 

fxt



> On Oct 15, 2015, at 3:23 PM, Austin Harris <austin at lbl.gov> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use MESA to evolve a star from ZAMS to just prior to core-collapse. I can do this with the inlist files provided at mesastar.org <http://mesastar.org/> for the MESA III paper (inlists_mesa3/section6_presn_ccsn_204/presn), but I'm relatively new to MESA and stellar evolution in general and I want to make sure I have at least a general idea of what I'm doing.
> 
> Other than the nuclear network, are the provided inlist files consistent with what has historically been used for massive-star evolution in the literature (e.g. Woosley & Heger 2007), or are there other significant differences?
> 
> One specific example: I've noticed that the overshooting parameters in "inlist_control" (e.g. overshoot_f_* = 0.004 and overshoot_f0_* = 0.001) are larger than what's used in the test_suite for other massive stars (inlist_massive_defaults: overshoot_f_* <= 0.001 and overshoot_f0_* = 0.0005), resulting in an overshoot of 0.003 scale heights versus 0.0005. Why the difference?
> 
> --Austin
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