[mesa-users] using set_uniform_initial_xa_from_files

Josiah Schwab jwschwab at berkeley.edu
Sat Oct 31 18:23:21 EDT 2015


Hello David,

> Second, I’m confuse about the value that I should use to specified the
> composition.  Should I use the chemical fraction relative to total
> mass (like X, Y and Z) or should I use the Z_frac convention (relative
> to H=12)?  The option are unclear about this.

This expects a list of mass fractions (so like X, Y, Z).

http://mesa.sourceforge.net/star_job_defaults.html#set_uniform_xa_from_file

Josiah




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