[mesa-users] [GYRE] Interpretation of xi_r

[Cyrus Zalian]

Thank you very much to you both for your answer,

(And sorry for the low level of the question)

2016-04-04 18:25 GMT+02:00 RICHARD H D TOWNSEND <townsend at astro.wisc.edu>:

> As an addendum to Alfred’s remarks: the eigenfunctions written out by GYRE
> are normalized so that the total oscillation energy (in units of GM^2/R) is
> 1. This, of course, is completely arbitrary!
>
> cheers,
>
> Rich
>
> > On Apr 4, 2016, at 8:59 AM, alfred at gautschy.ch wrote:
> >
> >
> > Apparently, my answer was too convolved. To make it explicit: A xi_r
> > of 600  does *NOT* mean 600R_* displacement.  As stated in the second
> > to the last sentence of the first reply: " .. you are free to choose
> > the normalization of your solution ..."
> >
> >
> >
> >
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