[mesa-users] How to set metallicity for a binary system

[Robert Farmer]

Hi
So the inlist_project in the binary work folder is for setting the binary
parameters. There is also the inlist1 and inlist2 files in the binary work
folder, these are what sets each stars parameters.

Rob

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Ruiz, Erick <erick.ruiz at ttu.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I know how to set the initial metallicity when evolving a single star
> (change initial_z in the inlist_project). However, I would like to evolve a
> binary for several metallicities. I tried to do the same thing as for
> single stars; I set the metallicity in the inlist_project as follows:
>
>
> initial_z = 0.02d0
>
>
>
> However, I got the following error message:
>
>
>
> Failed while trying to read binary control namelist file: inlist_project
> Perhaps the following runtime error message will help you find the problem.
>
> At line 229 of file ../private/binary_ctrls_io.f (unit = 29, file =
> 'inlist_project')
> Fortran runtime error: Cannot match namelist object name initial_z
> DATE: 2016-02-29
> TIME: 10:04:52
>
>
>
> I looked at binary_ctrls_io.f and noticed that initial_z is not included,
> unlike other parameters such as initial_period_in_days. Does this mean that
> it is not possible to change the initial metallicity of a binary? If it is
> possible, how is it done?
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Erick Ruiz
>
>
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