[mesa-users] Creating a gamma Dor model

[RICHARD H D TOWNSEND]

Hi folks —

I’m interested in creating a models for gamma Dor stars, in which gravity modes are unstable due to convective flux blocking. I’ll be using GYRE to do the stability calculations; I appreciate that the convection-pulsation interaction probably needs a more-sophisticated approach than GYRE’s current method (convective freezing), but for now GYRE should suffice.

My first step is attempting to reproduce some of the gamma Dor models presented in Warner, Kaye & Guzik (2003, ApJ 593, 1049). However, try as I might, I seem to end up with models that don’t have the (relatively) thick outer convection zone reported by Warner et al.

As a specific example, I attach a MESA inlist which aims to reproduce the M=1.55 Msun model reported in Table 1 of Warner et al. Running this inlist with MESA 8118 results in a final model with the following properties:

Teff = 6927 K
L/Lsun = 6.82
Age = 1.049 Gyr

This model is somewhat cooler than the model reported in Warner et al (their Teff = 6965K), but the difference is small. The luminosity matches exactly, and the age is close (their age = 1.076 Gyr). So, it looks like I’m in the right ballpark.

However, when I look at the internal structure of the model, I’m struck by the fact that the inner edge of the envelope convection zone is at T ~ 63 kK (logT ~ 4.75), rather than the ~ 240 kK (logT ~ 5.4) reported by Warner et al. Here’s a plot of the radiative vs total flux, as a function of temperature, which demonstrates this:

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