[mesa-users] EOS / Gamma_1 derivatives

[RICHARD H D TOWNSEND]

Hi Earl —

My understanding is that these fields are used to explore how asteroseismic kernels are sensitive to changes in the helium abundance. But, as you have noted, MESA doesn’t write meaningful data to them (and GYRE doesn’t use them).

Do you actually need these data, or were you concerned that they didn’t make sense?

cheers,

Rich

> On Nov 27, 2016, at 3:18 PM, Bill Paxton <paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Nov 27, 2016, at 12:49 PM, Earl Bellinger wrote:
> 
>> In the specification of the FGONG file format [1, section 2.1.3],
>> model variables 26-28 are to contain derivatives of \Gamma_1 with
>> respect to density, pressure, and helium abundance, respectively;
>> with, in each case, the other two unused variables being held
>> constant.
> 
> Hi Earl,
> 
> Good to hear you are plugging away.  It seems you've turned up an error of omission in mesa's FGONG output.
> 
> You can see it in star/private/pulse_fgong.f90 in subroutine get_fgong_data.
> 
> The code carefully sets the variables as expected, but it jumps from 25 to 29 neatly skipping over the ones you want.
> 
> Then in subroutine write_fgong_data it writes out uninitialized values for those missing entries - hence the results you see.
> 
> Rich Townsend is the one for you to talk to about this to see if there is a simple fix.  
> 
> Good luck,
> Bill
> 
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