[Mesa-users] Gravitational darkening

Aaron Dotter aaron.dotter at gmail.com
Tue Dec 26 18:39:46 EST 2017


Hi Adrian,

This may be of interest:

https://github.com/aarondotter/GDit

Part of this is also implemented in MESA but I'm not sure if it has made it
to a public release yet.

Aaron




On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 4:59 PM Adrian Ayala <aayala at ugr.es> wrote:

> Hi, everybody!
> I'm trying to implement the gravitational darkening effect in
> fast-rotating stars. My goal is to obtain the temperature and luminosity
> distributions on the surface
> of those stars. I read something about this topic in the documentation
> of one of the MESA summer schools, but I don't know if is there a more
> detailed information or even a code available elsewhere. Any suggestion?
> Thank you in advance.
> Adrián.
>
> --
> Adrian Ayala
> ---------------------
> PhD in Space Science and Astrophysics
> Dep of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics
> University of Granada
>
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