[mesa-users] Overflowing initial model for binary systems

Pablo Marchant pamarca at gmail.com
Tue Jul 18 15:56:41 EDT 2017


Hi Talha,

can you provide your zams models as well to avoid having to recompute them?

On Jul 18, 2017 1:57 PM, "Talha Irfan" <talhairfan at gatech.edu> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been using MESA to investigate population II and III stars by
> controlling this intial_z value for singular stars. This was working fine
> until I moved to the binary case, where I used the second set of
> instructions from this
> <https://sourceforge.net/p/mesa/mailman/message/34896105/> post to create
> my own ZAMS model with certain initial_z values, then matching that in the
> inlists from the binary work folder.
>
> I've been having problems trying to evolve the system, even if I set
> evolve_both_stars to false (after initially trying true). The first
> termination code read "Terminate because of overflowing initial model", so
> I tried increasing the initial period as some users had suggested, and
> later tried setting ignore_rlof to true, both of which resulted in failure
> to find a suitable model. I'm not really sure where to go from here, so
> I've attached my inlists (the only ones I edited) and the
> inlist_zams_specification I used. I'd greatly appreciate any help with this.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Talha Irfan Khawaja
> Physics '19
> Georgia Institute of Technology
>
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