[Mesa-users] Problem with mass transfer rate for massive donors accreting onto a BH.

[Elena Ambrosi]

I've already made some tests for the timesteps, and thought the combination
I was using were ok, I'll try further.

Thank you,

Elena

2018-04-29 6:13 GMT+02:00 Francis Timmes <fxt44 at mac.com>:

> have you tried reducing the timestep?
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> http://mesa.sourceforge.net/binary_controls_defaults.html#
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> > On Apr 27, 2018, at 7:27 AM, Elena Ambrosi via Mesa-users <
> mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
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> > Dear MESA users,
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> > I am running some binary systems with a massive donor and a massive BH.
> I am using the MESA version 10108.
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> > I gave a look at some inlists from the summer schools page and adapted
> them for my purpose (i.e. Marchant 2017, De Mink 2017, Phinney 2015).
> > The runs seem to perform well for  donor masses up to 12 Msol.
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> > For higher donor masses, in the range 15-25 Msol, the evolution of the
> mass transfer is not smooth at the end of the case A mass transfer phase.
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> > Moreover, the more massive the donor, the more enhanced this effect is.
> > Changing 'varcontrol_target_case_a' and 'varcontrol_target_case_b''
> diminishes the oscillation in the mass transfer, but the problem persists.
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> > Can someone please help me to understand if something important is
> missing in my inlists ot if this is the expected behaviour for a massive
> donor star?
> > Enclosed, please find the inlists relative to one of the aforementioned
> runs and a plot describing the problem.
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> > Thank you in advance,
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> > Elena
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