[Mesa-users] the certain mass range to use inlist_massive_defaults

Bill Paxton paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu
Thu Aug 9 11:21:11 EDT 2018


and 2 thumbs up from me for Warrick’s use of the test suite to get insight into how something is being used in practice.

that’s my recommendation for learning how to use mesa. 

cheers
bill



> On Aug 9, 2018, at 8:17 AM, Josiah Schwab via Mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
> 
> Put differently, don't use `inlist_massive_defaults` in a given mass range 
> just because the test suite does.
> 
> Agreed.  inlist_massive_defaults is a helpful guide to MESA options that are important/useful for evolving stars in the rough mass range ~10-100 Msun.  It is by no means a definitive set of options/values for all models/applications, even for the specific masses exercised in the test_suite.
> 
> Josiah
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