[Mesa-users] A Few Profile Output Questions

Aaron Dotter aaron.dotter at gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 14:38:13 EDT 2018


Hi Evan,

The answers to all of your questions are provided in
mesa/star/defaults/profile_columns.list.  Please have a read through that
file and then, if you have further questions, feel free to ask.

Cheers,
Aaron



On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 2:35 PM Evan Cook <emc39 at students.calvin.edu> wrote:

> Dear MESA users,
>
>
> My name is Evan Cook, and I am working with a team of researchers using
> MESA. We have a few questions about the MESA output profiles. Is the radius
> reported for a given shell the inner radius, outer radius, or average
> radius of that shell? Is the mass reported for a given shell the mass of
> the star within the inner boundary of the shell or the mass of the star
> within the outer boundary of the shell (thus including the mass of the
> shell itself)? Lastly, is the density reported for a shell the density at
> the inner boundary, the outer boundary, or is it the average density of the
> shell?
>
>
> -Evan
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