[Mesa-users] A Few Profile Output Questions

[RICHARD H D TOWNSEND]

It's also worth having a look at figure 9 of Paxton et al. (2011) (the first instrument paper) -- to me, this is the 'authoritative' statement on where variables are defined.

cheers,

Rich

> On Jul 5, 2018, at 1:38 PM, Aaron Dotter via Mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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