[Mesa-users] Kippenhahn Diagram Plot

Francis Timmes fxt44 at mac.com
Sat Jul 21 22:24:12 EDT 2018


consulting

http://mesa.sourceforge.net/pgstar_defaults.html#Kippenhahn_window

suggests adding 

! mixing regions
mixing_regions 40 

! regions of strong nuclear burning
burning_regions 80   

to your history_columns.list

fxt




> On Jul 21, 2018, at 7:03 PM, Matheus Bernini via Mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I'm an undergraduate student and I'm using MESA (9575) to study the evolution of massive stars.
> 
> I'd like to know how to make MESA show a Kipp Diagram like the one showed on http://mesa.sourceforge.net/capabilities.html (figure 2), showing convection, burning, cooling, etc . I've activated all options in &pgstar related to this diagram, but I only get this 'boring' Kippenhahn Diagram (figure 1).
> 
> Thanks
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