[Mesa-users] Any tips on making a brown dwarf?

[Earl Bellinger]

Hi mesa-users,

When I try to run a very low-mass track, for example with M=0.05, MESA
crashes after a couple hundred models (~300,000 years):

hydro_newton_step failed to accept
...
terminated evolution: cannot find acceptable model
termination code: min_timestep_limit

I have not changed much in the inlist besides the initial mass.

I have tried several versions of MESA and also tried running the brown
dwarf test suite, but to no avail.

Any tips here?

Best regards,
Earl Bellinger
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