[Mesa-users] Stop at RGB tip

Pavel Denisenkov pavel.denisenkov at gmail.com
Mon Nov 19 20:07:54 EST 2018


Hi Adrian,

you can use the following control option:

  ! stop when total power from reactions burning helium (in Lsun units) is > this.
    power_he_burn_upper_limit = 1d3

Pavel

> On Nov 19, 2018, at 16:06, Adrian Ayala <aayala at ugr.es> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I would like to stop some models just after the RGB tip but I didn't found this in the standard stop conditions, in the code documentation.
> 
> I wonder if were it a good criterion to stop the simulation when central helium mass fraction falls a bit (the starting of He burning). What do you think?
> 
> Thanks so much in advance!
> Best wishes,
> 
> Adrián
> 
> -- 
> Adrian Ayala
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> PhD in Space Science and Astrophysics
> Dep of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics
> University of Granada
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