[Mesa-users] qpmg: Quickly Plot MESA or GYRE

[Francis Timmes]

hi warrick,

nice. added a link in the add-on section of mesastar.org

fxt




> On Sep 10, 2018, at 2:01 AM, Warrick Ball via Mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> For a while I've been using a fairly simple Python script to quickly inspect my MESA (and sometimes GYRE) output files.  I've finally (I hope?) packaged it into something that the outside world might be able to use. I've dubbed it "qpmg" for "Quickly Plot MESA or GYRE".  It should work with any files that follow the format of MESA profiles/histories or GYRE summaries/eigenfunction files.  It just allows you to plot columns that are in the given files, though it should be able to work out it can use logarithms appropriately (so it'll compute `log_L` from `L` if `log_L` isn't available).
> 
> The code is hosted on GitHub [1].  It's also available through the Python Package Index (PyPI) [2] so you can install it with
> 
>    pip install --user qpmg
> 
> The script uses whatever your system calls `python` and should work with Python 2 or 3.  It only requires NumPy and Matplotlib.
> 
> Those two links and the readme provide details but, for a quick example, you can get a simple HR track with
> 
>    qpmg LOGS/history.data -x log_Teff -y log_L --flip-x
> 
> assuming `log_Teff` and `log_L` are columns in the history, which they are in the defaults.  Calling `qpmg` on a file without any further arguments will produce an error that lists the available columns.
> 
> Cheers,
> Warrick
> 
> [1] https://github.com/warrickball/qpmg/
> [2] https://pypi.org/project/qpmg/
> 
> 
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> Warrick Ball
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> University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
> W.H.Ball at bham.ac.uk
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