[Mesa-users] Clarification on Some Outputs

[Evan Bauer]

Hi Sarah,

Somebody with more expertise on rotation than me will hopefully be able to chime in, but I you should be able to get a good start by reading

section 6 in the second MESA instrument paper: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJS..208....4P <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJS..208....4P>
section 4 in the fifth instrument paper: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019arXiv190301426P <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019arXiv190301426P>

In particular, that latter reference has some nice figures that should help answer your question about how oblate the star gets.

Cheers,
Evan

> On Apr 5, 2019, at 4:19 PM, Sarah Whitten <smw42 at students.calvin.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
>  
> I’m running a rotating star model and have some questions about the types of radius and temperature outputs I’m getting.
>                 For radius: Is it the equatorial radius, polar radius, or volume sphere radius?
>                 For temp: Is it the surface temperature or something else?
>  
> Is there any output that can show how oblate the star gets due to its rotation? And finally, is the star’s angular velocity constant?
>  
> Thank you,
>  
> Sarah Whitten
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