[Mesa-users] wd_ignite ignition condition

[Joe Hellmers]

Yes.  That makes sense.  

I don't have that much of a time constraint, so that's not a big deal to me.

Perhaps a constructive way to determine which value to use the stopping
condition is to consider the luminosity of events that we think are
attributable to accreting White Dwarfs.  I'll look into that.

Thanks,

Joe

-----Original Message-----

the purpose of this test case is to show the ignition of carbon and oxygen
as an accreting white dwarf nears the chandrasekhar mass limit.

the choice of stopping at 1e8 Lsun is a) sufficient to show vigorous burning
of carbon has begun, with peak temps ~ 2e9 k, and b) completes in a time
that is reasonable for nightly runs of the entire test suite. there is no
magic in 1e8 Lsun, one could have equally well chosen other stopping
conditions for the purpose of a test suite case.

clearer?

fxt



> On Aug 1, 2019, at 6:28 PM, Joe Hellmers via Mesa-users
<mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> For the wd_ignite model under star/test_suite uses the condition of total
nuclear being 10^8 solar luminosities being the stopping condition for the
model.
> 
> Does anybody know of a reference providing the physical rationale for this
value?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joe Hellmers
> 
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