[Mesa-users] Turning Off Nuclear Fusion in 1M Star

[Madison Lyn Fitzgerald-Russell]

Hello again MESA users,

I am interested in comparing the evolution of a 1M star (using the 1M_pre_ms_to_wd test suite) with nuclear fusion turned both off and on. On, of course, is the default, but I'm having some trouble with making sure any related nuclear reactions are turned off for the "without" runs.

So far, I have tried using the
net_logTcut_lo = 15.0
command in order to turn off reactions about 10^15 K. However, my plot did not behave as expected (I've attached my inlist for this run and the plots I generated), with my supposed non-fusion run giving me almost exactly the same graph as my fusion run.

I have checked the documentation and the archive, but I am uncertain how to turn all nuclear fusion reactions off. Any suggestions for how to make sure nuclear reactions are turned off?

I'm running MESA version 10398 on a remote 64-bit Linux server.

Thank you,
Madison Fitzgerald-Russell

Doctoral Scholar Assistant
Department of Physics & The Mallinson Institute for Science Education
Western Michigan University

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