[Mesa-users] Question about magnitudes in RSP

[Jeremy Sakstein]

Thank you so much Rob. That worked!

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 1:29 PM Rob Farmer <r.j.farmer at uva.nl> wrote:

> Hi
> There are different outputs available, log_lum in the log of the
> luminosity in the filter band in erg/s so 36 (10**36 ~ 100Lsun) seems
> reasonable for a star (though the documentation does say its in lsun units
> so i need to update the documentation) .
>
> See http://mesa.sourceforge.net/star_job_defaults.html#Color_Files for
> controls over which bands can be loaded
> and look in the default history_columns file for information on different
> outputs possible.
>
> You probably want the absolute magnitude of the star? in which case add
> abs_mag V to your history file. Then you should have output in the
> history.data of abs_mag_v
>
> Rob
>
> On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 at 09:16, Jeremy Sakstein <sakstein at sas.upenn.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I am trying to get MESA to output the V and I band magnitudes for RSP to
>> the history file. I found these in the history_columns.list:
>>
>> log_lum_band V
>> log_lum_band I
>>
>> but after grepping that is the only place I find them. When I plot them
>> for the Cepheid RSP test_suite case I get numbers of order 36 for both. I
>> was expecting numbers around -3.5 with variations of order 0.5. At leads
>> this is what seems to be the case for this paper:
>> https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2041-8205/768/1/L6/pdf, which
>> I think studies the same star.
>>
>> Can someone tell me precisely what these quantities are? And how they are
>> related to the quantities in this paper.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>
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