[Mesa-users] Modeling a Low-Mass Gas-Rich Planet

[Brian Jackson]

Thanks for the response. Are there any troubleshooting flags or output
capabilities in MESA I can use to track down exactly where the code is
hanging up?

Brian

On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 8:20 PM Howard Chen <hwchen at bu.edu> wrote:
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> Hi Brian,
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> Thanks for looking at our paper. We have indeed encounter issues at some combination of initial planets mass and planet core mass and/or irradiation. We don't have a solution for them yet. I'd suggest trying a different combination of planet mass + core mass.
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> Btw, I should note that the version of our code posted on Mesa markplace is significantly out of date. I can send you a more updated version that also works with python 3 if you'd like.
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> I can also try to looking at any other problems you may encounter along the way.
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> Best,
> Howard
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> Best,
> Howard
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> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019, 6:49 PM Brian Jackson <bjackson at boisestate.edu> wrote:
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>> Dear MESA Users,
>> I'm trying to replicate some results from Chen & Rogers (2016 -
>> https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...831..180C/abstract), but
>> I'm having trouble.
>>
>> I can successfully create the initial gas ball for the planet, but
>> when I try to insert a core, the code runs for a while and then seems
>> to hang when the core reaches about 0.2 Earth mass. I've attached a
>> text file showing the last several lines that keep repeating over and
>> over again.
>>
>> I am running MESA version 11701 on Mac OS 10.13.1 (17B1003), and I
>> believe I'm using the MESA SDK from August 30 2019 (gfortran --version
>> returns "gcc.exec (GCC) 8.3.0"). I have attached the .mod file
>> representing the initial gas ball and the inlist I'm using to insert
>> the core.
>>
>> (And apologies in advance for forgetting something in my e-mail or
>> sending the wrong files -- I give it 50-50 odds.)
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>> Brian
>>
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