[Mesa-users] Question about RSP and equilibrium quantities

[Bill Paxton]

are you saving history data for each step for doing the averages?

do the results change if you force smaller timesteps (by changing RSP_target_steps_per_cycle) so that you have more data points per cycle?



> On Jan 21, 2020, at 12:51 PM, Jeremy Sakstein <sakstein at hawaii.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> I did try something similar to this. I interpolated the radius as a function of phase and averaged this. This gives the same two lines but this time with a larger separation.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 10:48 AM Bill Paxton <paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu <mailto:paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu>> wrote:
> 
>> On Jan 21, 2020, at 12:39 PM, Jeremy Sakstein <sakstein at hawaii.edu <mailto:sakstein at hawaii.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>> I just tried several different averaging procedures and it seems that the two lines are still there. Maybe there really is a very low-period doubling phenomenon going on. I see this in other variables such as luminosity too.
> 
> 
> have you tried averaging by interpolating radius at evenly spaced points in time (or phase) rather than by timesteps?
> 
> b

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