[Mesa-users] Creating a Highly Irradiated Super-Earth

[Brian Jackson]

Perfect. Thanks. That region is exactly where I was running into problems.

I managed to circumvent the issue by introducing a small central
luminosity (using L_center) to keep the interior temperature above
3500 K. That luminosity is small enough that I still get reasonable
agreement for my planetary radius, for example, with previous work
(Lopez & Fortney 2014).

I will be sure to post my codes, etc. once our publication is prepped.

Thanks for your help, all,
Brian



On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 10:45 AM Josiah Schwab <jwschwab at ucsc.edu> wrote:
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> Sorry for the late reply, I'm just catching up with this list.
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> I think Issac Malsky ran into essentially the same issue in the thread
> https://lists.mesastar.org/pipermail/mesa-users/2019-April/010071.html
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> The conclusion to that was the same as Bill's, which is that you're just hitting a limitation of the current EOS.  There's no short-term solution.
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> If you look at the attachment from the quasi-concluding message in the thread, you can see what terrible things are happening to gamma1.
> https://lists.mesastar.org/pipermail/mesa-users/2019-May/010086.html
> https://lists.mesastar.org/pipermail/mesa-users/attachments/20190501/a14773c8/attachment.pdf
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