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

[Isaac Malsky]

That was exactly what I did too. I also found that planets that had a
significant surface flux were possible to model. Glad it worked out!

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 1:11 PM Brian Jackson <bjackson at boisestate.edu> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > Sorry for the late reply, I'm just catching up with this list.
> >
> > I think Issac Malsky ran into essentially the same issue in the thread
> > https://lists.mesastar.org/pipermail/mesa-users/2019-April/010071.html
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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
> >
> > Josiah
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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