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

[Brian Jackson]

The large irradiation flux didn't seem to help my calculation since
that heating never really reached the deep interior.

Thanks for the responses,
Brian

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 11:20 AM Isaac Malsky <isaacmalsky at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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:
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>> 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
>>
>>
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>> 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.
>> >
>> > 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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>> >
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