[Mesa-users] magnetic breaking in hot stars

[Josiah Schwab]

>
> Thanks, Josiah. Indeed I did almost exactly what you suggested and it
> seems to work fine. Following Podsiadlowski+2002
> <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002ApJ...565.1107P/abstract>, I check
> the mass fraction "q_conv" of the convective envelope, and, if it's below
> 0.02, multiply the magnetic braking torque by a factor exp(1 -
> q_conv/0.02).
>

Great!

But yes, It might be good to add a note somewhere to the documentation
> that, as far as I can tell, the code doesn't check for a convective
> envelope by default.
>

Yep.  I'll put this on our TODO list, thanks.

Josiah
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