[Mesa-users] Help for understanding

Josiah Schwab jwschwab at ucsc.edu
Mon Mar 29 17:37:45 UTC 2021


Hi Marcel,

I've only been using MESA for a short time, so I still have a few problems
> with understanding. What does the line do:
>
> use_eps_mdot = .true.
>
> Unfortunately I have not found anything about it.
> Maybe that's a very stupid question.
>

This accounts for the energetics when the stellar mass is adjusted.

For a description, see Section 3 of Paxton et al. (2019).

Josiah
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