[Mesa-users] Cooling a CO White Dwarf

[Francis Timmes]

hi charlie,

a potential zeroth order appraoch, assuming no new physics arises, 
might be to extrapolate the hr-diagram cooling curve to the desired Teff.

fxt




> On May 27, 2021, at 6:19 PM, Josiah Schwab via Mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Charlie,
> 
> I need to see the star cool to a surface temperature of 3500K-4000K (The point where photosynthesis can no longer occur at an efficient rate).
> 
> Then you probably want to find a different stellar evolution code :)  MESA does not have the constitutive physics (eos, opacities) to support going that cool.  Your model problems almost certainly stem from that root cause.
> 
> Josiah 
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