[Mesa-users] Light curves of binary systems

[Kevin Rorke]

Hi Thomas

Thanks - that's much as I expected. I have been trying to get to grips 
with PHOEBE as a possible adjunct to my MESA evolutionary simulations 
for a while. I freely admit to finding PHOEBE much more difficult to use!

Cheers

Kevin

On 10/5/21 3:08 PM, Thomas Steindl wrote:
> Hello Kevin,
>
> MESA calculates stellar structure and evolution. If you want to find 
> evolutionary tracks that explain the stellar parameters of your stars 
> in the binary system, MESA can help. If you want to model i.e. the 
> TESS light curve of that eclipsing binary system, than MESA is the 
> wrong code to do so. In that case you should be looking into eclipsing 
> binary modelling software like Phoebe (http://phoebe-project.org/ 
> <http://phoebe-project.org/>) for example.
>
> Best,
> Thomas
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>> Am 05.10.2021 um 15:03 schrieb Kevin Rorke via Mesa-users 
>> <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org <mailto:mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org>>:
>>
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> Is it possible to use MESA to create light curves of an eclipsing 
>> binary system? In particular I'm interested in modelling a main 
>> sequence star with a white dwarf companion; a light curve would be 
>> very helpful to compare with existing observational data. Even better 
>> would be to model the accretion disk during an outburst. I've scoured 
>> the documentation but can't find anything that matches this scenario. 
>> Any suggestions or pointers?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Kevin
>>
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