[Mesa-users] Light curves of binary systems

[Thomas Steindl]

Hello Kevin, 

I share your feeling that Phoebe does have a steep learning curve. In case you do not know, they offered a virtual workshop in June and the recordings and all information is still available: http://phoebe-project.org/workshops/2021june/materials <http://phoebe-project.org/workshops/2021june/materials>
So hopefully, this helps you get started.

Best,
Thomas
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Thomas Steindl, MSc
University of Innsbruck | Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics
Tel: +43 512507 52031
Mail: thomas.steindl at uibk.ac.at
Homepage: www.thomassteindl.com

> Am 05.10.2021 um 15:20 schrieb Kevin Rorke <kevin.rorke at gmail.com>:
> 
> 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
>> __________________________________________________________________
>> 
>> Thomas Steindl, MSc
>> University of Innsbruck | Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics
>> Tel: +43 512507 52031
>> Mail: thomas.steindl at uibk.ac.at <mailto:thomas.steindl at uibk.ac.at>
>> Homepage: www.thomassteindl.com <http://www.thomassteindl.com/>
>> 
>>> 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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