[Mesa-users] No mass loss secondary star binary with large nuclear network

Hannah Brinkman brinkmanhe at gmail.com
Mon Sep 27 11:13:21 UTC 2021


Heey Rob,

I would expect both stars to have a non-rlof mass loss rate of about
10^-(6-4) (when running a 40 and a 38Msun star). I am not evolving the
system far enough to get rlof from the secondary star (it is working fine
for the primary star), so I don't know whether that is working, but the
normal wind-loss from the secondary does not work for the large networks.
Because it does work with the smaller network, I am not sure the wind
prescription is the problem here. Also, the secondary is unable to accrete
mass even when I change the beta-parameter to something that should produce
accretion.

When I check the terminal output (see below), the primary star generally
has a mass-loss rate around the expected rate, 10^-4.88 in this case, but
the secondary gives a mass loss rate of 10^-99, which is pretty weird, for
the large 209-network, but both stars have a mass-loss rate of about 10^-6
for both stars when the smaller 63-network is used.

Also, I forgot to add in my earlier email, I am using mesa version 10398.
I hope this answers your question.

Cheers,
Hannah


       step    lg_Tcntr    Teff       lg_LH     lg_Lnuc     Mass
H_rich     H_cntr     N_cntr     Y_surf     X_avg     eta_cntr  zones retry
   lg_dt_yr    lg_Dcntr    lg_R       lg_L3a    lg_Lneu     lg_Mdot
 He_core    He_cntr    O_cntr     Z_surf     Y_avg     gam_cntr  iters bckup
     age_yr    lg_Pcntr    lg_L       lg_LZ     lg_Psurf    lg_Dsurf
C_core     C_cntr     Ne_cntr    Si_cntr    Z_avg     v_div_cs     dt_limit
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

        320   7.917905  2.493E+04   4.470532   4.470650  33.313714
 18.262532   0.000001   0.008622   0.280000   0.270384  -6.194855   1127
   0
   0.811019   1.402673   1.560609  -9.326081   3.308120  *-4.885319*
 15.051182   0.986340   0.000044   0.014000   0.715866   0.020675      3
   0
 4.6988E+06  17.395131   5.661272   0.904684   3.186307  -9.755941
0.000000   0.000133   0.001131   0.000640  1.375E-02  0.399E-03  max
increase


__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

       step    lg_Tcntr    Teff       lg_LH     lg_Lnuc     Mass
H_rich     H_cntr     N_cntr     Y_surf     X_avg     eta_cntr  zones retry
   lg_dt_yr    lg_Dcntr    lg_R       lg_L3a    lg_Lneu     lg_Mdot
 He_core    He_cntr    O_cntr     Z_surf     Y_avg     gam_cntr  iters bckup
     age_yr    lg_Pcntr    lg_L       lg_LZ     lg_Psurf    lg_Dsurf
C_core     C_cntr     Ne_cntr    Si_cntr    Z_avg     v_div_cs     dt_limit
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  2     320   7.689454  2.888E+04   5.586301   5.586319  35.974185
 35.974185   0.056064   0.008693   0.280000   0.360420  -6.952929    972
   0
   0.811019   0.702614   1.394861 -19.765704   4.418987 *-99.000000*
0.000000   0.930268   0.000052   0.014000   0.625772   0.017552      8
 0
 4.6988E+06  16.494141   5.585612   1.201553   3.456575  -9.525587
0.000000   0.000082   0.001141   0.000640  1.381E-02  0.120E-07  max
increase


__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

binary_step      M1+M2      separ       Porb          e      M2/M1
pm_i    donor_i    dot_Mmt        eff       Jorb      dot_J    dot_Jmb
      lg_dt         M1         R1         P1      dot_e      vorb1
 RL1    Rl_gap1     dot_M1   dot_Medd      spin1    dot_Jgr    dot_Jls
     age_yr         M2         R2         P2       Eorb      vorb2
 RL2    Rl_gap2     dot_M2      L_acc      spin2    dot_Jml  rlo_iters
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

bin     320  69.287899  1.229E+02  18.975597  0.000E+00   1.079861
 0          1 -2.052E-28  0.000E+00  9.652E+54 -6.208E+40  0.000E+00
   0.811019  33.313714  36.358769   0.000000  0.000E+00 170.243504
 45.766631 -2.056E-01 -1.302E-05  1.000E+99  0.000E+00 -9.251E+34  0.000E+00
 4.6988E+06  35.974185  24.823359   0.000000 -1.850E+49 157.653147
 47.401811 -4.763E-01  0.000E+00  0.000E+00  0.000E+00 -6.208E+40          1

Op ma 27 sep. 2021 om 13:01 schreef Rob Farmer <robert.j.farmer37 at gmail.com
>:

> Hi Hannah,
>
> Thanks for the inlists, just checking but what mass loss are you expecting
> to occur (and which isn't occurring) winds or rlof (or both)?
>
> If its the wind mass loss that is missing, then I see you have a
> other_wind routine, so if you add:
>
> write(*,*) id, w
>
> to your other wind routine, do you get output for both id=1 and id=2 (one
> for each star?)
>
> Rob
>
> On Mon, 27 Sept 2021 at 10:50, Hannah Brinkman via Mesa-users <
> mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear mesa-users,
>>
>> During one of my recent runs with a binary star in MESA, I noticed that
>> my secondary star was not losing any mass. The star is fully evolved and
>> behaves normally as far as I can see for a star of constant mass. However,
>> when I use the same inlists and run_star_extras.f file with a smaller
>> nuclear network (63 isotopes instead of 209), the star is losing mass, as
>> it should. I did another test with a network of 125 isotopes, and the
>> secondary is not losing mass for this network either.
>>
>> When I use the inlists for a single star, the star is behaving normally,
>> and also the primary star of the binary star is behaving normally. Can
>> someone explain to me what is going on with my secondary star? I've
>> attached the inlists, run_star_extras.f and the 209 isotope network.
>>
>> With kind regards,
>> Hannah
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