[Mesa-users] Custom color file

Wed Mar 9 11:19:08 UTC 2022

Hi Rob,
Thank you very much for the clarification!
It works perfectly fine now.

On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 3:09 PM Rob Farmer <robert.j.farmer37 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi
> The problem is that there are non printing control characters at the end
> of the filter names:
>
>       abs_mag kepler
>       abs_mag tess
>       abs_mag gaia_g
>       abs_mag gaia_bp
>
> But not at the end of abs_mag gaia_rp which is why it never showed an
> error.
>
> You can see them by either configuring your text editor to show
> control/non-visible characters or you can use cat:
>
> cat -A history_columns.list | grep "abs_mag kepler"
>       abs_mag kepler$
>
> Where the $ means a newline
>
> So just delete any whitespace after the column name.
>
> Rob
>
>
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 at 05:45, Susmita Das <susmitadas130 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Rob,
>> Please find attached the files.
>> Thank you very much
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 4:36 PM Rob Farmer <robert.j.farmer37 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Susmita
>>>
>>> >The "custom_color_file.dat" is saved in the $MESA_DIR/data/colors_data
>>> and $MESA_DIR/colors/data directories as well as in my working
>>> directory.
>>>
>>> You only need to have a copy in your work folder. Please delete the
>>> other copies.
>>>
>>> Can you please provide the history_columns file, custom_color_file.dat,
>>> and inlists for your run.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Rob
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 7 Mar 2022 at 06:50, Susmita Das <susmitadas130 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Aaron and Rob,
>>>> Thank you very much for your reply and sorry for my late reply.
>>>> I'm using mesa-r21.12.1.
>>>> Restricting to the sub-table with Av=0 indeed did away with the warning.
>>>> However, I still get the error of bad filter name (I used the filter
>>>> names in lowercase in the filter file as well as the history file). Once
>>>> again, it shows no error regarding gaia_rp but only with the other four
>>>> filters.
>>>> [image: mesa.png]
>>>> I would be very grateful for your help.
>>>> Thank you
>>>> Susmita
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 2:33 AM Rob Farmer <robert.j.farmer37 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi  Susmita
>>>>>
>>>>> The warnings are due to having repeated teff, logg, m/h values in your
>>>>> custom bc file (not the overlap with the lcb file).
>>>>>
>>>>> For the bad column names, can you try setting the names in the filter
>>>>> file and the history file as lowercase?
>>>>>
>>>>> Rob
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 11 Feb 2022, 20:49 Aaron Dotter via Mesa-users, <
>>>>> mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Susmita,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's difficult to answer your question since you didn't state what
>>>>>> MESA version you're using.  However, I can tell you that the MIST
>>>>>> bolometric correction tables include multiple "sub-tables" with different
>>>>>> values of the extinction (Av).  So all of the Teff, log(g) values will be
>>>>>> repeated many times (one for each value of Av).  That may or may not be the
>>>>>> reason for the error you have received.  If it is, then you should restrict
>>>>>> yourself, presumably, to the first sub-table in the file, which has Av = 0.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Aaron
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 5:18 AM Susmita Das via Mesa-users <
>>>>>> mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>>> I'm trying to get the absolute magnitudes in the Kepler, TESS and
>>>>>>> Gaia passbands using MESA-RSP.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1. I get the BC tables from
>>>>>>> http://waps.cfa.harvard.edu/MIST/model_grids.html#bolometric and
>>>>>>> create a new file "custom_color_file.dat" with the header:
>>>>>>>  #Teff log_g M_div_h Kepler TESS Gaia_G Gaia_BP Gaia_RP
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The "custom_color_file.dat" is saved in the
>>>>>>> $MESA_DIR/data/colors_data and $MESA_DIR/colors/data directories as
>>>>>>> well as in my working directory.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2. In the inlist file, I include the following:
>>>>>>>           color_num_files=3
>>>>>>>       color_file_names(1) = 'lcb98cor.dat'
>>>>>>>       color_num_colors(1) = 11
>>>>>>>       color_file_names(2)='blackbody_johnson.dat'
>>>>>>>       color_num_colors(2)=5
>>>>>>>       color_file_names(3)='custom_color_file.dat'
>>>>>>>       color_num_colors(3)=5
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 3. Finally, in the "history_columns.list" file, I add the following:
>>>>>>>           abs_mag Kepler
>>>>>>>       abs_mag TESS
>>>>>>>       abs_mag Gaia_G
>>>>>>>       abs_mag Gaia_BP
>>>>>>>       abs_mag Gaia_RP
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I encounter the warning: "Warning found duplicated color data for
>>>>>>> (T, log g, M/H)" (probably because of overlapping parameter space
>>>>>>> from 'lcb98cor.dat') and the following error:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   bad filter name: Kepler
>>>>>>>  bad filter name: TESS
>>>>>>>  bad filter name: Gaia_G
>>>>>>>  bad filter name: Gaia_BP
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> (but strangely no mention of Gaia_RP) before it terminates.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> May I please know what I'm missing?
>>>>>>> Thank you!
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Dr. Susmita Das
>>>>>>> Department of Physics & Astrophysics
>>>>>>> University of Delhi, Delhi - 110007
>>>>>>> +91-8373975203
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>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Dr. Susmita Das
>>>> Department of Physics & Astrophysics
>>>> University of Delhi, Delhi - 110007
>>>> +91-8373975203
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Susmita Das
>> Department of Physics & Astrophysics
>> University of Delhi, Delhi - 110007
>> +91-8373975203
>>
>

-- 
Dr. Susmita Das
Department of Physics & Astrophysics
University of Delhi, Delhi - 110007
+91-8373975203
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