[Mesa-users] Modeling Double Degenerates

[Khan, Momin]

Hi all,

I am interested in modeling a binary of two white dwarfs in MESA and am having trouble on how to start. I know there are existing test suites for evolving a pre-ms star to the WD cooling (such as 1M_pre_ms_to_wd) but I am wondering if there is something that can do this for two stars simultaneously. My first idea was to use the binary test suite evolve_both_stars, but I am not sure this is appropriate in this case. I am wanting to evolve both stars from the pre-ms, including H and He burning, and stopping the run when the WDs reach a specified lower Teff or luminosity limit. Any suggestions on finding an appropriate test suite or creating one would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Momin Khan
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Baylor Science Building E.362R.1
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