[Mesa-users] Having difficulty with RLOF (due to MB) initial starting age in LMXB

[Frank Timmes]

dear sanskar,

wait several days for the current maelstrom to subside.

there have been many changes between 11701 (may 2019) and r25.12.1. i'm not surprised there may be differences. finally, most users or developers cannot easily run 11701 without the extra effort needed to assure the same 11701 run time environment.

fxt




> On Apr 30, 2026, at 1:43 PM, Sanskar <sanskarchauhantifr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi frank,
> 
> Thank you for the clarification -- I wasn’t aware of the practical size limits and appreciate you pointing this out. I understand the issue now and will make sure to keep attachments within limits or share files via a link in the future.
> 
> Please let me know if you would like me to resend the material in a more suitable format.
> 
> Best regards,
> Sanskar
> 
> On Fri, 1 May 2026, 1:40 am Frank Timmes, <fxtimmes at gmail.com <mailto:fxtimmes at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> dear sanskar,
>> 
>> most major email providers (gmail, yahoo, icloud) cap total email size — including attachments at 20-25mb. microsoft 365, depending on admin configuration, can support up to 150mb. to account for encoding overhead, a 10–20 mb limit is considered the safe, practical maximum for ensuring delivery.
>> 
>> your ~29mb message to mesa-users easily exceeded these common limits, causing many bounce notifications to the mesa-user admins and a generally undeliverable message.
>> 
>> what you could, should, have done is provide a url to the niang et al article while also ensuring that sum of the mesa files were well under standard email limits.
>> 
>> fxt
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>> > On Apr 30, 2026, at 12:28 PM, Sanskar via Mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org <mailto:mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org>> wrote:
>> > 
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > I am trying to reproduce the results of the paper attached  with this email and I am having an error match in initial start age of First RLOF due to tau-boosted Magnetic  Braking(MB) — the MB is standard MESA code with extra terms containing convective turnover time . Can you help me identify the cause of this problem. I am using MESA version r25.12.1 and paper had used version 11701 and  also someone can check if whether the problem  is due to differences in MESA version. I have attached inlists, run_binary_extras.f90 and binary.data file below.<binary_history.data><run_binary_extras.f90><inlist_project><inlist1><AMXB_Paper.pdf>_______________________________________________
>> > mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org <mailto:mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org>
>> > https://lists.mesastar.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-users
>> > 
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