Re: [mesa-users] onset of He-burning

[Aaron D. <aar...@gm...>]

Hi Maurizio,

Please take a look at logical function time_to_profile in
star/private/do_one_utils.f.  This is where the evolutionary "phase" of the
model is determined.

Aaron




On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Giannotti, Maurizio <
MGi...@ma...> wrote:

>  Hello All,
>
> I downloaded and I have been studying MESA since the beginning of the
> summer. I think it is great. I am hoping to write a paper soon with my
> colleagues in Los Alamos. I have 2 questions:
>
> 1) What is the exact criteria used by MESA to identify the onset of
> He-burning? I understand that Mesa saves a model (and gives it priority 2)
> at the onset of He-burning. Does this mean that the parameter "tri_alfa" (or
> "log_LHe") reaches a certain threshold value? If so, what?
>
> 2) It would be nice to find a list of all the criteria which MESA uses to
> give priority 2 to a model. I read in the MESA home page: "Priority level 2
> is for models saved because of some special event in the evolution such as
> the onset of helium burning". Is there somewhere a list of all these
> "special events"?
>
> Thank you very much,
> Maurizio
>
>
>
>  Maurizio Giannotti,
>
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