Re: [mesa-users] MESA opacity tables

[Jason W. <ast...@gm...>]

Thanks for all of that!  That helps a lot.

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Bill Paxton <pa...@ki...> wrote:

> If you decide to spare your class the experience of directly accessing the
> tables, you might just use the mesa/kap library instead.


I still haven't figured out how to do this myself.  We are using a variety
of languages (IDL, Python) and I haven't found a good source of
documentation on how to call and manipulate the stand-alone modules from
other programs that aren't written in F90.  So for now, we're letting star
output examples of ZAMS stars and comparing their structure to our "toy"
models using the recipes in Kippenhahn and Weigert.

For instance, the net module requires initialization, and I haven't figured
out how to make the initialization persist across multiple calls to net
from IDL (when my external call completes, the process dies and the
initialization in RAM disappears).

If there is a good source of information on how to call these modules I
would be eager to read it!

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