[mesa-users] which file creates the reaction rates binary files?

[李二涛 <le...@sz...>]

 Dear MESA users,
 
I know that the reaction rates are stored in data/rates_data/cache as binary files. From the star/defaults/star_job.defaults file,  I also know that I am using jina_reaclib_results_20130213default2 database. So, I suppose that the binary files are created by the  jina_reaclib_results_20130213default2 file. But, after I deleted a reaction binary file and  replaced the jina_reaclib_results_20130213default2 with an empty file(just have the same file name:jina_reaclib_results_20130213default2), to my surprise, the MESA still able to create a new binary file and run successfully.
  
Now, I am wondering which file creates the reaction rates binary files when running the MESA?
 
Thanks in advance for any help that you can offer!




Er-Tao Li(李二涛)
Institute of Nuclear Technology，College of Physics & Energy, Shenzhen University
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