Re: [mesa-users] Overflowing initial model for binary systems

[Talha I. <tlh...@gm...>]

I've attached a couple of the more recent models I've been using. The file
'z1d_2.data' is the most recent, and the one which I was testing with the
inlists from earlier.

Best,
Talha

Talha Irfan Khawaja
Physics '19
Georgia Institute of Technology

On 18 July 2017 at 15:56, Pablo Marchant <pa...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi Talha,
>
> can you provide your zams models as well to avoid having to recompute them?
>
> On Jul 18, 2017 1:57 PM, "Talha Irfan" <tal...@ga...> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I've been using MESA to investigate population II and III stars by
>> controlling this intial_z value for singular stars. This was working fine
>> until I moved to the binary case, where I used the second set of
>> instructions from this
>> <https://sourceforge.net/p/mesa/mailman/message/34896105/> post to
>> create my own ZAMS model with certain initial_z values, then matching that
>> in the inlists from the binary work folder.
>>
>> I've been having problems trying to evolve the system, even if I set
>> evolve_both_stars to false (after initially trying true). The first
>> termination code read "Terminate because of overflowing initial model", so
>> I tried increasing the initial period as some users had suggested, and
>> later tried setting ignore_rlof to true, both of which resulted in failure
>> to find a suitable model. I'm not really sure where to go from here, so
>> I've attached my inlists (the only ones I edited) and the
>> inlist_zams_specification I used. I'd greatly appreciate any help with this.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> Talha Irfan Khawaja
>> Physics '19
>> Georgia Institute of Technology
>>
>>
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