Published May 15, 2023 | Version MESA r12778, GYRE 6.0.1

Example input files for Wolf-Rayet star models in paper "Tidal Spin-up of Black Hole Progenitor Stars"

  • 1. Caltech

Description

The files here show example input files for the models in the paper "Tidal Spin-up of Black Hole Progenitor Stars" by Ma & Fuller (2023).

File "inlist_MS" and "inlist_WR" show MESA inlists to set up a Wolf-Rayet star model of 10 solar-masses (model 3 in Ma & Fuller 2023, Table 1).
We used MESA version r12778 for our calculation.
Specifically, "inlist_MS" starts a stellar model at zero-age main-sequence (ZAMS), and evolves it to the end of core hydrogen depletion.
After resuming the model from a photo file, "inlist_WR" turns on artificial mass-loss ("relax_mass" and "new_mass") to remove its hydrogen envelope, and then evolves the model throughout the helium burning Wolf-Rayet phase, until the end of core helium depletion.
During this phase, pulsation data are also created by MESA ("write_pulse_data_with_profile = .true.").


File "gyre.in" is an example GYRE input file to solve for oscillation modes in the established Wolf-Rayet star models.
We used GYRE version 6.0.1 for our calculation.

Files

WR_star_inputs.zip

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