2019/07/22 by Meridith Joyce, Lianne Lairmore, L. Lairmore +5
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Computer science #Physics #Python (programming language) #Smoothed-particle hydrodynamics #Stars #Stellar evolution #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #Supergiant #White dwarf #astro-ph.IM #astro-ph.SR
paper · pdf · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab3405
Accepted to ApJ; 14 pages, 13 figures
arxiv created 2019/07/22 · openalex publication_date 2019/09/01 · arxiv updated 2019/09/11 · openalex created_date 2020/07/16 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
Abstract We present 1D MESA2HYDRO 3D , an open-source, Python-based software tool that provides an accessible means of generating physically motivated initial conditions (ICs) for hydrodynamical simulations from 1D stellar structure models. We test 1D MESA2HYDRO 3D on five stellar models generated with the MESA stellar evolution code and verify its capacity as an IC generator with the Phantom smoothed particle hydrodynamics code. Consistency between the input density profiles, the 1D MESA2HYDRO 3D -rendered particle distributions, and the state of the distributions after evolution over 10 dynamical timescales is found for model stars ranging in structure and density from a radially extended supergiant to a white dwarf.