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degeneracy and the dominant energy loss mechanism transitions from
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radiative diffusion to optically-thin neutrino cooling.
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+ This case is discussed extensively in section 5.2 of
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+ `MESA Instrument Paper VI <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ApJS..265...15J/abstract >`__.
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+ You can run the full resolution study described in that section by
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+ using the ``rnall `` bash script, which links to different energy equation
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+ and resolution options to run through the model 12 times. This will produce
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+ the output necessary for reproducing plots like the ones below and seen in
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+ figures 9 and 10 of the instrument paper.
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+ By default, the test suite ``rn `` script runs just one of these instances:
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+ the high resolution run using the ``eps_grav `` energy equation option,
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+ which should run in a few minutes, appears reasonably converged based on the plots
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+ below, and exhibits a small cumulative energy error.
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The included Jupyter notebook (``docs/carbon_kh.ipynb ``) provides
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information about reproducing the following convergence study.
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.. image :: ../../../star/test_suite/carbon_kh/docs/carbon_kh_total_energy_history_with_rel_cum_E_err.png
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- Last-Updated: 2021-08-26 (mesa e9d467610 ) by Josiah Schwab
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+ Last-Updated: 2023-04-03 (mesa 81ad921 ) by Evan Bauer
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