Sinusoidal Evolution of Luminosity

Overview

Set the sStellarModel to “SineWave” to force a star’s luminosity and temperature to oscillate sinusoidally with user-defined amplitude and period.

Date

02/14/2024

Author

Rory Barnes

Modules

STELLAR

Approx. runtime

<1 second

To run this example

python makeplot.py <pdf | png>

Expected output

examples/LuminosityCycle.png

Luminosity (top), effective temperature (middle), and XUV luminosity (bottom) evolutions for the SineWave and None choices for the sStellarModel option.