Wind_heating.extra_luminosity

This options allows the user to determine the shock factor. The shock heating is defined initally as a luminosity to be added to wind but is immediately converted to a luminosity per unit volume. Since nearly all systems that we are dealing with have a star, we initialize the amount of extra heating as a fraction of the stellar luminosity. See cooling.c shock_heating.

This is a very special option put in place for modelling FU Ori stars, and should be used with extreme caution. The default value is calculated as a function of the star’s radius and temperature.

Type

Double

Units

ergs/s

Values

Greater than 0

File

setup.c

Parent(s)