Inlists used for studying the astrophysical properties of the Sirius binary system

Using mesa-r23.05.1 a study of the sirius system was performed, both as a non-interacting binary, as well as test suites that take sirius b up until the wd cooling phases in an attempt to better understand the age of the system and the limits of the progenitor mass. Additionally, we hope to put constraints on the temperature, luminosity, and white dwarf mass by comparing this simulation to HST data. Lastly, we use these models to calculate an initial to final mass relation for the system.

The inlists used have been included as well as some mod files for different metallicities and initial masses. It is split into three sections pertaining to the binary suite, and single star evolutions where we create carbon and oxygen white dwarfs for lower initial masses of sirius b, as well as a test suite that creates a neon oxygen white dwarf for larger initial masses.

The mesasdk version is from July of last year (version 23.7.3)