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HeloiseS / hoki

Bridging the gap between observation and theory
https://heloises.github.io/hoki/intro.html
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[BPASS] Meaning of Timestep #49

Closed RyotaInagaki1 closed 4 years ago

RyotaInagaki1 commented 4 years ago

What is the physical meaning of the timestep in stellar models? Thank You, Ryota Inagaki

HeloiseS commented 4 years ago

it's just a number - the stellar models don't actually record all the time steps - only the ones where something new and interesting happens! this is too avoid to have files that are unsustainably large :) You shouldn't need to use the timestep number as a user, you can just use age