Updates for nuclear timescale mass transfer

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COMPAS rapid binary population synthesis code

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Closed ilyamandel closed 4 months ago

ilyamandel commented 4 months ago

Create a new function, CalculateNuclearMassLossRate(), to compute the nuclear mass loss rate rather than CalculateRadialExpansionTimescale(), which can be unreliable during mass transfer
Update BaseBinaryStar::CalculateMassTransfer() to use this function and to correctly evaluate m_AccretionFraction and the corresponding zetaRocheLobe

ilyamandel commented 4 months ago

Thank you, @jeffriley -- changes applied.

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