MESA File Format¶
Files in MESA format store ASCII text data describing a MESA stellar
model. Note that MESA itself refers to these files as ‘GYRE-format’
files; to create one of these files in MESA, set the
pulse_data_format
parameter of the &controls
namelist
group to the value GYRE
.
There are a number of versions of the MESA format, distinguished by the initial header line: