To determine the mass of the mass of the star you should model, use the information below according to the first letter of your last name. Then you'll use this number in your inlist_project.

A – H: Random number between 0.2 and 0.7
L – O: Random number between 0.7 and 2.0
P – S: Random number between 2.0 and 4.0
T – W: Random number between 4.0 and 10.0
X – Z: Random number between 10.0 and 30.0

After running your model and ensuring that your simulation has run to completion, open up the file "mesa.out" Near the bottom (but not AT the bottom), you should see a clear label indicating the final luminosity (in solar luminosities) and temperature (in Kelvin). You'll report both of these below.

Note that the final luminosity is written in scientific notation. For instance, you might see something like 7.02E-01 or 5.83E+03. The number after the "E" is the power of 10 to multiply the rest of the number by. So 7.02E-01 = 7.02  × 10^(–1) = 0.702, and 5.83E+03 = 5.83 × 10^3 = 5830.