Mass taper terminology and documentation
Hi.
In the mass taper section of the Planetary System, the config.info file looks something like
Mass
{
Start 0.
Final 0.
Taper
{
Start 0
Final 0
}
}
It's not clear what the first Start
/Final
refer to, and what the second Start
/Final
refer to. The user can imagine that one refers to the starting/final time for the taper, while the other refers to the starting/final mass for the planet. However it is unclear which one is which. This information is also missing from the documentation https://disc.pages.oca.eu/fargOCA/public/configref.pdf.
Clearer names would be something like TimeStart
, TimeEnd
, and MassStart
, MassEnd
, or something like that. In the documentation it should also be clear what happens if one puts a certain mass in the planet specification, but a different mass for MassEnd
here: which value will the planet's mass have in the end? Is the planet specification overridden by the mass taper specification?
Also, wouldn't it be better to have the possibility to have different mass tapers for different planets? But maybe this is already something that we have in some version of the code?