Preliminaries

Why use BFORE?

• Spectral variations

• Second-order light variations

• Non-sphericity

• Eclipses

Obtaining BFORE

The source code for BFORE is hosted in the https://github.com/rhdtownsend/bfore git repository on GitHub. Instructions for downloading and installing the software can be found in the Quick Start chapter.

Citing BFORE

If you use BFORE in your research, please cite this website (a full instrument paper discussing the code is in preparation).

Development Team

BFORE remains under active development by the following team:

• Rich Townsend (University of Wisconsin-Madison); project leader

Related Links

• The Multidimensional Spectral Grids (MSG) library, which handles the spectral interpolation that BFORE relies upon.

• The MESA Software Development Kit (SDK), which provides the compilers and supporting libraries needed to build both MSG and BFORE.

Acknowledgments

BFORE has been developed with financial support from the following grants:

• NSF award AAG-2407636.