Fork of VBBinaryLensing code for calculating microlensing lightcurves, developed by Valerio Bozza. The code is freely available for download at http://www.fisica.unisa.it/gravitationAstrophysics/VBBinaryLensing.htm.
- This code has been developed by Valerio Bozza, University of Salerno.
- The root finding algorithm has been adopted from Jan Skowron & Andy Gould (http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~jskowron/cmplx_roots_sg/) and translated to C++ by Tyler M. Heintz and Ava R. Hoag.
- Any use of this code for scientific publications should be acknowledged by citations to: V. Bozza, MNRAS 408 (2010) 2188. If specifically relevant to your work, please also cite J. Skowron and A. Gould, arXiv:1203.1034
- The code is freely available to the community under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3 included in this package.
The package contains the following files:
instructions.cpp// Contains working examples and specific instructions for all functions.VBBinaryLensingLibrary.h// Header for the libraryVBBinaryLensingLibrary.cpp// Source code for the libraryESPL.tbl// Pre-calculated table for Extended-source-point-lensMakefile// A sample makefile for compiling the libraryOB151212coords.txt// Sample file with event coordinatessatellite1.txt// Sample table for satellite position (Spitzer)satellite2.txt// Sample table for satellite position (Kepler)howtopython.txt// Instructions for linking VBBinaryLensing in Python (kindly provided by Markus Hundertmark)VBBinaryLensingLibrary.i// Sample swig configuration file for PythonLICENSE.txt// GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3
!!! Please follow instructions.cpp to learn how to use all functions !!!