SKIRT -- an advanced radiative transfer code FitSKIRT -- automated reverse radiative transfer © Astronomical Observatory, Ghent University For more information, please visit the official SKIRT home page at <http://www.skirt.ugent.be>. Licensing --------- This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License version 3, as published by the Free Software Foundation. A copy of this license can be found in the file LICENSE.txt provided with the program, or at <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details. Third-party libraries --------------------- This program includes source code from the following third-party libraries: - CFITSIO developed by NASA's HEASARC; see <http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/fitsio/fitsio.html>. - Voro++ described in Rycroft (2009, Chaos, 19); see <http://math.lbl.gov/voro++/>. - GAlib described in Wall (1996, PhD thesis); see <http://lancet.mit.edu/ga/GAlib.html>. Please refer to the original licensing conditions for each of these third party software libraries. Citations --------- If you use (portions of) this program in your work, please cite one or more of the following papers. SKIRT: - Camps & Baes (2015, Astronomy and Computing, 9, 20): SKIRT: An advanced dust radiative transfer code with a user-friendly architecture. - Baes et al. (2011, ApJS, 196, 22): Efficient Three-dimensional NLTE Dust Radiative Transfer with SKIRT. - Baes et al. (2003, MNRAS, 343, 1081–1094): Radiative transfer in disc galaxies - The observed kinematics of dusty disc galaxies. - Camps et al. (2013, A&A, 560, A35): Using 3D Voronoi grids in radiative transfer simulations. - Saftly et al. (2014, A&A, 561, A77): Hierarchical octree and k-d tree grids for 3D radiative transfer simulations. - Saftly et al. (2013, A&A, 554, A10): Using hierarchical octrees in Monte Carlo radiative transfer simulations. FitSKIRT: - De Geyter et al. (2013, A&A, 550, A74): FitSKIRT - genetic algorithms to automatically fit dusty galaxies with a Monte Carlo radiative transfer code. - De Geyter et al. (2014, MNRAS, 441, 869–885): The distribution of interstellar dust in CALIFA edge-on galaxies via oligochromatic radiative transfer fitting. Contact ------- We invite you to freely use SKIRT and FitSKIRT under the terms described above. We're also open to cooperation on selected projects. Please find our contact information at <http://www.skirt.ugent.be>.