                Release Notes for Starburst99 for Windows, v6.0.3

                                    30 November 2011

                  Claus Leitherer & Julia Chen (STScI, Baltimore)

v5.1.1: Fixed a bug in the common "nucleo": added tmass. This caused erroneous results in the yields subroutine in some cases.
v6.0.0: Added Subroutine ifaspec. Fully supports generation of theoretical UV spectra with the WM-Basic library. 
v6.0.1: Updated the subroutine "nucleo", which calculates the chemical yields. The revised version attempts to account for SN yields of stars with masses > 40 M in an approximate way. 
v6.0.2: Included mass loss in the AGB phase of the 5 and 7 M tracks. 
v6.0.3: Replaced mods008.dat, mods004.dat, mods0004.dat, modp008.dat, modp004.dat, modp0004.dat. Original files had incorrect mass-loss rates at the youngest ages.      


A. Contents of this zip file:

1) Release notes (this file)
2) setup.exe (Windows set up launcher)
3) setup.msi (Windows installer)


B. System requirements

- Windows 2000, XP, or Vista
- Pentium III (or equivalent) or higher
- at least 512 MB of memory
- at least 5 GB of free disk space
- Microsoft .NET Framework v2.0 or higher installed (free download from Microsoft)

Note to non-US users: The "Regional and Language Options" must be selected in such a way to support a "." as a decimal point and a "," as a delimiter. This is the default in the English language setting. If the chosen language setting does not support this format, several input fields will not be read correctly.  


C. Instructions for installation

- extract the contents of the zip file to a temporary folder
- launch the installer by clicking on setup.exe
- the installer will then guide you through the installation process
- all relevant files will be located in a subfolder called Starburst99

Note to Vista users: The program writes all output to a subfolder of the Starburst99 root folder, whose default location is in the Program Files folder. If the PC user has Administrator privileges and UAC (User Access Control) is not enabled, no further action is required.

If the user does not use Administrator privileges and/or has UAC enabled, Vista will place the output files into a folder called "VirtualStore" (User Name\AppData\Local\VirtualStore) where they can be accessed as usual. If this is undesirable, the following options exist:
1) Run Starburst99 with Administrator privileges and disable UAC
                 or
2) Choose a destination folder outside "Program Files" during installation. 



D. Description of the installed files

The Starburst99 folder contains the Fortran soure code (galaxy.f) and the executable which was generated from the source code (galaxy.exe). It is not necessary to have a Fortran compiler installed for the executable to run properly. The source code can be useful for helping understand how Starburst99 works. However, if a Fortran compiler is installed on the host computer, users may wish to tinker with the source code, generate a revised executable and replace the original galaxy.exe. Nothing else needs to be changed for the installation to work.

There are various auxiliary files in several folders. These files contain the spectral libraries and other information that is needed by the code. The individual files are:  

mod****.dat -- 20 files containing the evolutionary models. There are 4 groups of 5 files. 1) "c" - Geneva tracks with standard mass-loss rates and chemical composition of 2x solar (040), solar (020), 0.4x solar (008), 0.2x solar (004), and 0.05x solar (001); 2) "e" - same as "c" but with high mass-loss rates; 3) "s" - Padova tracks as updated by Girardi (2000) for chemical composition 0.050, 0.020, 0.008, 0.004, and 0.0004; 4) "p" - same as "s" but with the inclusion of thermally pulsing AGB stars following the prescription of Vassiliadis & Wood (1993).
 
lcb97_***.flu -- 5 files containing the model atmospheres of Lejeune et al. They match the metallicities of the evolutionary tracks. Note that some models were interpolated from the original Lejeune set since the required metallicities were not available. 

wr_beta*.fluxes -- 2 files with the WR model atmospheres of Schmutz et al. (1992). 

CMFGEN*.dat -- 10 files containing the WR models computed by the UCL group (5 metallicities, 2 WR types). 

WMbasic*.dat -- 5 files with the Pauldrach O-star atmospheres for 5 metallicities. 

allstars*.txt -- 9 files in support of the optical high-resolution spectra. The files contain the line spectra ("flux"), theoretical continua ("cont"), and the wavelength grid ("wave") for the theoretical library of Martins et al. (2005). p03, p00, m05, and m10 indicate metallicities of twice solar, solar, 40% solar, and 10% solar. 

ifa_*.txt -- 11 files in support of the theoretical UV spectra. The files contain the line spectra ("line"), theoretical continua ("cont"), and the wavelength grid ("wave") for the theoretical library of Leitherer et al. (2010). p03, p00, m04, m07, and m13 indicate metallicities of twice solar, solar, 40% solar, 20% solar, and 5% solar. 

sp.dat -- IUE spectral library of O, B, and WR stars used in the subroutine linesyn. This library is also available (in a more readable form) via the CD accompanying the article in PASP, 108, 996 (1996), or from our web page. 

sp_low.dat -- FOS and STIS spectral library of LMC/SMC O stars used in the subroutine linesyn. The structure is identical to that of sp.dat. All stars other than O stars are the same as in sp.dat (Leitherer et al. 2001; ApJ, 550, 724). 

fuse_high.dat -- FUSE spectral library of Galactic O and early B stars used in the subroutine fusesyn. The structure is identical to that of sp.dat. All stars other than O and early B have their continua set to 1. 

fuse_low.dat -- same as fuse_high.dat but for LMC and SMC stars. Molecular hydrogen lines were removed. The reference for both FUSE libraries is Robert et al. (2003). 

schkal.dat -- spectral-type calibration of Martins et al. (2005; A&A, 436, 1049). The table simply contains a list of log L (in solar luminosities) and log Teff (in K). Each line corresponds to a certain spectral type. 

irfeatures.dat -- contains data for the near-IR CO features at 1.62 and 2.29 microns, and the silicon feature at 1.59 microns from Origlia, Moorwood, and Oliva (1993; A&A, 280, 536). 


E. Running the program

The Starburst99 program is started by clicking on the Starburst99 icon on the desk top, from the task bar, or by clicking on the Starburst99.exe executable. This launches the Starburst99 interface whose various input fields are explained in the Help file. After the program is started, the interface window minimizes to the quick launch task bar and will reopen once the run is complete. A typical run with the default parameters will take about 30 min on a Pentium 4 class PC. 

Upon successful completion, the output files can be accessed via the interface. The validity of the results can be verified by comparison with the output on the Starburst99 web based interface at STScI (www.stsci.edu/science/starburst99). The default inputs of both the web and the PC version are the same.

 
F. Support

Most answers to user questions can be found at www.stsci.edu/science/starburst99. Limited support is provided by sending email to leitherer@stsci.edu. Be sure to register your product in order to receive news and updates.