Bibcode
Allende-Prieto, C.; Apogee Team
Bibliographical reference
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #225, #422.07
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2015
Citations
8
Refereed citations
7
Description
FERRE is a data analysis code written in FORTRAN90. It matches models to
data, taking a set of observations and identifying the model parameters
that best reproduce the data, in a chi-squared sense. Model predictions
are to be given as an array whose values are a function of the model
parameters, i.e. numerically. FERRE holds this array in memory, or in a
direct-access binary file, and interpolates in it to evaluate model
predictions. The code returns, in addition to the optimal set of
parameters, their uncertainties, covariances, and the corresponding
model prediction. The code is used at the core of the APOGEE Stellar
Parameters and Chemical Abundances Pipeline, and it is now publicly
available.