Preliminaries

Intended Audience

This manual is aimed at a broad audience — whether you’re a GYRE novice or a seasoned veteran, it provides you with the information you’ll need to get the most out of GYRE. However, it does presume some experience with Unix command-line environments, and likewise some basic familiarity with the subject of stellar oscillations. If you need the former, then the Internet is your oyster; and for the latter, we recommend the following online resources:

Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard’s Lecture Notes on Stellar Oscillations;
Gerald Handler’s Asteroseismology article.

Obtaining GYRE

The source code for GYRE is hosted in the https://github.com/rhdtownsend/gyre git repository on GitHub. GYRE is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3.

Citing GYRE

If you use GYRE in your research, please cite one or more of the relevant ‘instrument’ papers:

Townsend & Teitler (2013) describes the basic operation of the code;
Townsend et al. (2018) outlines capabilities for non-adiabatic oscillation calculations;
Goldstein & Townsend (2020) describes the contour method for finding non-adiabatic modes;
Sun et al. (2023) introduces the gyre_tides frontend for evaluating tidal responses.

If you find yourself using GYRE on a regular basis, you might consider contributing to the project to ensure its long-term success. Options include

contributing code to the project (e.g., via GitHub pull requests), to extend GYRE’s capabilities;
contributing documentation and tutorials to the project, to make GYRE more user-friendly;
inviting the GYRE team to be co-authors on relevant papers;
inviting the GYRE team to be co-investigators on relevant grant applications.

Development Team

GYRE remains under active development by the following team:

Rich Townsend (University of Wisconsin-Madison); project leader
Warrick Ball (University of Birmingham)
Earl Bellinger (MPIA Garching)
Zhao Guo (Cambridge University)
Joel Ong (Yale University)
Meng Sun (Northwestern University)

Former developers include:

Jacqueline Goldstein (MIT)
Aaron Lopez

Also, the following people have made valuable contributions toward testing GYRE:

Siemen Burssens (KU Leuven)
Timothy Van Reeth (KU Leven)

Acknowledgments

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

NSF awards AST-0908688, AST-0904607, ACI-1339606, ACI-1663696, and AST-1716436;
NASA awards NNX14AB55G, NNX16AB97G, and 80NSSC20K0515.

GYRE has also benefited greatly from contributions (code, bug reports, feature requests) from the academic community. Thanks, folks!